HONG KONG/SINGAPORE — Foreign investors are shying away from deploying capital to commercial properties in China’s beleaguered real estate market, with the remaining players pinning their hopes on …
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China’s Home Sales Slump Again, Signaling Crisis Not Over Yet
A fresh batch of China property data suggests that the sector remains in bad shape, heaping pressure on policymakers to take bolder action to address what has become a major drag on the economy.Sales …
China tenant shocked by grisly past of home after stumbling upon TV crime show
An unsuspecting rental tenant in a modest property in China was shocked to discover from a short video that his home was the scene of a grisly murder 10 years ago.
How should investors make sense of China’s Plenum, priorities and politics?
CHINA’S leaders had an unenviable job at their Third Plenum from Jul 15 to 18. The meeting – so called because of its order in a cycle of policy-setting summits held every five years to…
China tenant shocked by grisly past of home after stumbling upon TV crime show
An unsuspecting rental tenant in a modest property in China was shocked to discover from a short video that his home was the scene of a grisly murder 10 years ago.
The Third Plenum and China’s Economic Growth Challenges
Third Plenum highlights reforms for housing, fiscal policy, and addressing challenges, but lacks focus on stimulating consumption
China July non-manufacturing activity expands at slower pace
China’s non-manufacturing activity expanded more slowly in July, an official factory survey showed on Wednesday, pointing to slowing domestic demand for services and reinforcing how troubling a …
China’s factory activity contracts for third straight month
China’s manufacturing activity fell for a third consecutive month in July, according to an official survey, increasing pressure on policymakers to speed up stimulus measures to boost the world’s …
China’s Urban Investment Firms Get Little Built After Snapping Up Nearly Half of Land Auctioned in Last Few Years
(Yicai) July 30 — Urban investment and development companies, which are controlled by China’s local governments, secured the rights to develop nearly half of all the land plots offered at auction in …
China Pledges Steps to Shore Up Flagging Economy
Chinese leaders said they would take more aggressive steps to boost consumer spending and head off a worsening set of economic challenges.
Liquidators struggle to recover cash from China’s broke builders
Liquidators trying to recoup at least a fraction of creditors’ investments in defaulted Chinese builders are running into dead-ends. Read more at straitstimes.com.
China property winding-up sagas show difficulty of recovering assets
Many developers “have little offshore assets to sell,” said the source. “There’s also a cross-border issue that ties to China’s policy of ensuring delivery. Additionally, the property market is …
There’s a frightening new bubble building in China
China’s property bubble has popped, its economy is spluttering and sharemarket all over the place. Now there’s a new problem to watch.
