Chinese flee Australian property

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The drumbeat for the developing east coast apartment bust is growing louder, via The Australian:

One in five foreign apartment buyers in Brisbane are failing to settle due to tighter restrictions on moving money out of China, according to investment bank UBS, which is also watching the prospects for foreign purchases of off-the-plan units in Sydney and Melbourne.

As many as two in five residential properties around the world bought by mainland Chinese may be vacant some or all of the time.

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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.