尽管中国投资者在美国大手笔花钱，但实际上他们可以花得更多——让居外网联席首席执行官安祖耀（Andrew Taylor）分享其独特的见解：

居外网联席首席执行官冼明（Simon Henry），四月曾在CNBC 财经电视台亚太频道中谈到中国人在哪些国家购买最贵的豪宅。看看他的清单，我意识到美国榜上无名，为什么？

这是因为，美国吸引着不同需求层次的买家，他们购买的房产分布在各个价格区间；而那些有着最高中国买家购房均价的国家，只吸引优质客户。

的确，中国买家在购置美国房产方面可花了不少钱。纽约的房地产业内人士Bob Knakal预估，在未来几年内，将会有逾500亿美元的中国资金注入纽约房地产市场。其他预估，2015年中国境外房地产投资将达到200亿美元左右。

对于那些有境外投资需求的中国人来说，美国是头号市场，其地位要远远超过第二位市场澳大利亚和迎头赶上的英国、加拿大、德国等。

除了房地产，中国人还是美国最大的游客、外国留学生和零售扫货大军的来源。尽管如此，中国人在美国的平均购房价不在最高之列。

在那张名单上位列版首的是加勒比海地区的天堂圣基茨岛（Saint Kitts）和尼维斯岛（Nevis），中国人在那的看房均价是11,918,651美元。另外，印尼（想想“巴厘岛”）、摩纳哥、圣巴托洛缪岛 (Saint-Bart)、斐济和牙买加等也在名单上。

在某些案例中，中国买家在美国置业花的钱确实比在其他国家多。但美国也吸引了大量其它层次的购房者。

美国有几十万（或几百万）的中国投资者，购买价格在20万美元至150万美元之间的房产。但美国也有一大批购买豪宅的中国投资者。把这些都计算在内，中国投资者在美国的平均购房价为725,510美元。这一数据比美国2月202,600美元的现房销售中位价要高出2.5倍。

房地产经纪人得到的结论是，中国投资者购买的房产在每一个价格区间都有。

Why don’t Chinese spend more on US homes?

Although Chinese investors spend a lot in the US, it's not as much as it could be – by Andrew Taylor, co-CEO of Juwai.com.

My co-CEO Simon Henry was on CNBC Asia in April talking about the countries where Chinese buy the most expensive homes.

Looking at his list, I noticed that the U.S. was not on it. Why not?

It’s because the U.S. is a destination for buyers at every price range. The countries with the most expensive average price for Chinese buyers tend to attract only premium customers.

Chinese buyers certainly spend a lot of money on American real estate.

Bob Knakal in New York City estimates that the next several years will see more than $50 billion of Chinese cash injected into Big Apple real estate alone.

Other estimates put total Chinese outbound real estate investment in 2015 at about $20 billion.

The U.S. is the No. 1 market for these investments, well ahead of second-place Australia and runner-ups such as the UK, Canada and Germany.

Besides real estate, Chinese are America’s top source of tourists, foreign students and visiting retail spenders.

Despite all this, the U.S. is not among the 10 countries where Chinese spend the most on average for real estate.

No, topping that list is the Caribbean paradise of Saint Kitts and Nevis, where Chinese buyers look at property with an average price of $11,918,651.

Also on the list are Indonesia (think “Bali”), Monaco, Saint Barts, Fiji and Jamaica.

In some cases, Chinese buyers are paying more for a home in the US than in these countries. But the US also attracts huge numbers of buyers at other price points.

So the U.S. has tens (or hundreds) of thousands of Chinese buyers in the $200,000 to $1.5 million range. It also has a smaller, but still significant, number of consumers in the highest price ranges. Feed them all into the calculator, and you get an average Chinese buyer price of $725,510.

This amount is more than two and a half times higher than the February existing home median sales price of $202,600.

The takeaway for agents is that there might be a Chinese buyer at every price range.