Nick,
Your question is, I think, rather too specific. If buying anywhere, for personal use or investment purposes, as you say, you must visit the area first as part of your due diligence. Obviously, your criteria will be slightly different in each case. There are many factors to consider, and to a degree, race could be greater or lesser issue, regardless of colour, dependent on your reasons for buying.
Most holiday resorts have their 'areas' popular with certain nationalities, and you may well find some people have problems with that. For example some jingoistic Brits might avoid an area because it's popular with the Germans, say, or the French. This is nothing new; e.g. places like Liverpool, Manchester & London have had 'Chinatown' areas for a couple of hundred years; most major towns & cities have what some would term 'ghetto' areas, in the sense you will find a preponderance of a paticular ethnic grouping in that area.
In my view, yes, race is an issue, but almost a sub conscious one. There are many other factors to consider.
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