A new book edited by Sin Yee Koh and I

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Individual foreign investment in residential real estate by new middle-class and super-rich investors is re-emerging as a key issue in academic, policy and public debates around the world. At its most abstract, global real estate is increasingly thought of as a liquid asset class that is targeted by foreign individual investors who are seeking to diversify their investment portfolios. But foreign investors are also motivated by intergenerational familial security, transnational migration strategies, and short-term educational plans, which are all closely entwined with global real estate investment. Government and local public responses to the latest manifestation of global real estate investment have taken different forms. These range from pro-foreign investment, primarily justified on geopolitical and macro-economic grounds, to anti-foreign investment for reasons such as mitigating public dissent and protecting the local housing market. Within this changing geopolitical context, this book offers a diverse range of case studies from Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia, Australia and Korea. It will be of interest to academics, policymakers, and university students who are interested in the globalisation of local real estate.

Contents

1. The globalisation of real estate: the politics and practice of foreign real estate investment

Dallas Rogers and Sin Yee Koh

2. Global China and the making of Vancouver’s residential property market

David Ley

3. The (geo)politics of land and foreign real estate investment in China: the case of Hong Kong FDI

Karita Kan

4. Courting the ‘rich and restless’: globalisation of real estate and the new spatial fixities of the super-rich in Singapore

C.P. Pow

5. The geopolitics of real estate: assembling soft power via property markets

Mirjam Büdenbender and Oleg Golubchikov

6. Transnational real estate in Australia: new Chinese diaspora, media representation and urban transformation in Sydney’s Chinatown

Alexandra Wong

7. Chinese Investment in Australian Housing: Push and Pull Factors and Implications for Understanding International Housing

Sha Liu & Nicole Gurran

8. Ethnic connections, foreign housing investment and locality: a case study of Seoul

Hyung Min Kim