Real estate experts are expecting slow housing price growth after the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, reports the South China Morning Post (25 January 2017). However, foreign investors remain seemingly unaffected, especially Chinese property buyers who have acquired $350 billion worth of US real estate between 2010 and 2015 to account for 28 percent of all foreign residential real estate acquisitions in the US within that period. According to Juwai data, Chinese buyer enquiries for US property were up by 178 percent y-o-y compared to 2015 in the final weeks of 2016. "Trump's election has not alarmed Chinese consumers as much as it has some Europeans – and even [Democratic] blue-state Americans. They think of him as a businessman who will be pragmatic and spur the economy," said Charles Pittar, CEO of Juwai.com. "They expect the dollar to rise, they want to send their kids to the US to study, and they often have so much money tied up in Chinese real estate that they want to hedge their investments by diversifying abroad. The US still seems like the best bet in an uncertain world," adds Pittar. [This article is available in newspapers edition only.]