Foreign Ownership of Australian Residential Land - by Country of Control

Number of registered foreign-owned residential property interests in Australia, by country of control. Source: ATO Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets - Residential Land workbook, Table 9.

Source: Australian Taxation Office · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id ato.FOREIGN_OWNERSHIP_RESIDENTIAL_BY_COUNTRY

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Number of registered foreign-owned residential property interests in Australia, by country of control. Source: ATO Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets - Residential Land workbook, Table 9. Reporting periods: 30 June 2024 and 30 June 2025 (annual snapshot). This is THE most-cited slice of the foreign-ownership register for residential property - answers "which countries control the most AU residential property?", "is Chinese foreign ownership growing or shrinking?", "how does Hong Kong compare to Singapore for AU residential investment?". Customer audience: real-estate analysts (Domain, REA, CoreLogic), property funds, FIRB-context policy researchers, journalists, political offices, financial-planning teams. Top countries at 30 June 2025 (registered interests count): China 22,272 · Hong Kong 3,396 · Singapore 1,978 · Malaysia 1,795 · Vietnam 1,658 · Japan 1,711 · India 1,235 · Indonesia 1,133 · UK 1,070 · Taiwan 979 · USA 484. China declined slightly from 23,550 in the 2024 snapshot. For domestic ag-land foreign ownership history, see FOREIGN_OWNERSHIP_AG_LAND. For total residential interests by state and property type, see the other tables in the source XLSX (not yet curated in this dataset). Note on shape: transposed layout where each row is a Country and each period (30 June 2024, 30 June 2025) is a column in the source workbook. The shaping layer melts these into long-format (country, period, value) records.

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