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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-19/when-correlation-causation-most-important-chart-world-if-youre-realtor-london-or-nyc








The initiative will start in two of the nation’s major destinations for global wealth: Manhattan and Miami-Dade County. It will shine a light on the darkest corner of the real estate market: all-cash purchases made by shell companies that often shield purchasers’ identities.


It is the first time the federal government has required real estate companies to disclose names behind all-cash transactions, and it is likely to send shudders through the real estate industry, which has benefited enormously in recent years from a building boom increasingly dependent on wealthy, secretive buyers.
The logic behind the move is clear: "this initiative is part of a broader federal effort to increase the focus on money laundering in real estate. Treasury and federal law enforcement officials said they were putting greater resources into investigating luxury real estate sales that involve shell companies like limited liability companies, often known as L.L.C.s; partnerships; and other entities."
...  a top Treasury official, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, said her agency had seen instances in which multimillion-dollar homes were being used as safe deposit boxes for ill-gotten gains, in transactions made more opaque by the use of anonymous shell companies.

“We are concerned about the possibility that dirty money is being put into luxury real estate,” said Ms. Calvery, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Treasury unit running the initiative. “We think some of the bigger risk is around the least transparent transactions.”
Our only question is what took so long?
What happens next remains to be seen, but now that the buyer anonymity of luxury real estate buyers is gone, and with it the opportunity to launder illegal money in the US, much to the chagrin of the NAR, we would expect a substantial drop in both demand and prices for the one segment that has so far been the most stable support of the entire U.S. housing market.

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