News on Beijing

China November housing inflation eases as tightening bites

2011-12-17T20:00:08Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's November housing inflation eased to its lowest level in the year, a victory for Beijing's campaign to ward off property bubbles as it steadily loosens monetary policy to ensure a soft landing in the world's second-largest economy.

Average new home prices rose 2.2 percent in Nov...

China Nov house inflation 2.2 percent: Reuters calculations

2011-12-17T18:30:12Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Average house price inflation in China's 70 major cities eased to 2.2 percent in November from October's 2.8 percent, according to Reuters calculations using official data published Sunday.

It marks the lowest reading so far this year since Reuters started calculating weighted annual home price ris...

China's Ordos property bust offers warning sign

2011-12-02T06:00:10Z

ORDOS, China (Reuters) - The monumental, neo-Mongolian sculptures, empty plazas and hulking concrete shells of buildings in Ordos district, deep in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, are a potent symbol of how China's property boom can turn to bust.

Off the back of a thriving coal industry, the local govern...

China property market dip may have global impact

2011-11-14T19:31:01Z

China's property market, a mainstay of the world's second-largest economy, has started to suffer a downturn that could have a knock-on effect on global trade in commodities, analysts warn.

Housebuying demand has fallen across China after authorities, fearing a property bubble, banned second home purchases in places including Beijing, increased minimum down payments and trialled prop...

Hundreds of real estate outlets close in Beijing: Xinhua

2011-11-08T17:30:37Z

Real estate agents in Beijing have been forced to close hundreds of branches this year as government restrictions on property purchases squeeze demand for apartments and houses, state media said Tuesday.

Nearly 1,000 outlets have been shuttered since the start of the year, including 177 in October alone, as property sales in the Chinese capital slump, Xinhua news agen...

Chinese cities fret as land sales fall

2011-11-04T12:00:28Z

CHANGSHA, China (Reuters) - Just last year, the government's land auction center in this sprawling city buzzed with activity, with investors fighting to buy plots in the town center and pushing prices to record highs.

Now, the center is eerily quiet, as moves by the national government to r...

Analysis: Greentown woes reveal risks in China property boom

2011-09-26T22:30:05Z

HANGZHOU/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China is moving to choke off funding avenues to developers across the country, tightening or eliminating credit options in a bid to slow the rampant property market and bring down prices without sending the broader economy into a crash.

The latest salvo in Beijing restricts lending and limits their access to much-needed credit.

The warning, the second by a ratings agency in two months, comes as recent data indicate that the government's efforts to put a cap on the soaring property market seem to be having an impact.

"Meaningful price adjustments" in the world's...

China orders honesty in property market

2011-03-22T13:30:45Z

China's economic planner told developers and real estate agents Tuesday not to use underhanded means to sell property, as Beijing continues efforts to cool the country's real estate market.

Anyone trying to sell a property "must not use false or nonstandard price labels to mislead property buyers", the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in new rules that take effect on May 1....

China February home prices show signs of softening

2011-03-18T14:30:46Z

China's efforts to cool its red-hot real estate market showed signs of working in February, as government data Friday showed more cities seeing a fall in house prices from the previous month.

The figures could mean Beijing will hold off any further measures to rein in prices in the near term, analysts said, after a series of measures over recent months.

The cost of a newly bui...

Chinese pin hopes on affordable housing pledge

2011-03-07T00:30:08Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Owning a home is central to the Chinese dream, but for Beijing residents like 30-year-old Zhang Xinyuan, just getting an apartment seems like a dream that may never become reality.

A teacher at a prominent university in Beijing, Zhang is a member of the country's growing middle class. But her salary of 80,000 yuan...

China scraps national property price index

2011-02-17T14:30:42Z

China has said it will stop publishing its much-watched national property price index -- a lightning rod for public anger over soaring housing costs -- and replace it with two new property indexes.

The National Bureau of Statistics said it was compiling two new indexes to gauge new and second-hand home sales starting with...

China plans nationwide resource tax: report

2011-01-25T20:30:22Z

China will roll out a resources tax across the country over the next five years as Beijing tries to boost local government income and reduce reliance on land sales, state media said Wednesday.

The central government will also overhaul taxes levied on high-income earners and push forward reforms of real estate taxes, the BEIJING (Reuters) - China raised mortgage rates by 25 basis points on Sunday, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said, the second increase this year, after benchmark interest rates increased on Saturday.

After Sunday's move, the rate for mortgage loans longer than 5 years will be 4.30 per...

How Big Is the Chinese Property Bubble?

