Gottiboff: Chinese blocked from buying Aussie realty

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I must have died and gone to heaven. Via Gottiboff:

The trade tussle between China and Australia has taken a dramatic new turn. Chinese buyers of apartments in Sydney and to some extent in Melbourne have suddenly reduced their buying.

Early in the year, when COVID-19 was ravaging China, there was a sharp reduction in the Chinese apartment buying. But in March, as the crisis eased, Chinese buyers returned in significant numbers in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, despite the threats from the Chinese ambassador. While the buying is being executed by locals, they have close links to those on the Chinese mainland.

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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.