Seeking a safe, profitable investment outside China, major Chinese players and development companies such as Greenland Holding Group, Dalian Wanda Group and Oceanwide Holdings have bought $5 billion in U.S. commercial real estate this year, up from $2.5 billion last year and $1 billion in 2010. 

 

In many U.S. projects developed by Chinese firms, including Greenland’s “Metropolis,” a three-tower condo project in downtown Los Angeles, more than a third of the buyers are from China, according to the Wall Street Journal. The buyers are generally wealthy and upper-middle-class citizens seeking an investment or a place to send their children while they attend an American university.

 

The market-at-home and build abroad strategy is logical for the developers. They’re “household names or brand names within China,” said Martin Polevoy, an attorney with DLA Piper in New York who advises Chinese real-estate firms on U.S. property. “People trust them and they will sign on to one of their projects in the U.S.” 

 

 

 

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