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According to CBRE, Canada is the most active foreign investor in U.S. real estate, with nearly $10 billion in direct investments in 2014, far outpacing Norway, China, Japan, and Germany.  Business directory In 2014, global direct investment in US real estate totaled $41 billion, accounting for roughly 11% of total investment in US property assets. When compared to 2013, this reflects a 6% rise in global investment. Last year, Canada was the leading global buyer of U.S. real estate, accounting for 26% of all direct foreign investment, or $9.7 billion. As of mid-January 2015, Canadian investors had already transacted $2.75 billion in US real estate. After U.S.-to-U.K. and Hong Kong-to-China capital flows, Canadian real estate investment in the United States was one of the world's largest cross-border capital flows in 2014. Norway was the second-largest foreign investor in U.S. real estate in 2014, with $14.4 billion in direct foreign investment, a 120 percent rise year over year. Chi...

According to CBRE's 2015 APAC Real Estate Markets Outlook survey, Asia Pacific's economic growth will continue to outpace the global average in the coming years, owing to rapid urbanization, demographic growth, an expanding middle class, and increasingly wealthy households.  Directory These trends result in increased demand for high-quality real estate, especially suburban shopping malls and residential housing. In 2015, Asia Pacific will continue to outperform the rest of the world, with Oxford Economics forecasting 4.4 percent economic growth versus 2.9 percent globally. In the meantime, CBRE predicts that total investment turnover in Asia Pacific will rise 5% year on year to US$118 billion in 2015. According to Dr. Henry Chin, Head of Research, CBRE Asia Pacific, a range of factors are supporting the region's investment growth, including newly raised private equity real estate funds, a rise in institutional investors' allocations to Asia Pacific, increasing activity ...

 Although Chinese investors continue to pour billions of dollars into real estate assets in the United States that appreciate in value month after month, things are a little different back home in China.  Chats Despite the Chinese government's efforts to promote home purchases, new home prices in China fell for the fifth month in a row in January 2015, as poor demand weighed on consumer sentiment. Check out this related story: California is a state in the United States China, Canada, and Mexico are bringing in a lot of foreign buyers. According to data from China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), new home prices dropped by an average of 5.1 percent in 69 of 70 cities from the previous year. This drop in China housing prices surpasses the 4.3 percent drop in December 2014, which was the highest since the data series started in 2011. In January 2015, both Beijing and Shanghai saw price declines of 3.2 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively, compared to 2.7 percent and 3.7 pe...