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Australia has tightened foreign investment in housing
¡iĶ¤å¡jOverseas property buyers are flocking to the real estate market of Australia in recent years, pushing up the house prices strongly in the country. In response to the situation, new regulations were issued in December 2015 requiring foreigners to seek approval from the government's Foreign Investment Review Board before purchasing any property in Australia. Non-Australians are only allowed to invest in the primary housing market, not the secondary market; otherwise they would be forced to sell their properties.
61 forced Sales since May last year
The Treasurer Scott Morrison announced on Feb 6 that the government had already forced foreign owners of 15 illegally-acquired properties to sell, and such properties were owned by the nationals of China and India, etc.
The total number of forced property sales added up to 61 since May last year with a combined value of AU$107 million (approximately HK$636 million), of which 25 were held by Chinese citizens.
The 15 illegally-bought properties were located in the provinces of Victoria and Queensland with buyers from China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Britain and Germany, in which the most expensive one was a residential unit in Melbourne valued at AU$5.9 million (approximately HK$35.06 million), owned by an Indian.
To begin its crackdown on illegally-acquired properties, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) had identified more than 570 cases of violation of rules through data-matching programs and the information provided by the public, and finally 388 penalty notices were issued to foreign nationals in breach of the regulations.
Morrison criticized the former Labor government for allowing illegal possession of properties owned by foreigners, saying that the current-term government was committed to reinforcing the rules and imposing penalties including three-year jail terms and fines of as much as AU$130,000 (approximately HK$770,000) for individuals and AU$675,000 (approximately HK$4.01 million) for companies, added with confiscation of profits.
Buyers speaking bad English reported
Charles Pittar, chief executive of the website Juwai.com that promotes overseas property to Chinese, said that there were only 61 forced sales out of more than 2,000 investigations of potential illegal home purchase, accounting for just 3% of the investigations.
While compared to the estimation by the ATO that 5% of wealthy Australians might evade paying their taxes, foreign investors still behaved better than the local well-to-do.
He pointed out that investigation was often started when it was reported that a homebuyer could not speak fluent English and was new to the country, questioning if the measures were justifiable.
With foreign capital inflows in recent years, the house prices of Sydney have risen for more than 70% since 2012, making it the second most unaffordable housing city in the world after Hong Kong, according to the research institute Demographia.
Moreover, the Australian government had rejected foreign acquisitions of electricity grid and other infrastructure assets for the reason of national security.¡½Ãe¹Å»ö
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