Luxury Portfolio Vol. 06 Issue 01 - Sheryl Simon

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LUXURY PORTFOLIO INTERNATIONAL ®

U.S. HOMEBUYERS EXPAND THEIR HORIZONS: A CLOSER LOOK AT WHERE AFFLUENT BUYERS ARE INVESTING ABROAD

As the world gets smaller and smaller, increasingly affluent U.S. homebuyers are demonstrating a higher level of comfort investing in, or moving out of the United States. Many factors could be leading to this shift including lifestyle choices, personal connections and financial viability. Lifestyle choices such as relocating and searching for a “primary home” or investing in a vacation home will directly influence the choice of location. Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, ® our parent company, are experts on global mobility, facilitating approximately 40,000 global broker to broker referrals around the world annually. As such, the organization has unique insight into purchase behavior of buyers who looked to their own LeadingRE broker in 2015 to assist with an introduction to a similar broker elsewhere in the world. Perhaps most startling is the sharp increase in interest of international purchases among the affluent U.S. homebuyer, with referrals from Luxury Portfolio International ® members almost doubling from 2014 to 2015, when the outbound referrals increased from 26 countries in 2014 to 49 countries in 2015.

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