On Gatsby's north shore, Chinese luxury home buyers pause as curbs bite

Jericho, NY

AMONG the sprawling colonial homes and well-tended lawns on the north shore of New York's Long Island, there are signs that Chinese policies crafted 11,000 kilometres away are taking a toll.

In the past year, there has been a slowdown in the stream of affluent Chinese looking for luxury homes in the area - widely thought to have been the setting for F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby - property brokers said.