Archive for March, 2009

Chinese find opportunity in U.S. real estate slump

BEIJING — Amid a downturn in real estate prices, some wealthy Chinese are signing up for home-buying tours to the U.S., and Chinese media tout the trend as another sign of the strength of what’s now the world’s third-largest economy behind the U.S. and Japan. “The real estate prices in America have gone down drastically,” [...]