Mainland Chinese buyers are expected to snap up an increasing amount of overseas real estate this year – even despite political resistance and sensitivity about such investments around the world, reports CNBC (6 September 2018). In the article, Carrie Law, CEO and Director of Juwai.com said that rising interest rates, slowing markets, domestic mortgage lending restrictions, and a new sense of the fragility of global economic growth has caused policymakers in many locations to reevaluate their stance against foreign buyers. She adds that they may prefer having the investments after all.