50% of condos...sold and empty. How many is that, I wonder?  A few hundred?  So?

"overseas sourced money here in Richmond." Yup, likely true, richmond anon;  the ethnicity of over half Richmond's population has Asian heritage. But wait...half of WHAT?  Ans; about 213,000. And, yeah, they're likely behind the 80% increase of housing costs ...in Richmond.   But elsewhere? Not likely, when Stats Canada reports just 17% of Metro Vancouver are ethnic Chinese--and this percentage INCLUDES that 100,000 or so in Richmond.  17% of WHAT, I hear others asking.  Ans: 2.3 million.  That's Metro Vancouver, minus Richmond. 

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