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Chinese Property News

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Beijing Put RIP?

A flurry of SOE defaults nettles bond investors
Apr 29, 2016 (WiC 322)

Daoist philosophers believe when nothing is done nothing is left undone. And if governments follow this libertarian principle, social and economic harmony will naturally follow. This small-government approach hasn’t won over many followers ...

Top landlord to lead departures by Hong Kong-listed firms?
Apr 15, 2016 (WiC 320)

Isn’t location, location, location the mantra for the best property investors? Try telling that to New World China, which went public in Hong Kong in 1999 having amassed the biggest land bank in mainland China. The cash-rich developer looked ...

Private housing enclaves may soon be a thing of the past in Chinese cities
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

In 1958, inspired by the designs of the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong decreed that Chinese rural folk should adopt a communal mode of living: production brigades were housed together in large compounds, where they shared food, furniture, space and ...

A tale of tier two cities

Chinese housing market suffers from best of times and worst of times
Mar 11, 2016 (WiC 316)

When British singing sensation Adele announced her worldwide concert tour late last year, fans were thrilled. The tour follows the release of her newest album 25, which has sold over 15 million copies around the world. But soon their excitement ...

Wanda expands to India after Madrid setback
Feb 5, 2016 (WiC 312)

Construction standards are just not what they used to be in Spain. When the Romans occupied the Iberian peninsula in the first century AD they built a 15-kilometre aqueduct in Segovia that was still in use 18 centuries later. Standing the test of ...

Betting the farm

Chinese cities seek to solve property glut via subsidised sales to villagers
Jan 15, 2016 (WiC 309)

When the State Council rolled out a policy stopping state firms from providing homes for their employees in 1998, analysts predicted a boom in sales of residential housing. At that time most of China’s real estate developers were cash-strapped ...

Takeover tussle

Wang looks for help as the fight to control Vanke turns hostile
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

The Chinese economy of 1984 offered far fewer opportunities to the private sector than it does today. For the entrepreneurs starting out back then, it was all about the basics. And in the case of Wang Shi’s early career, that meant peddling ...

No place like homes

More policy loosening on the cards for the property sector?
Nov 20, 2015 (WiC 304)

Singles’ Day started in the 1990s as a reaction to Valentine’s Day, when Chinese students started poking fun at their “bare stick” (i.e. singleton) status. But its commercial scale has outgrown even America’s Black Friday. Last week it ...

Gunning for growth

How a business mogul raised his initial investment – with a bank job
Nov 13, 2015 (WiC 303)

A story in the Bible tells of a rich man with three servants. Before going away on a long trip, he entrusts each of them with some money. Two use the cash to trade and work, and are able to return their master’s loan twice over when he returns. ...

Commercial landlords adjust to new challenges
Oct 30, 2015 (WiC 301)

He sat on Enron’s board at the time of the energy giant’s collapse, which might suggest that Ronnie Chan isn’t the first person you might think of to identify financial risks. However, an 8,000-word missive by the Hong Kong tycoon has ...

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