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Foreign Buyers Cooling On U.S. Housing Are Looking At Panamá Instead

The American residential real estate market rarely rocks headlines—despite economically accounting for the largest single share of U.S. gross domestic product (+/- 17%).

The Great Recession pushed real estate front and center in the media for a while as the banks collapsed back in 2008. Covid subsequently upended where and how people wanted to live and work, which became a story in itself (and still is).

But day to day, no one’s really paying attention to U.S. housing market fundamentals the way they are to dips in the Dow or spikes in the S&P.

So, it was notable last month, when America’s National Association of Realtors (NAR) issued a new report entitled “Annual Foreign Investment in U.S. Existing-Home Sales Declined 9.6% to $53.3 Billion”, that so many people seemed to pay…

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