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Cash as opposed to mortgage not actual dollar bills right

You would be surprised.

I'm open to the opportunity, do you have the goods? Surprise us.

Doesn’t “cash” usually just mean no financing contingency?

I would imagine this is not physical cash but funds in a bank account. You would need to launder the money first to get it into the financial system before making the real estate purchase.

That’s what Canadian banking is for, just have a lawyer set up a local account for a foreign entity, transfer money through a Canadian bank and just about everybody will take it next. Or so I hear… https://projects.thestar.com/panama-papers/canada-is-the-wor...

Who knows if that’ll change https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/techlex/canadian-a... or more broadly, https://www.iisd.org/itn/en/2021/06/24/the-end-of-tax-incent...

I talked to someone who made such a purchase - it’s not actual cash, it’s just showing sufficient assets to pay cash, then financing when you close.