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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by closeparen on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:14PM (#15565416)
>if an investor from Texas decided to buy 10 houses and live in 1

An investor from Texas can simply open a Vanguard account. The theoretical mechanism for Chinese speculation is that real estate is the path of least regulatory resistance compared to stock markets, etc. under Chinese law.

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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by uiri on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:24AM (#15566152)
Nothing to do with regulatory resistance. Chinese culture generally views the stock market as gambling in a way that US culture does not. Real estate is a safe investment. It is also protected against seizure by the Chinese government.
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