In London, 60% of luxury-market buyers were nonlocal in 2012, according to Christie's International Real Estate.

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But some artists, such as American Impressionists Childe Hassam and John Twachtman, are represented by nonlocal subjects.

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On Wednesday, in the rural outskirts of Bandung, a highlands city of more than two million people, police besieged a house being rented by nonlocal Indonesians.

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