Cheap labor from places such as India and the Philippines is seen as pulling down wages for Singaporeans, even as property buying by wealthy foreigners pushes up home prices.
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The Land Registry figures show some startlingly high price increases in some of the wealthier parts of London, driven by the continued influx of money being invested by foreigners seeking a safe home for their cash.
Also in October, Hong Kong enacted a 15% buyer's stamp duty, or BSD, against home purchases by foreigners.
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But the move risks alienating some wealthy foreigners, including the Chinese, whose home-buying activity dropped markedly last year after the government imposed the original 10% surcharge.
WSJ: Singapore Fee Stings Wealthy House Buyers��Except Americans
Beyond London, the signs are of restaurants, bars and hotels struggling, as people stayed at home to watch sport or as foreigners kept away from Olymptastic Britain.
Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened.
These losers were foreigners who had not paid taxes in their home countries on the amounts they invested with Bernie and, therefore, could not come forward to assert a claim without risking prosecution.
The pain will be sharpest in Moscow, whose economy has flourished largely thanks to the bubble in financial services and to at least 50, 000 high-earning foreigners, increasing numbers of whom are now heading home or contemplating new careers as consultants.
"It's very expensive, probably due to the high demand from foreigners, " Singaporean Kelvin Lee, 32, said of residential home prices.
WSJ: Singapore Fee Stings Wealthy House Buyers��Except Americans
One study found that 78% of foreigners selling goods in South Africa also bought South African goods to sell back home.
Although home to less than a fifth of all Germans, and far fewer foreigners than the west, the eastern states accounted for nearly half the 746 violent crimes linked to far-right extremists last year.
They also had escaped the stamp duty paid by foreigners, but now will have to pay a 5% fee when purchasing their first home.
WSJ: Singapore Fee Stings Wealthy House Buyers��Except Americans
With Chinese and Brazilian mining firms already queuing up to do business in Mozambique, the government here has imposed limits on the number of foreigners each company can hire, and there are plenty of stories of disillusioned Portuguese heading home without finding work.
Foreigners, mostly Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian and Indian, made up 36% of all new-home sales so far this year.
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