Just under one year after resigning as head of the development giant that he founded, former China Vanke chairman Wang Shi has resurfaced as co-chairman of a Changsha-based builder that once hoped to construct China’s tallest building, according to a… Read More>>
Shanghai 2nd-Hand Home Prices Reach Record High and More Greater China Real Estate Headlines
It’s dragon boat day here on the mainland, but there’s still news to report, as second-hand home prices in China’s capital reach record levels, and a plan to build the world’s tallest tower in a Chinese second-tier city run afoul… Read More>>
Changsha’s Broad Group Builds 57-Storey Tower in Just 19 Days
When the world last heard of Hunan-based Broad Group, the construction firm was still struggling to win approval to turn a watermelon patch into a 220-storey vertical city.
Now the air conditioning maker turned-modular building group has bounced back… Read More>>
World’s Tallest Building Still a Changsha Watermelon Patch
While plans for a pair of one kilometre tall towers in Wuhan have been in the news recently, an 838 metre tall Chinese project announced last year and planned for completion by April 2014, appears to currently be serving as… Read More>>
Twin 1km Tall Wuhan Phoenix Towers are Latest Supertall Scheme
A matched pair of hyper-green, male and female, towers are set to stretch a full kilometre from the ground in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, if a local chemical company and some London architects succeed in a recent architectural… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Crane Operator Wins Photo Prize
A crane operator working on what will soon be China’s tallest building has won second prize in the Shanghai City photo contest, for his astonishing views of the city.
Wei Gensheng’s job swinging construction materials into place from atop the… Read More>>
Is Changsha’s Sky City Back in the Race to Be the World’s Tallest Building?
After announcements of ground-breaking and then of cancellation, it appears that the Sky City project in Changsha may be back online and back in the news.
A story today in the South China Morning Post reported that Broad Group, the… Read More>>
Could Changsha’s Sky City Spell Doom for China’s Economy? – and more of Today’s China Real Estate Links | August 8, 2013
Here is a list of the day’s latest China real estate news collected from around the web:
If the Skyscraper Index maintains its track record, then China should… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Tops Out – Is Now China’s Tallest
A topping-out ceremony was held on Saturday for what is, for now, China’s tallest building when the final beam was hoisted to the top of the Shanghai Tower.
At 632 metres and 121 stories, the project will be second only… Read More>>
Construction Halted on World’s Tallest Building Project in Changsha
Within one week from the ground breaking ceremony for Sky City, the 838-metre skyscraper project in Changsha, the building that would have been the tallest in the world has been put on hold.
A report in the Changsha-based Xiaoxiang Morning… Read More>>