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Fleecing Asia’s Homebuyers

Our Correspondent
Dec 06, 2006
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The traditional Chinese adage, “Wealth comes from land” has never been as important to many ethnic Chinese around the world as today when growing consumer wealth enables a new class of people to jump gleefully onto the bandwagon of home ownership, particularly in China.

But another old adage: “location, location, location” takes on a new meaning when it …

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