What Chinese buyers want
By: Angela Wong
With the economic recovery, real estate is also back to gradual demand trends. As the industry response to customer inquiries on the property investment increases, more and more immigrants are interested in houses as well. Particularly houses that are less than 20 years old.
New immigrants tend to live in newer homes, because in China they are accustomed to residing in the newer houses and the maintenance cost of newer homes is often less expensive. Conversely, Americans generally accept houses of 60 years old. Most immigrants believe a house like this is too old. Older homes tend to require more maintenance, like spending money on recurring repair sewers, etc.
Immigrant buyers are usually divided into two types, one is to ‘pre-buy’ houses, for the future schooling of their children and for family to prepare for migration, and the other is a pure investment. The former will choose the newer and larger detached houses, while the latter seeks bargain prices.
In addition to preference for newer houses, the mainland Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants have their own preference on housing choices. The mainland Chinese immigrants do not focus too much on school district but rather choose areas that are close proximity to Chinese supermarkets, restaurants and shops while the Taiwanese immigrants are focused on quality school districts.
經濟逐漸復甦，房產也有回溫趨勢，業者反應顧客對房產投資的詢問度增加，而且越來越多的新移民喜新厭舊，對20年以上的中古屋興趣不大，寧可住新公寓也不住獨立大屋。
新移民顧客偏向住新屋，不僅和在中國住慣新房子的習慣有關，客人認為新房維修費用比較少。一般美國人能接受的60年代的房屋，在新移民看來則認為過於陳舊，光是花錢修繕下水道和房屋內部裝飾就是一筆很大數目。
客人對東區新房子大多比較有興趣，通常分為兩個類型，一個是預購房產，為將來小孩讀書和全家移民做準備，另一種是純投資等未來升值。前者因居住，所以會選擇新且大一些的獨立屋，而後者則更看中價格。
除新移民偏好新房子，中國和台灣移民對房屋選擇也各有偏好。吳程遠說，中國移民對學區沒那麼看中，喜歡華人聚集，不開車就能到超市、餐館這類生活便利的地區，而台灣移民主要看學區，對是否在華人多的地區倒不太看重，因為他們覺得學區好壞才是保值重點。
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