[雙語]全球哪里的房地產最搶手？

This spring, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner paid $100 million for a French chateau-style mansion in Silicon Valley, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a single-family home in the U.S. In January, Ukraine's Rinat Akhmetov closed on two of London's most expensive apartments ever for a combined $222.5 million. In Paris, a Gulf princess spent $96.9 million last year for a mansion with an inner courtyard, garden and private chapel on the Left Bank. 
今年春天，俄羅斯億萬富豪米爾納(Yuri Milner)花1億美元買下了位于美國硅谷的一座法國城堡式豪宅，創(chuàng)下了全美獨棟住宅最高成交價紀錄。今年1月，烏克蘭的阿赫梅托夫(Rinat Akhmetov)買下了倫敦最昂貴的兩套公寓，總價2.225億美元。去年，海灣國家的某位公主花9,690萬美元買下了一座位于巴黎左岸、帶內部庭院、花園和私人教堂的宅邸。
   
Some of the biggest residential real-estate buyers in many cities are emerging from halfway around the globe. In London, one report finds that 65% of buyers in the luxury market hail from abroad. According to the Miami Association of Realtors, nearly 60% of all sales last year throughout the city were to buyers from foreign countries. About half of the buyers in one new luxury condominium on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue are from overseas.
很多城市最大方的住宅地產買家中，有不少人跨越了大半個地球。一份報告顯示，倫敦豪宅市場上有65%的買家來自海外。據美國邁阿密地產經紀商協(xié)會(Miami Association of Realtors)的統(tǒng)計，去年邁阿密所有豪宅交易中，有近60%的買家來自美國以外。購買紐約曼哈頓第五大道(Fifth Avenue)一座新豪華公寓大樓的買家也有約一半來自海外。
   
While foreign purchasers make up about 7% of the U.S. residential real-estate market, their numbers have swelled: According to the National Association of Realtors, 18% of Realtors in the U.S. market reported selling a home to at least one international buyer in 2010, up from 12% in 2009.
雖然外國買家在美國住宅房地產市場上占7%左右，但他們的人數已有所增加。據美國全國地產經紀商協(xié)會(National Association of Realtors)的統(tǒng)計，18%的美國房地產經紀商稱，2010年他們至少向一位國際買家出售過房屋，2009年持此說法的經紀商為12%。
   
The makeup of these buyers is changing, reflecting changes in the global economic scene. Buyers from Russia have returned, and the numbers are growing from Brazil, where the economy grew 7.5% last year. Australians are buying ski homes in Aspen. In Tampa, Fla., Venezuelan buyers are buying heavily discounted beach condos.
這些買家的具體組成不斷變化，這反映出全球經濟環(huán)境的改變。俄羅斯買家已經回來了，巴西買家也日益增多，巴西經濟去年增長了7.5%。澳大利亞人正在美國滑雪圣地阿斯彭(Aspen)置辦滑雪房屋，而委內瑞拉人則在美國佛羅里達州的海濱城市坦帕(Tampa)購買大打折扣的海灘公寓。
   
One of the biggest factors in many areas is the emergence of the Chinese. As housing costs on China's mainland skyrocket -- raising concerns of a property bubble there -- monied buyers are heading abroad, moving into markets that look, in comparison, like a bargain.
Photo Illustration by Mick Coulas; Bloomberg News (5); Alamy (2); Evan Joseph (1)在許多城市住宅房地產的最大買家中，有一些是來自其他國家。很多地方出現購房熱的最大因素之一是中國買家的崛起。由于中國內地房價飆升，催生出關于房地產泡沫的擔憂，富有的中國買家因此直奔海外，來到那些與中國內地相比似乎很合算的房地產市場。
   
In Orange County, Calif., broker Steve High says Chinese buyers now account for more than half of his showings in tony Newport Coast, up from a very small handful two or three years ago. He says many Chinese buyers seek brand-new homes with more than 10,000 square feet to use either for vacations or as a place for their children to live when they attend college. 'We have great big houses here, and they're sitting vacant,' he says, 'Or we have an 18-year-old kid living in the house by himself.'
房地產經紀商Steve High說，他帶去美國加州桔縣(Orange County)的豪華社區(qū)新港海岸(Newport Coast)看房的客戶中，一半多都是中國買家，而兩三年前中國客戶只占極少數。他說，很多中國買家要的是超過1萬平方英尺(約合929平方米)的全新住宅，要么是為了度假來住，要么是在孩子上大學時讓孩子來住。他說，這里有上好的大別墅，基本上都閑置著，要不就是18歲的孩子獨自住一幢大房子。
   
