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Becoming a Super-Rich Foreign Real Estate Investor: Globalising Real Estate Data, Publications and Events

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This chapter investigates the global real estate industry, which is developing around the new wave of Asian foreign real estate investment in Anglo-sphere countries. The global real estate industry is up-scaling the local real estate practices of the twentieth century into the global sphere. These new transnational brokering agents promote foreign real estate as a place to park excess capital, a way to obtain educational security for children studying at foreign institutions, and as a way to ‘purchase citizenship’ through a new suite of foreign investment visa regimes. These brokering agents are coaching foreign investors into the ways of becoming a super-rich foreign real estate investor.

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    Dallas Rogers

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    Sin Yee Koh

  3. City University of Hong Kong , Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Rogers, D. (2017). Becoming a Super-Rich Foreign Real Estate Investor: Globalising Real Estate Data, Publications and Events. In: Forrest, R., Koh, S., Wissink, B. (eds) Cities and the Super-Rich. The Contemporary City. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54834-4_5

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