"Chinese investors have spent an estimated $17.1 billion on commercial real estate and $93 billion on homes in the U.S. over the past five year, a recent report by Asia Society and Rosen Consulting Group found."

http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/chinese-investment-us-real-estate-poised-grow-substantially-new-report-projects 

Was any of you being hired to perform property title research?  Probably some of the largest title insurance companies benefited a lot from such investments and some of these insurance companies may be your clients...