The interest of the Chinese London real estate has doubled

London has become the most popular destination for Chinese investors in the first half of 2014. The Chinese showed interest in both , commercial and residential properties in London. Infusion of Chinese investors in London in the first half of 2014 exceeded their investments in the U.S. real estate market during the same period of the previous year by 17%, when the amount of investment reached $5.4 billion.

The analysis, compiled by JLL showed that the lion’s share of investment in London real estate from Chinese investors made investments in commercial real estate, almost $4 billion , but the growth of investments is due to investments in residential real estate, which increased by 84%. In the second quarter of 2014, the interest of Chinese investors were shared between London and San Francisco in the proportion of US$2.3 billion and US$548 respectively.

Institutional investors that submitted financial groups, “China Construction Bank”, “China Overseas Holdings” and “China Life all buying” actively buying office assets in London. In San Francisco also bought office assets, which were in Vogue among Chinese investors due to the fact that one private company has managed well to advertise the building at 225 Bush Street, which instantly snapped up by the Chinese.

Chinese investors are very active from the beginning of 2014 and consider potential investment is not only large, long-recognized for good liquidity of the city. After San Francisco’s most popular Chinese-American town became Chicago with the investment of $465 million, followed by Australian Sydney with the amount of investment is $390 million, Then Madrid – $361 million, Melbourne – $191 million and San Francisco $169 million. For the first time Chinese investors have begun to pay attention to the city with good investment potential, for example, Madrid, but with higher risk. Chinese company Dalian Wanda, one of the first entered the Spanish market by buying assets such as commercial real estate at Santander Banking Group.

® Alice Morgan 01.08.2014

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