chinese buying houses in australia, page-29

Not sure how non-Australian citizen and non-Australian permanent resident Chinese get aroung our Foreign Investmetn Review Board restrictions on buying second hand residential property.

http://www.firb.gov.au/content/real_estate/residential.asp

Maybe their conveyancers just overlook FIRB approval (that would be the way some things would be done in China...not letting legisaltion/rules stand in the way of the deal)