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中国人去年在美国置业总额达220亿 Chinese buyers have become the largest source of foreign cash in the US residential real estate market, accounting for nearly one in four dollars spent by foreigners on American housing last year. 2013年4月至2014年3月的一年时间内，中国人在美国置业总额达220亿美元，占外国人在美国置业总额的24%左右，相比前一年的128亿美元飙升71%。 ? China accounted for $22 billion in international sales for the 12 month period ending March 2014, or 24% of all foreign sales, up from $12.8 billion, or 19%, during the year-earlier period. ? Total international property sales rebounded last year to $92.2 billion, according to the NARs estimates, up from $68.2 billion in 2013 and $82.5 billion in 2012. The total represented around 7% of the market for all US sales of previously owned homes during the same period. ? In recent years, American real-estate markets have been viewed alternately as a safe haven and a bargain amid concerns over geopolitical（地理政治学的） instability or unsustainable asset values abroad. ? US real-estate also continues to be popular thanks to the dollars weakness against some currencies, though the currency advantage has dimmed somewhat for Canadian buyers that had been particularly aggressive property buyers in the US in 2011 and 2012. Some agents say that American higher education is also a top draw for some trophy-property buyers. ? Foreign buyers are being enticed to US real estate because of what they recognize as attractive prices, economic stability, and an incredible opportunity for investment in their future, said Steve Brown, the NARs president, who is the co-owner of a real-estate brokerage in Dayton, Ohio. ? European and Latin American buyers have helped push prices of South Florida condos to record highs in recent years, while foreign buyers of all stripes have sent prices of new Manhattan developments to astronomical levels. Asian buyers, particularly Chinese, have also been a major force in select property markets in San Francisco and Los Angeles. ? Overseas buyers tend to hunt for trophy prope