text: The report, compiled by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, showed that mainlanders and foreign citizens gravitated toward higher-end purchases.
  
  The average sale price of homes sold to foreign buyers from 2008 to 2015 was $785,604, and the average sales price for mainlanders was $630,390.
  
  By comparison, the average sale price of homes sold to local buyers over the same period was $478,189.
  
  The report showed that some 38 percent of U.S. Mainland buyers were from California, 10.5 percent were from Texas, and 8.5 percent were from Washington State.
  
  Among international buyers, 44 percent were Canadian and 38 percent were from Japan.
  
  Meanwhile, buyers from Hong Kong had the highest average home price – at $1 million, followed by buyers from China, whose average home price was $936,000.
  
  The report comes as the state grapples with a housing shortage that’s pricing out many Hawaii families.