IMF’s Zhu Says China Set for Soft-Landing – and more of today’s China Real Estate Links | March 20, 2012

Here is a list of the day’s latest China real estate news collected from around the web:

• IMF’s Zhu Says China Set for Soft-Landing

  An International Monetary Fund official said China will avoid an economic hard-landing as government data showed property prices falling in most of the nation’s biggest cities,

• S&P’s Fu Says China’s Developers Face Liquidity Risk – Video

  Bei Fu, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Standard & Poor’s, talks about the outlook for China’s real estate market and nation’s property developers.

• China to be hotbed of luxury hotels

  Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc’s 2011 annual report showed that 61 percent of the hotels that company has planned will be built in the Asia-Pacific region; China alone will be home to 44 percent of them.

• InterContinental Starts Brand Targeting Chinese Travelers

  InterContinental Hotels Group Plc (IHG), the world’s largest provider of hotel rooms, will begin opening locations as soon as next year under a new brand designed to appeal to Chinese travelers.

• Home Prices Fall in Chinese Cities, Report Says

  Home prices in China posted the worst performance in a year in February, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics said Sunday, with the prices in almost half of the cities monitored by the government falling from a year ago as China maintained curbs on the property market.

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