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Chinese Property News

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Fast, but fatal?

Country Garden curbed after construction deaths
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

Yang Guoqiang views his time as so valuable that he is said to spend no more than 10 minutes a day eating, shunning dinner banquets because they take too long. The same focus on time is reflected in the business model of his company, Country ...

Shanghai banks are first to get access to a nationwide property registry
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

It is not a coincidence that the widespread closures of peer-to-peer lending platforms in China, totalling 721 in the first half, were concentrated in cities that are also plagued by bubbly house prices. In Hangzhou, for instance, two sports ...

New lease of life

Vanke in 10-year apartment rental offer
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? That may seem like an ambitious question for younger people but in China it is a query that prospective renters might have to consider when they look for a place to live. In April one of China’s largest ...

Crossing the Yalu

Will Dandong become a northeastern Shenzhen?
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

Six weeks ago an armoured train carrying the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rattled across an old iron bridge over the Yalu river and passed through the Chinese border city of Dandong on its way to Beijing. This week, Kim again travelled to ...

Part and parcel

Can Reits spur government goal of a bigger rental property market?
May 4, 2018 (WiC 407)

Throughout its modern history, China has been famed for its mass campaigns, most notably persuading its population to eradicate rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows during the so-called Four Pests Campaign between 1958 and 1962. But the ...

Will fairways be turned into flats in Hong Kong?
Apr 20, 2018 (WiC 405)

Most Hong Kongers live in tiny flats and the city has become so cramped that even the dead are struggling to be accommodated. That’s why in 2015 the city proposed building a new ‘super cemetery’ that would offer a one-stop shop for all ...

Evergrande to invest Rmb100 billion in tech space
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

Starbucks irked some of its customers in 2011 when it expunged its name and the word “coffee” from its logo. The rebranding was aimed at giving the coffee retailer more flexibility to push into new business areas such as groceries. Some of ...

Superman retires

Muted mainland reaction as tycoon Li steps down
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

Hong Kong’s much heralded free market economy loses some of its sparkle when you study the acute concentration of economic power in the hands of a few of its family-run property conglomerates. That said, there have been signs that the ...

Goldin opportunity

Tianjin’s tallest building has become a money pit for Pan Sutong
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

Some people call him crazy. Others say he is simply removed from reality. For Pan Sutong, the jury is still out on whether there is a method to the madness. As the head of Goldin Group, the Chinese billionaire controls a conglomerate that ...

House in disorder

Hong Kong politicians hit by home truths
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

In the US or the UK political careers are routinely ended because of sexual transgressions. In Hong Kong, a city where most of the population is obsessed with property ownership, it’s only fitting that the territory’s politicians often get ...

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