Sony said the yen's recent fall, which makes its goods cheaper for foreign buyers, boosted sales.
Hong Kong, for example, has introduced home loan curbs and higher stamp duties for foreign buyers.
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The rise in the pound, however, will not be welcomed by exporters as it makes their goods more expensive for foreign buyers.
But for foreign buyers, estate properties like these may be more valuable as investments than for their historical value or distinctive features.
This is because a strong yen makes Japanese exports more expensive for foreign buyers, and also cuts the value of exporters' foreign profits.
Although there are no special residency requirements or specific limitations for foreign buyers, many discover that the fairy-tale image is different from the reality.
To make matters worse, the carmakers have also had to tackle a strengthening Japanese currency, which has risen more than 7% against the US dollar since April last year, making Japanese cars more expensive for foreign buyers.
Alexander Gorra, head of the international department at BNY Mellon ARX in Rio de Janeiro, said that Japanese inflows into fixed assets began to slow in October 2010 when the government increased the financial operations tax, known as the IOF, for foreign buyers of government debt.
Cheap loans and low barriers for foreign property buyers are also a draw.
Demand is also coming from abroad, with an influx of foreign buyers looking for single-person pads.
Hamptons International, another estate agent, estimates that the British now account for around 60% of foreign buyers in certain areas of southern Spain and Portugal.
Although vehicles like the big Jeep Grand Cherokee have some appeal in places like China and the Middle East, most foreign buyers are looking for something more modest.
Housing prices in the big eastern seaboard cities like Beijing and Shanghai remain high compared to where they were five years ago, but have been coming down month over month due to the current policies that curb lending to the sector and restrict home purchases, especially for non-resident home buyers, foreign investors, and second or third home buyers.
Its only concession to the metropolitan bias in the fashion industry is to rent a showroom in London for a few weeks a year to meet foreign buyers.
If the dollar is weakened, American goods priced in dollars will be cheaper relative to products priced in healthier currencies, and may, at least for a time, be more attractive to potential foreign buyers.
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Foreign buyers could arrange to keep their debt for U.S. acquisitions "upstream" at the parent's level to take advantage of it.
Foreign buyers provide an extra source of demand for swanky properties.
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The delay will be unwelcome to foreign buyers, who are ready with their bids for the seized assets on December 15th.
The recent currency controls put in place by the government have made it harder for Argentines to procure American dollars to buy property, but foreign buyers should find no problems.
The high-rise condo market in Miami, for instance, has been buoyed by surprisingly strong demand from foreign buyers, and the Phoenix housing market has recently seen a large jump in demand from investors.
If U.S. buyers who love their foreign cars start patronizing those brands for their SUVs, and SUV demand stays flat, Detroit's overcapacity--and already thin profits--could deteriorate further.
Singapore is especially attractive to wealthy overseas buyers, analysts say, because of its strong legal protections for foreign investors.
This is why Italy's upcoming government bond auctions will be scrutinized for any sign that investors are losing confidence in Italian debt - particularly since foreign buyers of Italian debt are already few and far between.
Perhaps foreign buyers will come to the rescue, but the just-released numbers for Q4 are not encouraging.
In practice, however, these arrangements make it possible for an unscrupulous foreign entity to register its offering overseas and then market its bonds to Qualified Institutional Buyers through a U.S. holding company.
He notes the influx of foreign buyers and visitors, particularly from Latin American countries like Brazil, have buoyed demand for housing and kept expenses relatively high for residents.
Colombia is considering whether to reintroduce a measure to require foreign buyers to deposit 30% of the price of their financial investments in the country for a year at its central bank with no interest.
Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution notes another reason for the outflows: a huge increase in trade credit extended to foreign (mainly South-East Asian) buyers of Chinese goods.
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