ML-Implode News - Foreign "Smart Money" Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it's a "Safe Haven"

[N]ever have so many Chinese quietly moved so much money out of the country at such a fast pace. Nowhere is that Sino capital flight more prevalent than into the US residential real estate market, where billions are rapidly pouring into the American Dream. From New York to Los Angeles, China's nouveau riche are going on a housing shopping spree.
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Among California cities that are hot with Chinese investors: Alhambra, Arcadia, Irvine, Monterey Park, San Francisco, San Marino, and in recent years Orange County, "a once heavily white middle-class suburb that is now 40% Asian and becoming increasingly expensive," according to RealtyTrac:
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"In Manhattan, we estimate that 15% of all transactions are to foreign buyers," Jonathan Miller, president of New York real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc., told RealtyTrac. "Luxury real estate is the new global currency," he said. "Foreigners are putting their cash into a hard asset." And they see US real estate as "global safe haven."

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Foreign "Smart Money" Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it's a "Safe Haven"