Chinese investors are inflating housing markets in the US, Canada, and Australia

Tyrone Siu/Reuters Chinese investors will put $1.5 trillion into assets abroad over the next decade. About half of that will likely go into foreign property, often in the US, Canada and Australia. Home prices have soared under foreign buying pressure, and politicians are finally admitting it. The “waterbed effect” of money flows. Top residential real estate brokerages in the US have been promoting US homes to investors in China for years. Brokerage firms in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, an...