China’s property crisis is expected to worsen as new home sales plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned “ghost town” …
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China induces new measures to fix property crisis, after data shows house prices down nearly 10% this year
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China to let local governments buy homes, cut mortgage rates to revive property sector
China will allow local government authorities to buy some homes at “reasonable” prices to provide affordable housing, Vice Premier He Lifeng told an online meeting on housing policy on Friday, the …
China stimulus starts with a bond, not a bang
Beijing’s economic stimulus has finally arrived. China’s Ministry of Finance on Friday will sell 1 trillion yuan, or $138 billion, of ultra-long special sovereign bonds. This paves the way for more policy support to spur…
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China announces sweeping steps to stabilise crisis-hit property sector
China on Friday announced some of its most sweeping measures yet to stabilise the crisis-hit property sector, allowing local governments to buy “some” apartments, relaxing mortgage rules and pledging further efforts to deliver unfinished homes.
China rolls out new measures to fix its property crisis, spur growth
The announcement by the People’s Bank of China said that effective Saturday, the interest rate for first-time housing provident fund loans for under 5 years will be cut by 0.25 percentage point to …
COVID KP.2 Variant: China Says New Variant Unlikely To Cause Fresh Wave of Infections
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