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Chinese Property News

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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 ...

Developing mess?

Conflicting signals in commercial property
Oct 9, 2009 (WiC 34)

Too much money chasing too few deals. That seems to be one sentiment in the commercial property market – at least in Shanghai, that is. Last month, developer China Overseas paid a record Rmb7 billion ($1 billion) for a 142,000 square metre ...

Wharf struggles with archaeological finds
Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30)

When archaeologists dug up evidence of a 1,000-year-old street in the middle of Chengdu two years ago, the first number they called was not the nation’s preservation department, but Wharf Holdings, the Hong Kong-based property ...

No home, no wedding

First time buyers struggle to get on the property ladder
Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30)

The frustrations of the first-time buyer seem to extend across cultures – and housing markets. “I don’t understand! I am a well-educated professional with a well-paying job. I earn Rmb100,000 ($14,640) a year! So why can’t I live where ...

They’re buying again

Property developers set record prices in recent land auctions. Crisis over?
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

In an auction room in Beijing on June 30th, it was as if the financial crisis had never happened. The sale of residential site No. 15 Guangqu Road, which covers nearly 156,000 square metres in the heart of the capital’s Central Business ...

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