
By now most real estate investors have learned that China’s macroeconomic performance in 2012′s first quarter was disappointing, and it’s also clear that the restrictions on residential real estate are going to be around for a while yet. Which is why 2012 will be the best of times for China’s property investors.
You just shouldn’t [...]

China’s economic data for the first quarter of 2012 is now being reported and the results are not pretty. Perhaps the most outstanding number is the 8.1 percent GDP growth, which underperformed analyst estimates of 8.4 percent, and has led many observers to believe that a significant easing of restrictions is on the way.
And [...]

China’s largest real estate developer, Vanke announced last week that it sold 57 percent more homes in March 2012 than in the same month last year. And during the same week, number two developer, Poly Real Estate trumpeted that its 2011 profits (for the year that ended March 31st) were up 30% compared to the [...]

Forbes China has just published its 2012 list of the biggest philanthropists in China, and the results tell us that while China’s real estate billionaires have made a lot of cash, at least they are not cheapskates. Too bad we can’t say the same about the country’s Internet magnates.
Out of the top [...]

Usually real estate news stories lead off with headlines on millions of renminbi invested or thousands of square metres leased, but a big property story is unfolding piece by piece in Suzhou, and it’s driven by names like Harvard, NUS and Berkeley, instead of by brands like Vanke, Fosun and SOHO.
Ultimately, this narrative about [...]
Real estate speculators hoping for signs of a return to the free-wheeling days of 2009, will have to wait a while longer, according to Freddy Lee, CEO of Hong Kong-based property developer Shui On Land.
Speaking to Bloomberg TV about demand for housing, Lee predicted that conditions in China’s property market in 2012 would [...]

Continuing the downward trend in China’s residential real estate prices, the National Statistics Bureau announced today that the average price paid for residential real estate fell on a month to month basis during February in 45 of the 70 cities surveyed by the bureau. In January, rates had fallen in 47 of the same 70 [...]

In the latest sign of the pressures that China’s restrictions on residential real estate are putting on the nation’s property developers, SOHO China CEO Zhang Xin now contends that the greatest threat to the nation’s development comes from government policies.
In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Zhang Xin contended that the residential property market [...]

A recent report in Beijing’s Legal Evening News, reveals that based on the number of investor immigrants and the minimum investments required to qualify for investor visa programs in various countires, no less than RMB 10 billion ($1.57 billion) has left the country through investments by wealthy Chinese individuals each year since 2009.
Given that [...]

One of the world’s biggest holes started to be dug on Saturday in Tianjin Binhai New Area in preparation for building a shopping mall larger than 74 football fields in this northern Chinese city.
When complete in 2013, SM Tianjin Shopping Center will be the world’s largest free-standing mall and will have required an investment [...]
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