Happiness said:While I value the observations and opinions of the members of this board, is all we have here Taiwanese and other people speculating about the motivations of mainland China home buyers? Don't we have any real mainlanders here who would like to chime in?
Happiness said:While I value the observations and opinions of the members of this board, is all we have here Taiwanese and other people speculating about the motivations of mainland China home buyers? Don't we have any real mainlanders here who would like to chime in?
USCTrojanCPA said:OCLuvr said:
Someone forgot to forward that article to the 2 FCBs that bought my two most recent listings.
misme said:Happiness said:While I value the observations and opinions of the members of this board, is all we have here Taiwanese and other people speculating about the motivations of mainland China home buyers? Don't we have any real mainlanders here who would like to chime in?
I doubt any real mainlanders are on an english language forum.
anyone want to pipe up and prove me wrong?
I get the feeling that most of the Asians on here are actually Asian Americans. (1.5 gen or more) and have a very different point of view than real recent immigrants/expats.
fortune11 said:So much for the theory that housing is not a leading indicator ...
Housing stocks moved first , housing volumes moved first (as correctly pointed out by many others on this forum ) earlier this year ..
But seeing the recent price action in toll brothers stock (outperformed the market now , despite the bad numbers ) , we may be bottoming out here on a forward looking basis .
newbieinirvine said:USCTrojanCPA said:OCLuvr said:
Someone forgot to forward that article to the 2 FCBs that bought my two most recent listings.
How are they getting the cash into the country (assuming they paid all-cash)?
newbieinirvine said:How are they getting the cash into the country (assuming they paid all-cash)?
irvinehomeowner said:I've mentioned this before but I'm not worried about a lull in Chinese FCBs, Irvine has plenty of other FCBs.
In fact... there is a particular Caucasian demographic that keeps Woodbridge prices amazingly high.
Compressed-Village said:This what I would refer to as, using the negatives environments in rates, as it moves higher to negotiate for favorable pricing for buyers. Using to seasonal slow down and national slow down to gain the upper hands on pricing. Using the negativity of owning to get better pricing. Clearly, this buyers know what they are doing.
shahshah said:this is a poor example. look deeper. i have a friend with three SFR in woodbridge purchased purchase after that in 2016, 2017 and 2017. all of the have appreciated quite well.
meccos12 said:Compressed-Village said:This what I would refer to as, using the negatives environments in rates, as it moves higher to negotiate for favorable pricing for buyers. Using to seasonal slow down and national slow down to gain the upper hands on pricing. Using the negativity of owning to get better pricing. Clearly, this buyers know what they are doing.
Im a bit unclear about what you are saying here. Are you suggesting higher interest rates will put downward pressures on home prices?
Also what do you mean by "using seasonal slow down and national slowdown to gain upper hands on pricing?" Are you suggesting the buyer bought during a slow season and when housing is slowing all over the country to get a better deal on this house?
How do you know if the buyer used "negativity of owning" to get better pricing. Do you know the buyer of that house?
Compressed-Village said:meccos12 said:Compressed-Village said:This what I would refer to as, using the negatives environments in rates, as it moves higher to negotiate for favorable pricing for buyers. Using to seasonal slow down and national slow down to gain the upper hands on pricing. Using the negativity of owning to get better pricing. Clearly, this buyers know what they are doing.
Im a bit unclear about what you are saying here. Are you suggesting higher interest rates will put downward pressures on home prices?
Also what do you mean by "using seasonal slow down and national slowdown to gain upper hands on pricing?" Are you suggesting the buyer bought during a slow season and when housing is slowing all over the country to get a better deal on this house?
How do you know if the buyer used "negativity of owning" to get better pricing. Do you know the buyer of that house?
It mean to get what you want for the least competition and rooms for price improvements. Or in your case just wait, until the herds rushing in again and compete for the house that you want.
Kenkoko said:shahshah said:this is a poor example. look deeper. i have a friend with three SFR in woodbridge purchased purchase after that in 2016, 2017 and 2017. all of the have appreciated quite well.
I am sure SFR in woodbridge did better than the attached home I posted. But that's the norm everywhere. Woodbridge also has much more attached homes than SFRs. Price of attached homes are not irrelevant.
I was questioning IHO's claim that woodbrige has a particular Caucasian demographic that keeps Woodbridge prices "amazingly high"
Which is why I asked what he was comparing woodbridge to. From what I've seen, Woodbridge has under-performed every surrounding villages except Walnut/El Camino.