OceanWide Plaza to Evergrande: China Crash Infects Los Angeles Real Estate and U.S. Stock Market

OceanWide Plaza Downtown Los Angeles zombie project remains in purgatory

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The Wu Flu isn’t the only alien virus making us ill. Contagion from communist China’s property market collapse is making made U.S. property markets sick.

Fallen giant Evergrande has been called the “Leman Brothers of China,” referring to the collapse of a business that is too big to fail, yet allowed to fail anyway. Communist China is having an economic meltdown, starting with massive crash of China’s fake, ghost city real estate industry, tofu-dreg buildings that collapse or topple over, along with China’s other communist-style national ponzi schemes, long papered over by cooked books. Evergrande, Fantasia and Kaisa are the first three large losers in China’s real estate collapse.. Communist mainland China has been infecting U.S. real estate for some time. China-controlled OceanWide Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles has been too broke to pay its bills for years. The project has been on again since it began, and began sputtering down in 2016. Today, it sits half-built, and decaying amid growing weeds.

While Downtown Los Angeles real estate prices are now rising, the entire U.S. housing market is increasingly phony, propped up by inflation. The real health or lack thereof must be gauged by examining a broader spectrum of signs, such as the declining health of real estate companies a compared a few years ago. Zillow is experiencing a zombie-like sickness of its own, which some blame on the companies overzealous and backwards attempt to be an ibuyer flipper and broker in one, when the tech company could have invested in newer technology instead. While Zillow did make a mistake by investing in low tech instead of researching and integrating new high tech such as AI, deep learning, quantum computers and blockchain smart contracts, Zillows rapid blunder was greatly exacerbated by the obscured cooling of global real estate amid a new era of stagflation.

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The loft blog expects a lackluster real estate market for years to come, with continuing reliance on inflation to provide only an illusion of real growth. The good news is that January of 22 is expected to offer at least a glimmer of hope to the city of angels, with the possibly of real growth if the city focuses on cleaning up its act.

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Metropolis Los Angeles condominium complex and money from China
Metropolis Los Angeles condominium complex and money from China

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USA Today reported this week that Chinese home buyers and investors have pulled back sharply from the U.S. real estate market.  Foreign investors purchased $77.9 billion in residential property in the 12 months ending in March, down 36% from the previous 12-month period, the National Association of Realtors said in a recent report.

All told, existing U.S. home sales are down about 3% so far this year from the same period in 2018, NAR figures show.

Even before the start of the Trump Trade War, Beijing had already placed tight limits on how much capital can leave the country after its devaluation of the yuan a few years ago.  The government toughened capital controls more last year as the Chinese economy weakened. Trump’s tariff war is expected to exacerbate this trend.

California is the epicenter of Chinese residential investment in the U.S., with 34% of purchases in the state.

The largest super luxury condo buildings Metropolis and OceanWide Plaza are developed by Chinese-owned companies.  OceanWide construction has been stalled due to a pause in construction capital. A number of units hav been purchased at Metropolis, predominantly by a large percentage of buyers from China, many of them were cash buyers. The China source of buyers has partially dried up.  This can be good news for local Californians who are looking to buy a home –- a larger supply of condos, fewer competitors and a lower price than a year ago.

With China’s limits on cash that can leave the country, Chinese buyers are now searching for lower-priced homes and relying on mortgages more often. The share of their home purchases with mortgages has risen to 46% in the 12 months ending in March, from 37% the prior year, according to NAR. And more of the buyers are middle-class.

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OceanWide Plaza Los Angeles condominium complex and money from China
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