This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on March 21, 2017. HONG KONG: Middle-class mainlander Laura Zhang found the idea of owning a home overseas irresistible after being bombarded by commercials for an…
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METALS-Copper eases in thin trade, traders eye fresh China property curbs
MELBOURNE, March 20 London copper slipped on Monday on jitters that Beijing would set down tougher measures to cool its housing sector, although trade was thin as markets digested the results of a meeting of…
Property demand in China to continue: Swire CEO
Guy Bradley, chief executive of Swire Properties, weighs in on the demand for retail and commercial real estate in the Chinese and Hong Kong markets. ( read original story …)
Breaking Down China's Property Market
Mar.19 — Tao dong, senior adviser for private banking in APAC for Credit Suisse, discusses China’s rising home prices, how the prices are impacting property developers and what he thinks the PBOC can do to…
China to control excessive credit flow into property sector
China will continue to implement policies aimed at preventing a property bubble in its cities. With the red-hot property market picking up pace in February, China revealed plans to curb the rapid flow of bank…
China stocks wobble on worries about fresh property curbs
SHANGHAI: China stocks struggled for traction on Monday as fears of fresh property cooling measures and broader monetary policy tightening hit shares of developers The Beijing municipal government announced new steps to rein in its…
China property sales surge despite government efforts to cool market
BEIJING China’s property sales surged in the first two months of the year despite government measures to cool the market, though growth in real estate investment showed signs of easing, according to official data on…
Deutsche Bank Warns: Chinese Property bubble is getting bigger
China’s property market has become a key driver of growth and fiscal expansion in recent years, and as a result, policymakers are unlikely to move to constrict this vital pillar of the economy. Indeed, according…
China to curb “excessive” credit for property sector -state planner head
BEIJING, March 19 China will control rapid flows of bank credit to the property sector to help contain risks, the head of the country’s top economic planning agency said on Sunday. This comes at a…
China home price growth picks up pace in February, gains spread to smaller cities
BEIJING China’s red-hot property market picked up pace in February after pulling back for four months, with average new home prices in the nation’s 70 major cities rising slightly in spite of a raft of…
China-Based Property Developer Country Garden Inks Agreement for Pacificview's New Project Forest City in Malaysia
The project is a milestone for the fulfilment of the Chinese government’s One Belt, One Road initiative SHUNDE, China, March 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — On 11 March, His Royal Highness Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan…
China pledges to contain home prices as property market defies curbs
BEIJING China added a pledge to contain the country’s fast-rising home prices to its annual work report on Thursday, as a red-hot property market resists cooling measures and purchase restrictions spread out from the biggest…
China Kicks Property Tax to the Curb—For Now
BEIJING—This year it seemed China was finally going to make headway on an idea familiar to U.S. homeowners: a property tax. For many Chinese families, owning a home is one of few options to build…
