While the Chinese stock market tumult has stirred questions about its impact on Australia’s real estate market, many surmise it will not affect Chinese overseas property investments, reports the Australian Financial Review (13 January 2016). This is thanks to China’s vast middle-class, whose substantial “real wealth” is not truly afflicted, and who remain zealous in investing abroad. According to Juwai Co-Founder Simon Henry, it’s vital to note that China’s economic strife has only hit specific sectors, of which consumer-oriented and service industries remain buoyant and burgeoning. "Previous tightening hasn't had an appreciable impact on investment into international real estate. China's unchanged medium-term goal is not tighter controls, but the opposite. The government wants to remove all or nearly all of its capital controls so that it has a free-trading currency," said Henry.
