The US government has sold one of its biggest properties in the city under a shroud of secrecy amid worsening tensions between Beijing and Washington. ( read original story …)
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China Evergrande Offers 30% Discount to Boost Property Sales
China Evergrande Group kicked off a nationwide sales promotion with a 30% discount on all real estate properties as the developer tries to boost sales and meet its target of cutting debt by half. (…
Hangzhou, home to China’s new billionaires, gets a dose of property-cooling measures as peak demand looms
The city of many tech billionaires gets a dose of market-cooling measures after similar efforts in Shenzhen and Nantong near Shanghai. ( read original story …)
China Can’t Afford to Let Property Crash
As China’s economy picks up after the pandemic, the last thing you might expect is a renewed credit squeeze in the real estate industry. So the imposition of leverage thresholds for developers has … ( read…
China Developers Face Harsh Liquidity Test as Curbs Loom
Already, China’s regulator of the vast interbank market took a step to curb the amount developers can raise, people familiar have said. It’s bad timing for developers. Real estate firms … ( read original story…
What the arrest of Texas A&M professor says about China and the need to protect intellectual property
The arrest last week of a Texas A&M University professor on charges of conspiracy, making false statements and wire fraud illustrates the … ( read original story …)
The Delicate Task of Dealing With China’s Most Debt-Burdened Property Giants
Reducing leverage may be good for some Chinese property developers, but cash-starved local governments are desperately dependent on their land purchases. ( read original story …)
China Evergrande aims to list property management unit in HK this year
China’s major property developer Evergrande said on Monday it aims to complete the listing of its property management unit in Hong Kong this year. ( read original story …)
Op-ed: What Japan’s 1980s boom and bust can tell us about the Chinese economy
Three major vulnerabilities emerge in China’s economy at a potential turning point in its relations with the world, says Federated Hermes portfolio manager Steve Chiavarone. ( read original story …)
China investors brace for record defaults in risky end to 2020
Some fund managers are bracing for defaults on domestic Chinese debt Biejing: China’s fragile economic recovery is ushering in a dangerous new phase for the nation’s $4.1 trillion corporate bond … ( read original story…
How China Targets Scientists via Global Network of Recruiting Stations
China is targeting top scientific and technological expertise in the U.S. and other advanced nations through an expanding network of more than 600 talent-recruitment stations around the world, a new … ( read original story…
Investors are piling into China’s offices, shops and retail space, defying spending slumps across Asia-Pacific real estate markets
Property buyers piled into China’s commercial and retail real estate in the three months ended June even as the country was barely out of its coronavirus outbreak, outpacing demand across the rest of … (…
China’s property investment in July quickens to over one-year high
China’s July property investment grew at the quickest clip since April last year, underpinned by solid construction activity and easier lending as the economy gradually recovers from the coronavirus … ( read original story …)