Chinese property buyer rort “huge” as NSW slams door shut

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Another day, another clanging death knell for the foreign property buyer boom, from the AFR:

AFR Weekend has obtained a copy of a recent loan application in Chinese and English that bilingual lending experts said was a “ludicrously obvious forgery” for a $960,000 loan to purchase a $1.06 million Sydney apartment.

Nervous lenders are stopping lending to overseas’ borrowers because of growing evidence that thousands of similar loan applications are being processed, or could have been approved and processed.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.