Global View Blogs on Washington State’s booming foreign investment secret

Sunrise over Seattle's skyline
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What’s the secret behind foreign investors interest in property in Washington state? “Washington is home to America’s most iconic coffee company, champion sports teams, beautiful landscape, and such legendary landmarks as the Space Needle and Pike Place Market. Did you know it’s also home to one of the most popular cities in the U.S. for…

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Absentee-owned vacant homes are a problem in housing-starved Vancouver

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Our neighbors in Vancouver are struggling with a housing shortage made worse by buy-and-hold investors who leave their properties empty. Vancouver prepared to go it alone on vacant home tax, mayor says About 12.5 per cent of Vancouver’s condos and one per cent of single-detached homes and townhomes – some 10,800 in all – sit…

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