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Qianhai is Shenzhen’s answer to Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone, and investor enthusiasm for the special economic zone is already paying dividends for China Vanke.
According to a recent story in the South China Morning Post, a new 60,000 square metre… Read More>>
The bureaucrats running the city of Hangzhou in eastern China have reached back into their command-economy toolkits for a solution to rapidly decaying housing prices – make discounts subject to government approval.
The Hangzhou government announced on Wednesday that real… Read More>>
At least one investment firm has made its position clear on where money is headed this year, and according to fund manager Harvest Real Estate Investment that direction is out of China.
According to a story in the Wall Street… Read More>>
It’s promotion week here in China’s real estate community with multiple agency executives getting bumped up the ladder, plus new leadership at Citic and a new head of asset management for JLL in Greater China. Read on for details.
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Listening to downloaded music has been around for decades, but now – thanks to a Guangdong-based architecture firm – you can see the music that you’re downloading. (But only if you’re walking past the headquarters of the right online music company… Read More>>
The cutback in credit to China’s property sector was spelled out by the country’s central bank on Friday, when new figures revealed that growth in loans dropped 1.57 percent in the first quarter of this year.
According to a statement… Read More>>
China led the world in new shopping space in 2013 with nine of the ten leading cities for new mall completion coming from China, according to a recently published report.
The study by real estate services company CBRE found that… Read More>>
One eastern Chinese city has found a quick solution for propping up a declining housing market – creating more residents.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Wuxi in Jiangsu province has begun relaxing the requirements for securing… Read More>>
Chinese investment firm Citic Capital Holdings Limited and Portuguese mall operator Sonae Sierra recently announced a new joint venture to lease and manage shopping centres in China. The new company intends to provide services to the owners of the millions… Read More>>
In a shift with major implications for Shanghai’s manufacturing sector and for the prospects of logistics developers, the government of China’s commercial capital is readying sweeping changes in industrial land use rights, that include cutting back land use terms to… Read More>>
