With investors from China showing strong interest in properties in Southeast Asia, Chinese investments in Malaysia's residential real estate are expected to double by 2025, stated a report in The Sun Daily (21 July 2019). Some RM9.5 billion worth of properties across key locations in Malaysia were transacted through property online platform, Juwai.com, last year. "Historically, the most popular markets for Chinese buyers have been the US, Australia and the UK. Due to political reasons, Brexit, trade war, legislation in Australia which puts a higher stamp duty on foreign buyers, there have been some shifts and new markets have emerged, such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, or in general, Southeast Asia," said Juwai.com chairman Georg Chmiel