'Buyers from China are more than willing to pay their fair share' - Juwai's CEO on the Tory foreign buyer tax
Carrie Law, CEO of China's No.1 international real estate website, reacts to Theresa May's proposal to charge a higher stamp duty rate to non-UK buyers
Carrie Law was appointed CEO of leading Chinese property portal Juwai.com in 2017. A Hong Kong native fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, Carrie was previously a senior executive with the REA Group, as well as the former General Manager of iProperty Group. Juwai, which means “home overseas”, is visited by thousands of Chinese buyers each day from over 403 cities throughout China, as well as major Chinese communities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.
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