Sales of China’s residential housing will drop this year, along with a deceleration of property development investment, while consolidation among developers will intensify, according to a report released Tuesday by the Chinese Academy of Social…
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Chinese buyers snap up gold bars amid fears of war, falling yuan and property slump
Mao Mao, the shop assistant at China Gold in downtown Shanghai, says there are three reasons why Chinese investors have been snapping up gold bars this year and they are all to do with fear.…
Chinese property buyers lead foreign investors in Australia – report
The figures in the Foreign Investment Review Board’s 2016 annual report highlight the huge Chinese appetite for Australian property even as economists expect the housing market to ease in 2017 amid rising lending rates. “For…
Shanghai steps up supervision of red-hot property market
Property prices have soared in China’s biggest cities such as financial hub Shanghai and capital Beijing since last year, prompting regulators to step up control to cool the market to avoid a crash. Shanghai’s housing…
One Word of Advice for Investors on Chinese Property Stocks: Run!
So I sit up and take notice when someone makes a bearish call. China property analyst Alan Jin is a grizzly standing tall when it comes to Chinese real estate right now. He’s predicting a…
China's biggest property markets still hot, prices may rebound if curbs lifted: People's Daily
BEIJING Home prices in China’s biggest cities would likely rebound if government curbs are relaxed, a senior official from the country’s top economic planner was quoted as saying, suggesting authorities are in no mood to…
Property boom creating China’s great divide
An epic property boom restricted to city dwellers has opened a wealth gap that continues to widen in China, setting back a state campaign to ease poverty and shunting rural dwellers from the middle-class dream.…
China likely to further tighten controls on property market
(ECNS) — China may roll out more measures to address a sizzling property market that could potentially undermine the economy, according to a report by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Data from the National…
China property market to remain stable, competition to intensify: report
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) — China’s property sector will remain stable, but competition will intensify as sales slow and liquidity tightens, said a Moody’s report on Monday. China’s national contracted property sales will slow from…
‘Apartheid Without the Racism’: How China Keeps Rural Folks Down
YANJIAO, China—An epic property boom restricted to city dwellers has opened a wealth gap that continues to widen in China, setting back a state campaign to ease poverty and shunting rural dwellers from the middle-class…
More small property developers might go bust in China, says Moody's
HONG KONG — In China’s property sector, the strong are only getting stronger. This is the observation by ratings agency Moody’s, which suggests that more smaller property developers are likely to go bankrupt in an…
Hour of reckoning is beckoning for China’s over-inflated economy
China’s parallel property and infrastructure booms, locked in by government policy for yet another year, have driven the welcome recovery in commodity prices that has in turn ensured Australia maintains its magnificent record of growth.…
Beijing gov't says property curbs showing initial results despite March price gains
BEIJING The municipal government of China’s capital said on Wednesday that new property curbs unveiled in March have started to cool the red-hot housing market, but it will take some time before the frothy market…