Let's start with this major caveat:
Foreign buyer real estate data is not good.
Not exact matches
There's little doubt that Canadian
real estate is an attractive market for
foreign buyers these days.
The levy, effective immediately, targets
foreign buyers who are flipping properties or using
real estate to park cash.
Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20
real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with
foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure»
foreign purchasers in the Canadian
real - estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»
Tim Syrianos, president of the Toronto
Real Estate Board, said the decline in activity has less to do with
foreign buyers and more to do with potential homebuyers waiting to see how the market plays out.
«Most [purchasers] are returning to Vancouver as the market is hot even with the
foreign buyer tax,» according to Parham Mahboubi, vice-president of planning and marketing at Qualex - Landmark, a
real estate development group in Vancouver.
Online searches don't always translate into sales, of course, and some in the
real estate are skeptical
foreign buyers will turn up in a big way.
The
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released the data a month after the British Columbia government implemented a 15 - per - cent tax on
foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver in an effort to chill one of the hottest markets in North America.
The luxury
real estate market has softened nationally as more ultrahigh - end buildings are coming online around the same time, with fewer
foreign buyers entering the fray.
The group that loses out the most from the sale of residential
real estate to
foreign owners is everyone who works in the Vancouver area and earns Vancouver wages, but has to try to find housing in a market distorted by
buyers who don't work in the Vancouver area and earn Vancouver wages.
We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the
real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of
foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).
Other investors such as mutual funds, ETFs,
foreign buyers, banks and
real estate investment trusts (REITs) could keep the demand for MBS high.
Now the astute observer might point out that the bulk of the decline in sales was seen in areas popular with
buyers from mainland China — which also happens to be the main region that most believe is the source of the majority of the
foreign capital flowing into our
real estate market.
Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20
real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with
foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure»
foreign purchasers in the Canadian
real estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»
Toronto's
real estate market may be cooling down due to the 15 - percent tax on non-resident
foreign buyers included in the recently implemented 16 - piont Fair Housing Plan in Ontario, reports thestar.com (1... Per saperne di più >
Countries that make is easier for
foreign property
buyers, with fewer tax regulations, are likely to attract more Asian investors, says Andrew Batt, from the PropertyGuru website, tells Singapore
Real Deal TV slot
Horgan said that the new B.C. Liberal tax on
foreign nationals will not focus on speculative investment — the activity that is distorting
real estate prices in B.C. — but rather on the citizenship of home -
buyers.
-- whatever dip in Chinese
buyer demand there isn't due to the raised
foreign buyer taxes, but rather because of its
real estate prices that are overpriced.
Vancouver has pointed its finger and told local residents (and the world) that
foreign buyers have been gobbling up homes and making
real estate prices rise in lock - step with their purchasing power.
Besides including trends in target pricing, motivation, and levels of interest between conventional and top - tier
real estate in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal, the report also notes differences in the impact of the recently introduced 15 % provincial property transfer tax on
foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver.
Government numbers earlier this week showed that the province's
foreign buyer's tax on
real estate has curbed offshore investment and hosed down a feverish Toronto region housing market.
As Donald Trump prepares to officially become the next President of the United States,
real estate experts ponder how his policies will affect
foreign buyers, reports Inman (21 November 2016)....
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foreign property
buyers is supposed to free up more housing for local first - time homebuyers, many
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Despite lending restrictions and
foreign buyers taxes, Chinese property
buyer interest in Australian
real estate is on the rise again, reports Reuters (24 November 2016).
Juwai.com Co-CEO, Andrew Taylor recently shared four top tips with
Real Estate Business on how to attract more
foreign buyers via the power of the website (20 February 2014).
«The accumulation of
real estate is an integral component of their overall investment strategy, and as such, the
foreign buyer tax is not a deterrent,» he said.
Toronto's
real estate market is rising on the back of the British Columbia 15 %
foreign buyer tax implementation, reports the Globe and Mail (17 February 2017).
Over the past year, Chinese regulators have tightened their clampdown on
foreign investment, detaining several of the country's most prolific New York
real estate
buyers, including Anbang Insurance Group's Wu Xiaohui and Fosun International's Guo Guangchang.
(Page 135): «In much of the rest of the world, it is not possible for a
foreign buyer to borrow money locally for the purchase of
real estate...»
The
real worry in the eyes of the Bank is how «sticky» those
foreign buyers are.
The number of
foreign real estate
buyers in IOUSA has increased dramatically since the late»90s.
Real estate agents will be required to market farmland worth more than $ 15 million to domestic
buyers before it can be sold to
foreign investors, under new Federal Government rules.
The more aggressive
foreign buyers are still pouring money (though down to 3 % of transactions vs 13 % at its peak) into the market, at the side of local investors (which, let's get
real, might be
foreign - owned businesses or trusts set up to avoid the transaction tax).
The Ontario government moved earlier this year to cool the Toronto
real estate market, bringing in more than a dozen measures including a 15 per cent tax on
foreign buyers.
The board says
foreign buyers represent a small part of the
real estate market and the decline has more to do with potential homebuyers waiting to see how market conditions evolve.
As the Ontario government looks at some type of
foreign buyer's tax, we have to look at not only the other factors of home price increases but also at the
real estate industry as a local economic force that provides stability and income in this era of hyper - low interest rates.
When asked about
foreign buyer activity in their area, 58 % of
real estate agents believed that less than 10 % of luxury
real estate purchases in the province were made by
foreign buyers.
He adds that the recent dip in value of the Loonie has also made
real estate investment in Canada a more attractive proposition for
foreign buyers.
The top three factors motivating
foreign buyers to buy in Ontario were: (1) a stable
real estate market; (2) a stable financial system; and (3) a stable political system.
Government statistics show declines in
real estate transactions involving
foreign nationals since the introduction of the
foreign buyers tax.
The data comes a month after the B.C. government implemented a 15 - per - cent tax for
foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver in an effort to cool down one of the hottest
real estate markets in North America.
She said the
buyers»
real estate agent won't reveal whether the clients are
foreign but has floated the idea of the couple helping to pay part of the 15 - per - cent tax.
According to theRoyal LePage Carriage Trade Luxury Properties 2016 Report, Canada's luxury residential
real estate market has seen a notable increase in
foreign buyer activity over the last 10 years, with some realtors suggesting that more than 25 % of luxury properties now purchased by
foreign buyers.
By comparison, figures released Tuesday by Vancouver's
real estate board showed a 32.6 per cent drop in sales transactions compared with September 2015 — prior to a new 15 per cent provincial tax on
foreign buyers that came into effect in August.
Last month, the Toronto
Real Estate Board released a survey of its member realtors estimating that fewer than 5 per cent of resale transactions in 2016 involved
foreign buyers.
Ontario
Real Estate Association chief executive Tim Hudak, a former leader of the provincial Progressive Conservatives, called a
foreign buyers tax the «cheap politics of division.»
«The main culprit behind rapidly rising house prices is the GTA's unbalanced market — housing supply can not meet demand — not
foreign buyers,» Tim Hudak, CEO of the Ontario
Real Estate Association, said in a statement on Thursday.
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Foreign buyers may come back: The cheap dollar could entice Americans to continue (or renew) shopping for Canadian
real estate, particularly in popular resort and vacation spots such as Canmore, Alta., Whistler, B.C., Muskoka, Ont.
The Toronto
Real Estate Board is already pushing back against the possibility of this measure, arguing
foreign buyers are a positive force in the local housing market.
Figures from the B.C. government show a drop in
real estate transactions in the Vancouver area after the provincial government brought in a 15 per cent tax on
foreign buyers last August.