2010-11-29T14:50:11Z

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Sex And The City Housing Market

2010-11-29T14:40:44Z

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China housing prices resume rise in September

2010-10-15T09:31:15Z

Property prices in major Chinese cities rose in September from the previous month, the first month-on-month increase since May as Beijing struggles to curb rocketing real estate prices.

Housing prices in 70 major cities were up 0.5 percent in September from the previous month and rose 9.1 percent from the same month a year earlier, the

Housing Industry Alarming How The Lighting Industry, "winter"

2010-10-07T07:37:56Z

Recently, according to authoritative media, investigative reporting, in just the past 5 months time, the country's first line cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing and other cities from the sales of commercial property " cow "and" Bear ", in decline. This is 5 months compared with last year, commercial housing sales decreased by 50% or more, the worst thing is Wuhan, sales dropped 6 percent. , And the bull market so far...

Beijing To Punish Anti

2010-09-22T17:27:23Z

For Beijing in the "protected disk reluctant sellers" in a few days ago, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban and Rural Construction interviewed in connection protected disk of 15 real estate developers, and that, once confirmed will quickly punish, and immediately exposed.

This caused great repercussions in the industry. Yesterday, some developers to accept the "Daily Economic News" reporters, said opening and partial extension of the normal heav...

China prepares further property tightening

2010-09-08T23:15:39Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Chinese cities are preparing fresh property tightening steps as housing transactions and prices show signs of a rebound, reinforcing market expectations that Beijing will not ease its grip on the sector any time soon.

The prosperous eastern province of Zhejiang intends to order developers to park pre-sale pro...

Zhang Baoquan: Can It Stand Out From The Sea Of Desire?

2010-09-10T07:43:24Z

Writer, calligrapher, real estate businessmen, Beijing Jindianjituan chairman, EVD players standard-bearer, the Chinese five-star luxury theater promoters, residential real estate Beijing Industry and Commerce Chamber of Commerce, etc., this Digg this stunning first Street, have fallen on a person named Zhang Baoquan head.

However, as a writer, not how its best-selling book out; as a calligrapher in the calligraphy circle of fame did not seem to ring; as the real estate business, it...

No China policy change despite slower growth: gov't advisor

2010-08-29T00:15:44Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will continue to curb property speculation regardless of recent changes in housing prices, a senior government advisor said in remarks published in Sunday.

Xia Bin, an academic advisor to the central bank, told a weekend forum in Shanghai that Beijing would ...

China widens stress tests to steel and cement: media

2010-08-06T03:00:11Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have called for stress tests on loans to a range of industries, including cement and steel, whose fortunes are closely tied to property markets on the brink of a correction, official media reported on Friday.

The tests, part of a broader investigation into banks' ability to withstand falls in housing prices, point to the government's...

China tries to reassure markets about stress tests

2010-08-05T22:45:07Z

China tries to reassure markets after bank stress tests, says no indication of policy change

Regulators tried to reassure financial markets about "stress tests" ordered on Chinese banks' real estate lending, saying Friday they do not represent official views of where the market is headed or any impending policy change.

Stock prices of Chinese banks and real estate companies fell this week following reports lenders te...

The China Property Bubble

2010-11-02T12:10:40Z

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Huang Guangyu brothers together to "perform" A wealth of legendary stock

2010-09-08T16:18:07Z

"Sneezes time, he had accounted for 50,000 yuan." Huang Junqin an understanding of people commented. As a former president of China's richest man, Huang Guangyu of GOME Group, the brother, the founder Huang Junqin New Henderson Group is an extraordinary speed than his brother.

All this thanks to the new Henderson Group * ST Kim Tae-core assets into a "real estate asset securitization program."

Net worth by 4 billion yuan a day

Within the Shanghai S...

Beijing home prices rise to '22 times income levels'

2010-07-18T23:15:44Z

A typical Beijing flat costs about 22 times average incomes in the city, state media said Monday, highlighting the challenge China faces providing affordable housing amid a property boom.

A 90-square-metre (968-square-foot) apartment in Beijing cost 1.6 million yuan (236,000 dollars) last year, the China Da...

Monroe and Che Guevara?? Perfect match prints lead to infringement dispute

2010-09-08T19:15:21Z

Monroe and Che Guevara?? Perfect match prints lead to infringement dispute
Monroe and Che Guevara?? Perfect match prints lead to infringement dispute
Network HC silk screen printing special Core tips : Late last year, many people in the streets of Chengdu bus station have seen a striking real estate advertising, the two major subject is the late world famous celebrity picture: cut? Guevara and Marilyn Monroe in the middle printed promotional language "has become mainstream before, ar...

