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As China’s real estate market spiked in 2016, dozens of Chinese cities followed central government directives and announced local measures to tackle rapidly rising home prices.
These local tightening moves primarily came in the form of controls designed to reduce… Read More>>
Not many Chinese homes have chimneys for Santa to scoot down, but that didn’t stop 90 percent of the country’s households from receiving a most welcome present just in time for Christmas.
All but 10 percent of Chinese families own… Read More>>
China’s central government is aiming all of its bureaucratic weapons at the housing market in the early months of this year, to add some spark to one of the traditional engines of the mainland economy.
The latest evidence of this… Read More>>
Land sales for property development fell by more than 25 percent last year in China, as the country’s real estate industry struggles to cope with falling housing prices and rising land costs.
According to China’s Ministry of Land and Resources,… Read More>>
China’s ongoing decline in housing demand is continuing to hurt land sales, as the country’s property developers have begun shying away from big site acquisitions. The trend towards caution in land buys is a dramatic reversal from last year’s record… Read More>>
As China pushes forward with president Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, the government seems to be paying increasing attention to the country’s real estate market.
In the last four days, three significant steps have been taken to clamp down on corruption… Read More>>
Land sales in China dropped 7.7 percent during the first half of 2014 as the slowdown in housing sales helped trigger a decrease in the amount of land sold to build new projects.
According to a recent report from the… Read More>>
China created a new government agency on Thursday, which normally isn’t big news, but the new bureau set up to track real estate assets nationwide could become a key weapon in Xi Jinping’s struggle to tame his own bureaucracy.
The… Read More>>
The value of land sold in Shanghai during the month of March dipped to less than RMB 10 billion, the lowest volume since April 2013, as the city appears to be reducing the amount of land made available on the… Read More>>
China took a major step towards implementing one of the key mechanisms for gaining better control of the nation’s real estate market recently when it unveiled a trial plan for a national property register.
The move was announced by the… Read More>>
