Buying a house overseas without changing hands is not easy to become trouble.

Recently, an Australian real estate regulator said that most of the 4,000 new houses bought by China investors in the past two years were vacant, and Australian economists also predicted that China buyers would buy 654.38+00,000 new houses for waste in the next five years. Vacancy has become one of the problems that many overseas buyers have to face. They can't rent from a distance, and they can't live across the sea, so it is difficult to change hands. This overseas investment is a bit troublesome.

Australian real estate is seriously vacant.

On July 13, data released by Australian real estate monitoring agencies showed that about 4,000 new houses purchased by China investors in recent two years were mostly vacant, and owners only came to see them occasionally.

According to the data at the end of 20 10, the housing gap in Australia is 187000, and the vacancy rate in Australia is only about 2.5%. In the statistics of 20 1 1, the proportion of vacant houses in Australia rose to 8%. Although it is not high compared with the vacancy rate of more than 25% in China, the growth rate is amazing.

With the prosperity of the Australian housing market, there are more and more vacant houses, some of which are overgrown with weeds and nicknamed "haunted houses" by neighbors, and many of these buyers are from China. Angie Manice, a housing economist at bis sulphant, said that many China investors would buy houses for their children studying in Australian universities. These houses may become their homes abroad, but almost 80% to 90% of the time, these houses are empty.

Excellent foreign educational resources, as well as some social welfare policies that are superior to domestic ones, constantly attract domestic buyers to flock to the open sea. The recent turmoil in the stock market has caused more investors to turn their attention to the direction of the property market, and overseas real estate has also shown higher advantages under the frequent changes in domestic housing purchase policies.

As for the problem of vacant overseas properties, it is also mentioned in front of the vast number of buyers in such a wave. 20/kloc-in June, 2004, a survey conducted by Beijing Youth Daily showed that among the overseas investors interviewed, 53.3% of the overseas properties purchased were vacant, 39.4% were rented, and only 7.3% had been sold. These vacant properties are located in Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other parts of the world.

Overseas purchases are mostly investments.

Although many people are optimistic about the better natural environment, educational resources and welfare policies abroad, and some even turn overseas because they think that the housing prices in first-tier cities in China are too high, there are still a few people who can go abroad to buy a house overseas. The demand of this part of property buyers will definitely not be rigid demand, at least it should be a higher level of improved demand. In other words, buying a house overseas is still a game for the rich, in which, apart from a small part of the demand for self-occupation, it is more of an investment demand.

Liu Lei, chief real estate investment strategist of South Island Real Estate Group and outsourcing expert of China Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, said in an interview with Hexun.com that unlike in the past, many people used to buy houses in Australia mainly for the convenience of studying abroad, but now the proportion of investment is gradually increasing. "At present, if ten people plan to buy a house in Australia, then three of them are studying abroad, two or three are immigrants, and almost three or four are investments. In the past, the proportion of investment was much lower. "

With the improvement of some intermediary services, overseas home purchase has become easy and simple. In mature markets such as the United States, Canada and Australia, the annual appreciation of real estate is around 7%-8%. Compared with domestic first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, it is relatively stable, although the magnitude is not large. For overseas investment buyers, they choose overseas home ownership not for the sake of making a fortune, but mostly for the preservation of assets, that is, long-term investment, so they can be more patient with appreciation compared with the domestic market.

Changing hands is not easy to lead to vacancies.

Overseas real estate is prone to a large number of vacant reasons, in addition to the composition of buyers, mainly investors, and the house itself is difficult to change hands. Houses in foreign countries are not as tight as those in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong in China, so it is not as convenient to change hands once you don't want to stay in first-tier cities in China.

Liu Dong, a Fujian native, bought five finely decorated apartments on the Gold Coast of Australia four years ago under the recommendation of the developer. At that time, the total selling price was 6.5438+0 million Australian dollars, about 5 million RMB. Two years later, because the business was in urgent need of funds, I thought of selling these houses and found that the situation was wrong. First, it's actually a big disadvantage for Australian natives, because they buy a community with more Chinese. And originally thought that this bright spot of sea view apartment, because of inconvenient transportation and incomplete supporting facilities, has become another short board for local people to buy their own homes. Unable to attract local people, we can only expect China buyers to take over the offer, and the latter is even more difficult to satisfy.

A survey shows that 56.5% of overseas home buyers choose communities with more Chinese, 35. % of buyers feel that their houses are not easy to sell and it is difficult to change hands. In fact, many buyers who invest in overseas real estate are investing with the pace of overseas expansion of domestic real estate enterprises. Wei Kefei, director of international business of Beijing Housing Exhibition, believes that the overseas expansion of housing enterprises will also focus on domestic customers, which will lead to the buyers of these projects being mostly China or Chinese. However, according to the living habits of foreign countries, it is difficult for such Chinese communities to integrate into the whole foreign environment because of their different habits and beliefs.

The relatively closed humanistic environment of the community will easily lead to the dilemma of difficult investment. In addition, many domestic investors don't live abroad, so they don't have enough time to find tenants and lack local intermediary resources for subletting. In addition, Lu Zhiguang, the chairman of Pinxin Overseas Real Estate Co., Ltd., also believes that due to the relatively strict supervision of overseas capital investment, there may be some difficulties in withdrawing funds after purchasing properties overseas in the future.

Buying a house overseas needs to be more cautious.

In fact, apart from the vacancy problem, China people have to face many risks when investing in overseas real estate, including local tax policies, falling house prices and exchange rate changes. However, due to the long distance, it is difficult for China people to obtain detailed information about local houses, such as geographical location and surrounding living environment. If the house they buy is in a remote location, with inconvenient transportation, it is difficult for the house price to rise and it is difficult to rent. It is recommended to make detailed planning and investigation before making a choice.

(The above answers were published on 20 15-07- 14. Please refer to the current actual purchase policy. )

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