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 The Edge Markets (7 September 2018). Despite the global resistance, mainland Chinese residential and commercial international property purchases in 2017 reached a new record of US$119.7 billion, up 18.1% from the US$101.4 billion in 2016, according to Juwai.com. It also expects mainland Chinese commercial and residential property investments to increase 3% to 8% in 2018.