5 Top Retirement Havens Where Real Estate Purchase Comes With Residency– The Huffington Post rates Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Malaysia and Ecuador as top destinations for retirees looking to gain residence by investment.

‘New normal’: Vancouver’s stock of high-end homes overwhelmingly going to Chinese buyers – MacDonald Realty executive Dan Scarrow says 70% of the 1,500 Vancouver homes his company sold in 2014 went to Chinese buyers, many of whom gained residence through Quebec’s IIP following the termination of the federal program.

GAO says feds lack proper oversight of EB-5 investor visa program – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency responsible for EB-5 oversight, does not have a strategy or an information system in place to assess the program’s actual economic benefits or the risk of fraud, according to a reportfrom the Government Accountability Office (GAO).