How laundered money blew-up Vancouver’s housing market

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By Leith van Onselen

Late last year, Global News Canada reported that Chinese organised crime had laundered around $1 billion through Vancouver property in 2016, and $5 billion since 2012, which helped to partly explain Vancouver’s explosive price growth:

While the study only looked at property purchases in 2016, an analysis by Global News suggests the same extended crime network may have laundered about $5-billion in Vancouver-area homes since 2012…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.