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A special Chinese tour group is heading to the United States later this month to go bargain hunting for houses at foreclosure prices. More than 40 affluent house hunters from across China will begin a trip to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles on Feb. 24 in search of cheap homes to buy. Their goal: to find investment property and housing their children could use when they go to the USA to study or work. Their budget: $300,000 to $800,000 apiece. "U.S. house prices are lower now, and we'll also be looking at low-price houses auctioned off by the courts," says Zhao Xinyu, a manager at Soufun.com, China's leading real estate website and the trip's organizer. This is the first overseas buying trip for the real estate firm, whose name in Chinese means "search house" and which has organized house-hunting trips inside China. It may not be the last. "We won't force our clients to buy," Zhao says of this first group of bargain hunters, who are paying $3,600 each for the trip. "But if it's successful, we'll organize several more trips this year." Hunting for businesses, employees, too Cash-rich China, whose purchases of U.S. Treasury notes help prop up the federal government, is looking to recession-stricken America for more than just houses at the right price. Chinese companies are on the ground looking for U.S. firms on the skids, says David Putnam, head of Asia for Houlihan Lokey, a Los Angeles-based investment bank that specializes in financial restructuring. They're looking for people, too. "We are aware of a number of Chinese strategic players who are interested in acquiring distressed U.S. assets in a number of industries," says Putnam, who is based in Hong Kong. "They have people looking on their behalf, and they are sending people over to visit." In the last two months, headhunters have been scouring America's decimated financial sector mostly for ethnic Chinese executives. Twenty banks from the Chinese financial capital of Shanghai toured in December in search of talent, the China Daily newspaper reported. Last month, the Chinese government dispatched recruiters to New York and Chicago for 1,700 people to help build the country's nascent financial services industry. But houses are assets that individual Chinese with money can try to cash in on. "Once Chinese accumulate some capital, we want to find an outlet," says Shen Yue, a Chinese film producer. "China is growing richer, but this is still a country run by the Communist Party, which inherently distrusts private property. The party's power is more than the rule of law. That is scary, and we cannot be sure about changes in the future. The U.S. market and social system are more stable." Shen, who already owns four houses in Beijing and Shanghai and who hasn't been to America, says he wants to take a future Soufun.com house-hunting trip to the United States and spend up to $500,000 for a house. There appear to be plenty of others like him. Soufun.com's trip to the USA originally was planned for January, but it was delayed because the number of applicants outnumbered the spots on the tour tenfold. The tour targeted Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles for the potential buying spree because of their large ethnic Chinese communities and because they have a large number of universities. |