As we had expected, the strengthening of the dollar over the past couple of years has weighed on the number of non-resident home buyers. But we doubt the Canadian dollar or renminbi will weaken any further over the next few of years and, with buyers from those two countries accounting for almost 40% of the volume of overseas sales, the share of non-resident buyers should now bottom out.
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