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Chinese Property News

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A very flat market

Efforts to rein-in Beijing property work – too well
Jun 4, 2010 (WiC 63)

Only a few weeks ago, the main worry among Chinese policymakers was the risk of a property bubble. These days, the talk around the water-coolers is that the government’s latest measures to rein in soaring home prices might have been too ...

Real estate scam

Corrupt officials blamed for high property prices
May 14, 2010 (WiC 60)

China’s ebullient property market is generating plenty of tales of woe: a woman dousing herself in gasoline trying to stop developers from flattening her home; single men rejected by women because they can’t afford to buy; and university ...

Falling flat at 30

Mortgages outlast the buildings they pay for
Apr 16, 2010 (WiC 56)

"We found cracks in the living room walls the second year we moved in,” Guo Fan, a 30-year-old homeowner in Beijing, told the China Daily. “We call the real estate company every year to fix the problems… They told us that these are not big ...

Out of carrots, time for sticks

Government moves to rein in property speculation by state-owned firms
Mar 26, 2010 (WiC 54)

There is a Chinese idiom that goes: “The sky is high and the emperor is far away.” In the days when emperors ran China, the meaning of the phrase was self-evident to every ambitious bureaucrat: the further you are from the ruler, the greater ...

Worries of a property bubble in sunny Hainan
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

Think tropical idyll, and think of lazy days with little to do but read, nap and sip on a pina colada? Not if you are a property speculator recently arrived on the southern island of Hainan, which is often touted as China’s answer to ...

‘Use-it-or-lose-it’, property developers told
Jan 29, 2010 (WiC 47)

Each new month seems to be bringing a new record in Chinese property prices at the moment, even as the authorities continue to warn against overheating sentiment. This time it was news of a land price that was drawing the attention, as China ...

Time to panic about China’s overheating property market?
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

They start queueing early to buy their houses in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. Many of the 1,000-strong throng had been there for the entire day, newspapers reported. Some customers had even camped out overnight, to be sure of a ...

Flat unaffordable

Expert predicts surge in personal bankruptcies
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

Wang Ling, a 29 year-old white collar worker from Beijing’s Dongcheng district, and his wife bought a 60 square metre (642 square feet) apartment in March this year. The two now pay close to Rmb5,000 a month in housing loans. That means the ...

A Minnie boom begins

Disney announcement sees adjacent properties soar in value
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

Who’s been more over-excited this week: Shanghai’s seven-year olds or the city’s property developers? In Talking Point we mentioned that Shanghai has finally signed up to host the sixth Disneyland park. It will join existing parks in ...

Safe as houses?

Investors may have had enough of real estate IPOs
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

As the old saying goes: when it rains, it pours. After a hiatus, China’s capital-hungry property developers are now flooding the Hong Kong stockmarket with initial public offerings. Between September and October, five property firms have gone ...

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