Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The COVID-19 pandemic rocked real estate markets across Asia Pacific during the first quarter, and weighed on investor sentiment after property transactions had reached record highs during 2019.
This year, government stimulus packages have provided protection for jobs and livelihoods,… Read More>>
After showing signs of stabilising in December, China’s housing prices fell by an average of nearly 5.5 percent in February, compared to the same month a year ago. The faster fall in home prices came as China’s spring festival holiday… Read More>>
China’s biggest property developer is saying that the country’s biggest real estate market has bottomed out, but one of China Vanke’s top officials cautions that no quick rebound is in site.
Speaking at the company’s annual meeting with securities companies,… Read More>>
China appears to have avoided a meltdown in its real estate market this year, but home sales are continuing to slide, according to official figures released this week.
In a report released this week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed… Read More>>
The city of Xining in northwestern China became the latest Chinese metropolis to abolish home purchase restrictions this week, as the country continues to struggle with a slowdown in the real estate market.
The capital city of sparsely populated Qinghai… Read More>>
Morgan Stanley’s leading analyst of China’s economy sounded a reassuring note about the country’s real estate market today, by telling investors that changes in government policy will keep the troubled sector from falling more than 20 percent this year.
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Sales of property developer bonds returned to China’s domestic market recently in a sign that the Xi government is not yet quite ready to real estate companies to go under. At least in most cases.
Just last week, Shanghai-listed Jiangsu… Read More>>
China moved to prop up funding for individual homebuyers today by allowing the country’s first offering of mortgage-backed debt sales, after banning the financial products in 2007 after they helped bring about the meltdown of the US economy.
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Although China’s real estate market is having a rough year, China Vanke, the country’s biggest developer, just declared a 44 percent increase in contracted sales.
According to an announcement from the company on Friday, the newly-Hong Kong listed real estate… Read More>>
A report issued yesterday by one of China’s four largest banks said that the country’s real estate market is at an inflection point, but dismissed the likelihood of a hard landing in the sector, or for significant knock-on effects in… Read More>>
