--- title: Foreign Buyers Spend Record $153B in U.S. Real Estate description: International buyers purchased $153 billion worth of existing homes in the U.S. from April 2016 to March 2017 — up 49% from the same period a year before, according to recent National Association of R image: https://agent.properstar.com/hubfs/usjose-francisco-rago-631486-unsplash.jpeg --- [![properstar-landpages-logo](https://agent.properstar.com/hubfs/Properstar/properstar-landpages-logo.svg "properstar-landpages-logo")](https://www.properstar.com) - [All](https://agent.properstar.com/en/) - [Market Trends](https://agent.properstar.com/en/tag/market-trends) - [Stories](https://agent.properstar.com/en/tag/stories) - [Buyer Insights](https://agent.properstar.com/en/tag/buyer-insights) - [Selling Strategies](https://agent.properstar.com/en/tag/selling-strategies) - [Properstar](https://agent.properstar.com/en/tag/properstar) - ##### [All posts](https://agent.properstar.com/en/topic/all-posts?hsLang=en) - ##### [Market Trends](https://agent.properstar.com/en/topic/market-trends?hsLang=en) - ##### [Mortgage](https://agent.properstar.com/en/topic/mortgage?hsLang=en) # Foreign Buyers Spend Record $153B in U.S. Real Estate Geoffroy Reiser - 2017-07-26 - - International buyers purchased **$153 billion worth of existing homes** in the U.S. from April 2016 to March 2017 — up 49% from the same period a year before, according to recent National Association of Realtors® data. In others terms, foreign buyers purchased **284,455 homes**. Foreign sales accounted for **10 percent of all existing home sales by dollar volume** and 5 percent by number of properties. ### Where do foreign buyers come from ? Foreign buyers of US homes are **truly global**. Chinese, Canadians, Indians, Mexicans and British buyers are quite present, however the biggest group of foreign buyers is, with $75.6 billion worth of transactions, a very interesting group called “All Others” as you can see below: ![](https://agent.properstar.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1*uZqqXO8LVYt0VEGpHO4yNQ-1.png) #### What should US real estate actors do? The whole difficulty when addressing this market of $153 billion dollar, is that foreign buyers come **from over 60 countries**. It is **a very fragmented market**, as “All others” represent 50% of international sales in the United States. 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