As China’s property sales have slowed down and bad news has seeped into the country’s real estate market, many developers have been scrambling to invest in everything from US real estate to bottled water.
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As China’s property sales have slowed down and bad news has seeped into the country’s real estate market, many developers have been scrambling to invest in everything from US real estate to bottled water.
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In another sign of the Chinese government’s determination to corral its unruly real estate market, two more developers received regulatory approval for new stock sales, during the same week that a private real estate developer collapsed after having exhausted… Read More>>

As a credit crunch caused the collapse of a private Chinese real estate developer this week, and following just two weeks after the country’s first commercial bond default, dollar-denominated bonds from the country’s real estate developers are suffering on regional… Read More>>

Shanghai’s Grade A office market is expected to nearly double by 2020, reaching 13 million square metres and surpassing Hong Kong as the largest commercial market in Greater China according to a pair of studies released today.
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Greenland Group, which has gained fame as China’s most aggressive outbound investor, plans to go public this year through a backdoor listing on the Shanghai stock exchange, according to a statement released on Monday.
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Growth in average new home prices in China’s 70 biggest cities slowed to 8.7 percent in February compared to the same period last year, down from 9.6 percent growth the previous month according to analysis of official figures by Mingtiandi.

Credit ratings agency Fitch has reviewed the recent collapse of a property developer in eastern China, and find that this case represents industry trends that investors should be aware of. The text of the agency’s statement follows.
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Share and bond prices for China’s leading property companies fell sharply today following reports that a Ningbo real estate developer had collapsed, leaving behind RMB 3.5 billion in debt and more than 100 unhappy creditors.
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A private real estate developer in the Chinese city of Ningbo reportedly failed yesterday under the weight of RMB 3.5 billion ($566.6 million) in debts, and the company’s owner is said to have been detained by authorities.
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Despite a flurry of news reports questioning the credit worthiness of China’s real estate developers and raising the spectre of potential bond defaults, Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, is launching a new fund targetting residential opportunities in the nation’s second-tier cities.