# The biggest international buyers of American homes

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2015-11-29

american-homes, architect-this-city, atc, athiscity, britain, canada, china, chinese-outflows, india, international-purchases, mexico, overseas-buyers, real-estate, residential-real-estate, uncategorized

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A reader recently sent me a New York Times article talking about Chinese buyers flooding into the US residential real estate market. This is something that I’ve written about before, but I liked the “graphic” section called [The Roots of China’s Real Estate Rush](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/23/business/china-factor-real-estate.html).

Here are two of the graphs:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5b51f27d6625f2a0327538adb2d51e41.png)![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d8888a5afc8f86ff992ebb520f40c037.png)

The second chart shows you just how much more significant Chinese buyers are compared to the next biggest foreign customer of American homes: Canadians. And with the Canadian dollar where it is, it is no surprise that we are trending downwards. That doesn’t seem to be the case with the Chinese.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/the-biggest-international-buyers-of-american-homes)*