Amy Williamson, the vice president of sales for Prodigy Network, which markets condo buildings like Trump Soho Hotel Condominium in New York, visited Shanghai last month, meeting with local brokers and potential buyers there. Beverly Hills-based broker Joyce Rey traveled to Beijing in October, arranging a reception at an art gallery where photographs of homes priced between $10 million and $125 million were displayed around the room like artwork. Tim Swannie, the Valbonne, France, director of Home Hunts, says one of his agents is working with two Chinese clients who are looking for vineyards in the $5 million-to-$10 million range in the Bordeaux region.
威廉森(Amy Williamson)是Prodigy Network的銷售副總裁，該公司負責銷售紐約川普蘇豪酒店公寓(Trump Soho Hotel Condominium)等公寓大樓。威廉森上個月訪問了上海，和當地房地產中介及潛在客戶會面。比佛利山的地產中介雷伊(Joyce Rey)去年10月到訪北京，在一個美術館舉行了一場接待會，向中國客戶宣傳那些售價在1,000萬至1.25億美元之間的豪宅，這些豪宅的照片有如藝術品一般掛滿了整個房間。法國房地產中介公司Home Hunts的董事斯瓦尼(Tim Swannie)說，該公司一位中介人員現有兩個中國客戶，他們想要位于波爾多地區(qū)、售價在500萬至1,000萬美元之間的葡萄園。
   
In the U.S., many foreign buyers are taking advantage of the relatively weak dollar. In March, Pascale Saliou, a 44-year-old from Brittany, France, paid about $600,000 for studio in a building with a contemporary art-filled lobby in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Ms. Saliou has been visiting the city regularly for more than 20 years and finally decided to buy a New York apartment because of the exchange rate. 'We never imagined we could one day do this,' she says.
很多外國客戶如今趁美元相對弱勢的時候在美國買房。今年3月，來自法國布列塔尼(Brittany)、44歲的薩利歐(Pascale Saliou)花60萬美元在曼哈頓切爾西(Chelsea)社區(qū)買了一個單間公寓，公寓位于一幢帶有現代藝術氣息大廳的大樓里。20多年來，薩利歐定期探訪紐約，最終由于匯率之便決定在紐約買下一套公寓。她說，我們從未想過有一天可以在紐約買房。
   
Not all foreign purchasers are shelling out millions (in the U.S., the median price paid for a home by an overseas buyer was just under $220,000, according to the National Association of Realtors). And not all are traveling thousands of miles. Canadians are the largest group of foreign buyers in the U.S. today, representing about 23% of foreign buyers, up from about 17.6% in 2009, according to the National Association of Realtors.
并不是所有外國買家在購置房產時動輒就出手百萬美元。據美國全國地產經紀商協(xié)會的統(tǒng)計，來美國買房的海外買家的成交價中值略低于22萬美元。也并非所有人都是不遠萬里來買房。據美國全國地產經紀商協(xié)會數據顯示，加拿大人目前是在美國購房的數量最多的外國買家，在來美國買房的外國人中占比23%左右，比2009年的約17.6%有所上升。
   
Global property buyers gravitate to a handful of highly specific locales: In London, Russians and people from the Middle East flock to central Knightsbridge, where blocks of sleek condos offer top-of-the-line amenities. In New York, newer condos packed with contemporary design attract foreign buyers. Here's a look at some of the top global real-estate markets for foreign buyers.
 全球房地產買家慕名前往的是為數不多的幾個非常具體的地方。來自俄羅斯和中東的富豪都蜂擁在倫敦市中心的騎士橋(Knightsbridge)，這里有多幢提供頂級設施的時尚公寓。而在紐約，吸引外國買家的是那些處處充滿了現代風格設計、更為新潁的公寓大樓。在接下來的系列文章中，我們將陸續(xù)介紹一些吸引外國買家的全球頂級房地產市場。