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Sorry, I don’t understand the relevance of this to the question above. Maybe I wasn’t clear. Let me try to rephrase that question:

Above, 'PragmaticPulp wrote that:

> I visited a friend who lived in a high rise and barely saw anyone else come and go from the building the entire week I was there. From the windows we could see into other nearby high rises, most of which were empty. Empty not because they were for sale, but because they had been purchased as investment vehicles by foreign investors who had no intention of ever living there.

And my question is how they knew that those apartments were empty because they were owned by some foreign investor (who presumably also wasn’t interested in making money on rent)?

I don’t understand how rules about conveyancing answer that question.



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