More evidence of Chinese deserting Aussie property

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Via the AFR:

Chinese real estate agents are reporting a sharp drop-off in Australian sales over the past six weeks as new property taxes take effect, while others report Beijing’s tighter capital controls are also hurting demand.

…David Wang, the vice-general manger of international sales at Chinese agency 5i5j, said sales of Australian property had dropped 80 per cent in July.

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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.