, according to aThe data comes from an annual survey of residential purchases from international buyers, which found that foreign buyers, led by the Chinese, purchased existing properties with a total value of $77.9 billion from April 2018 through March 2019, compared to properties totaling $121 billion in the preceding 12 months.
There are many reasons for the plunge, including less economic growth abroad — growth slowed to 3.6% in 2018 and is on track to slow to 3.3% in 2019 — tighter controls on outside investment by the Chinese government, a stronger U.S. dollar and a low inventory of homes for sale, according to Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist and fellow Forbes.com contributor, who called the magnitude of the decline"quite striking, implying less confidence in owning a property in the U.S.
Good, they can make their countries great again.
That's good news in my opinion. Foreign investors drive the cost of homeownership through the roof. We should be encouraging domestic homeownership not foreign investment in the first place.
Another consequence of tariffs; as imports decrease, it seems that foreign buyers now have fewer US dollars from which to buy US property
So now Americans can start buying? Great