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A Chinese company listed on the New York Stock Exchange is beginning to develop residential property in the U.S., hoping to tap into the hot demand among Chinese investors for U.S. apartments. 一家在纽约证券交易所(New York Stock Exchange)上市的中国公司开始涉足美国居住房产市场，希望利用中国投资者对美国公寓的火热需求在美国有所作为。 Xinyuan Real Estate Co. XIN +3.40% purchased a site last month in Williamsburg, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, for its first development in the U.S., a 216-unit condominium building. The company also is scouting for other U.S. projects, planning to sell about 40% of the units it builds to Chinese investors. 鑫苑（中国）置业有限公司(Xinyuan Real Estate Co.)上月在纽约布鲁克林区的威廉斯堡买了块地，用于该公司在美国进行首个房地产开发项目──一幢有着216户的共管公寓大楼。此外，鑫苑置业还在美国搜寻其它项目，并计划将所建楼盘的40%左右卖给中国投资者。 'Chinese developers have money and access to a customer base that American developers can't get to,' says Omer Ozden, an adviser to Xinyuan and other Chinese investors in the market for U.S. real estate. 'If right out of the gate you can get 40% the building sold to mainland Chinese, it's going to be a successful project.' Matt Craig / The Wall Street Journal鑫苑置业在纽约布鲁克林修建公寓大楼。为鑫苑置业及其他投资美国房地产市场的中国投资商提供咨询的欧阳默(Omer Ozden)说，中国开发商财力雄厚，并且有客户基础，而美国开发商则没办法获得这些客户；如果能很快将这座楼的40%卖给中国内地人士，那项目就成功了。 | 
