Who are the most expensive foreign real estate buyers in Paris?

What impact on the overall market prices for an apartment in Paris?

During the year 2018, 10 out of 100 real estate buyers in Île-de-France were foreigners. A figure that may seem considerable but that we must however qualify, since 9 of these 10 foreigners already lived in France, and even more precisely in Ile-de-France for most of them. The result is a smaller figure of 2% of buyers of real estate in the Île-de-France region who are foreigners and residing outside French territory. Profiles of buyers looking for apartments for sale in Paris, who do not hesitate to use apartment hunters to quickly find the property they are looking for and to make often significant real estate investments, in particular luxury apartments in Paris.

The five most represented nationalities among foreign buyers

At the top of the number of real estate acquisitions made by foreigners in Ile-de-France, we find two nations on par with 8% of them each: Algerians and Chinese. In second position in this ranking, we find another tie with Italians and Americans at 7%, with the British closing out of the top 5 with 6% of real estate acquisitions made by foreigners. If we consider this time only acquisitions made by foreigners who are not residents of France, American buyers are in the lead with 12%, followed by Italians (11%), British (7%), Chinese and Germans, both at 6%.

What budgets do foreigners spend on real estate purchases of apartments in Paris?

In terms of budgets spent, this time it is the British who win the prize with more than 550,000 euros allocated on average to their acquisition (412,000 euros in Ile-de-France and 635,000 euros in Paris), while Italians and Germans favor more modest homes, slightly below €400,000 on average, which is still much higher than Algerians who do not spend more than 230,000 euros on their purchase real estate in Paris. For their part, the Chinese spend an average of 305,000 euros in Ile-de-France and 413,000 euros in the capital. Finally, Americans spend an average of 558,000 euros on their investment in Paris and 535,000 euros in Île-de-France.

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