Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Official figures released this week indicate that housing prices in China continue to cool down, although a majority of the country’s largest cities still see prices rising.
According to the latest survey by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, average home… Read More>>
After months of trying to cool down the housing market, China’s government has begun to take steps to revive flagging home sales that have begun to threaten overall economic growth.
On Monday the People’s Bank of China instructed the nation’s… Read More>>
Forget about whether or not China has a real estate bubble, and stop worrying about if this bubble could burst, Japan’s oldest securities brokerage is contending that the collapse of China’s property industry is already upon us.
According to an article in… Read More>>
The city of Tongling in eastern China’s Anhui province became the fourth community in the country to officially relax government restrictions on home sales over the last ten days, as the Chinese economy grapples with a housing slowdown of increasing… Read More>>
A survey by E-House China showed home prices declining on a month-to-month basis for the first time since 2012, as the nation’s real estate market continues to slump due to credit concerns.
The report by CRIC, the information unit of… Read More>>
Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller, who correctly predicted the 2000 tech stock crash as well as the 2008 subprime crisis, was in China last week, and even one of the world’s great financial minds wasn’t sure what to think.
With China’s banks facing competition for deposits from trusts on one side and online wealth management products on another, nearly 90 percent have ended mortgage discounts for first time home buyers.
The end of preferential rates was revealed in a… Read More>>
Wenzhou, the wealthy port city in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, was once famous for its savvy real estate speculators. Now, however, this centre for the country’s new wealth has become noteworthy for the ongoing slide of its real estate market.
Assets under management by China’s trust industry grew by 46 percent during 2013, as the industry — and seemingly the nations’s investors managed to shrug off the potential for default in the country’s loosely regulated shadow banking industry.
The China… Read More>>
This week, two more Chinese real estate developers began raising dollar-denominated debt financing as China’s government struggles to restrict lending and deflate a housing price bubble. In an interesting twist, both developers had already received significant investments from Hong Kong… Read More>>
