Some of the scheme mentioned in the article to avoid the FBT may work but at the cost of leaving the buyers with a tangled web of legal ownership to the property and unenforceable verbal agreements .   An overriding rule about reale estate transactions in a country like Canada is that all agreements about the property have to be in writing or they are unenforceable .   It sounds as  if  these Chinese buyers who are desperate to move money out of their country,  do not understand this principle.   Many of them are in line to learn a hard and expensive lesson when disputes arise about the property and disputes always arise.