China’s Millennials: What Does the World’s Largest Investor Migrant Group Want? Part 1
China’s millennials are nothing like their parents. Now in their 30s and 40s, they are the main cohort of investor migrants. What do they want?
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Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About China’s Investment Migration Market
While demand is stronger than ever, the big agencies are closing branches and laying off staff. In 2020, all the rules have changed.
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The 7 Guiding Principles of Chinese HNWI Overseas Property Investors
Freehold is always preferable to leasehold, leverage is key to mitigating risk and overcoming capital restrictions, and exchange rates are crucial.
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A Brief Guide for Foreign Investment Migration Firms Entering the Chinese Market
Foreign investment migration firms have principally three ways to enter the Chinese market, each with its own pros and cons. Choose wisely, writes Luc Lu.
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The 4 Reasons Chinese Investor Migrants Don’t Physically Relocate
China’s HNWIs have historically kept only one foot out the door; hoping to reap China’s economic benefits while insulating themselves from its drawbacks.
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Coronavirus Will Radically Impact the Investment Migration Market
The viral epidemic is a black swan event that will materially reconfigure the investment migration industry. And not just within China.
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Vanuatu Suspends Passport Deliveries Over Coronavirus Concerns
Vanuatu’s Immigration Director has taken the unprecedented step of banning, until further notice, all passport deliveries to Southeast and North Asia.
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How China’s Investment Migration Market Will React to Higher Investment Requirements
Faced with rising minimum investment requirements among RCBI programs across the globe, China’s Investment Migration market will respond in three ways.
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Chinese Agents Frustrated by Greek Golden Visa Developers’ Payment Issues
Paying returns to old investors with funds from new ones: In finance, that’s called a Ponzi scheme. In Golden Visa real estate, it’s par for the course.
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The Crisis in China’s Investment Migration Market: Part 3
China’s investment migration market is changing rapidly. In this third installment, Luc Lu discusses what happens when market barriers are removed.
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China’s RCBI-Industry Unanimous: International Firms Who Target Direct Clients “Must be Opposed”
Luc Lu’s recent tour of China’s investment migration market highlight a rapidly changing industry that’s reconfiguring to deal with multiple crises.
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Chinese Buyers Increasingly Favor Properties in Asia Over Anglosphere, China’s Top Intl. Property Site Reports
The world of golden visa programs is “a buyer’s market in which Chinese citizens have their pick” says Georg Chmiel, Executive Chairman of Juwai.com.
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82% of China’s Immigration Agencies Are Under Five Years Old – Deregulation Sets off Deluge in Openings
In Shanghai, 44% of immigration intermediaries have yet to celebrate their first anniversary and fully 91% have yet to mark their fifth.
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Beacon’s Hong Kong Summit to Open to the Public “In View of the Situation”
One of the industry’s most prolific event organizers is opening its November summit to the public “in view of the situation in Hong Kong”.
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China Has Up to 27,000 Immigration Agencies, Researchers Find
Following the government’s elimination of licensing requirements, immigration agencies are mushrooming.
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57,000+ Chinese Spent More Than US$44 Billion on Golden Visas in Last Decade
We’ve gone through historical data to find out how many Chinese investors obtained golden visas in the last decade – and how much they invested.
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Cyprus CIP and US EB-5 Most Common Programs in China-Market, Analysis Shows
The Residence and Citizenship by Investment Company Directory contains 732 firms that offer investment migration services. 102 of these have
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The Crisis in China’s Investment Immigration Market: Part 2
The platform model is tranforming the Chinese migration market by reducing the distance between clients and overseas agents. It’s also planted a time-bomb.
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Chinese Billionaire on Beijing’s Radar Over Saint Kitts Citizenship
Sun Xiang obtained citizenship of Saint Kitts by investment in 2011. A year later, he became a congressman in China. This week, the government found out.
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Details Emerge on Vanuatu’s Revoking Citizenships, Extraditing Fraud Suspects to China
Vanuatu has revoked the citizenships of four Chinese fraud-suspects and extradited them to China. Whether due process was granted remains an open question.
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