Vancouver is a longtime favourite of Chinese real estate buyers and Chinese capital will keep flowing in, reports Mother Jones (May/June 2017 issue). Canada does not keep track of foreign real estate investment, however estaimtes Canada’s National Bank Financial indicate that Chinese spent close to $10 billion on real estate in the Vancouver metropolitan area during 2015 alone, which is a third of the total dollar amount spent on city real estate. According to real estate consultancy Juwai.com, Chinese real estate holdings abroad totalled $80 billion in 2015 and is projected to hit $220 billion by 2020.