REAL ESTATE INFORMATION

2010-11-02T15:38:18Z

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Government paper gives China tips on buying U.S. property

2010-07-15T19:45:05Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hunting for a property bargain? Worried that prices in China are too high? Have you thought about the United States instead? Let me help.

It sounds like a real estate agent's pitch. But Chinese real estate investors curious about America needed to look n...

China's property prices slow in June

2010-07-11T22:15:27Z

Property prices in China rose at a slower pace in June from a month ago, government data showed Monday, in a further sign that Beijing's efforts to cool the sizzling real estate market were kicking in.

Housing prices in 70 major cities rose 11.4 percent year-on-year in June, the National Burea...

How Chinese Real Estate Resembles Amazon Stock

2010-11-02T12:07:18Z

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Price Matters

2010-11-02T15:23:56Z

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Evading the Tax Man

2010-11-02T15:21:57Z

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Thoughts on China Real Estate, Banks and Rising Wages

2010-10-27T08:56:36Z

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China: Manufacturing Expansion Slows, Property Sales Plunge

2010-10-27T08:54:04Z

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China's property moves leave buyers in limbo

2010-06-16T11:17:40Z

Accountant Jiao Yurong carefully organised her family's finances to put her son through university in the United States. Now that he has the coveted degree, she has been saving to buy him a flat.

But soaring property prices in China -- and a series of moves by the government to rein them in -- are throwing a spanner in the 50-year-old mother's plans, and she admits she does not know ...

Foreign Policy Magazine: China's Bubble Trouble

2010-10-27T06:37:55Z

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China Real Estate: Boom Not Limited to Just Beijing, Shanghai Magnet Markets

2010-10-27T06:36:01Z

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China's new controls on property developers: report

2010-06-16T11:16:35Z

China is drawing up a new curb on property developers as part of a host of measures to cool the country's red-hot property market, the state-controlled China Securities Journal reported Thursday.

The plan would ban developers from investing revenue from pre-sales of uncompleted property developments in new projects, the journal said, citing an unnamed source clo...

Bubble in the Boonies, China Edition

2010-10-27T06:33:07Z

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Beijing limits home-buyers to one new apartment

2010-06-16T11:16:01Z

The Chinese capital Beijing has issued rules limiting families to one new apartment purchase as authorities try to rein in rampant property speculation and soaring prices, state media said Friday.

"For the time being, one family can buy only one new home in the city," China News Service said, citing the municipal government.

Beijing authorities also ordered banks ...

China Curtain Cloth Market severe

2010-09-09T13:11:41Z

Since the second half of 2008, the financial crisis sweeping the globe, Beijing, curtain cloth market difficulties. Enterprises in the face of difficulties did not despair, look for opportunities in a crisis is the plight of a cutting edge.

Shortly after the Spring Festival in Beijing, Jing-ming, visited a number of curtain fabric Square shops, fabric stores in the chi Mita, the small boss told reporters: "curtain of sales with the sale of real estate indirectly related to the...

The Yin And Yang Of China's Housing Bubble

2010-10-25T14:28:37Z

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Chinese real estate: Four ways investors can profit

2010-06-16T11:13:37Z

ETFs that should benefit from the biggest urban migration in history

SHANGHAI, The People's Republic of China - Given what you may have heard about Chinese property values in recent months, it may surprise you to learn that Chinese real estate investors are extremely value oriented. And so are the institutional investors I've run into during my latest investment-research...

Chinese Construction and U.S. McMansions: When Things Fall Apart

2010-10-25T14:26:01Z

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China's property prices rise in February

2010-06-16T11:09:07Z

China's real estate prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in February, official data showed Wednesday, as Beijing pledged to step up efforts to cool the red-hot property market.

Prices in 70 major cities in China increased by 10.7 percent year-on-year in February, the National Bu...

China sees long-term growth in housing prices

2010-06-16T11:08:47Z

Soaring Chinese housing prices will rise further in 2010 and beyond as the nation develops and as local officials push property sales as a revenue source, the country's housing minister said Monday.

The bullish assessment by Minister Jiang Weixin appeared to cast doubt on government pledges to curb runaway prices that have fuelled fears of a real estate bubble and concerns that they were rising out of reach of many Chinese.

China to rein in soaring property prices: Wen

2010-06-16T11:02:15Z

China on Friday pledged to rein in soaring real estate prices, curb speculative investment and expand low-cost housing amid fears of a damaging property bubble in the fast-growing economy.

In an address to the annual session of parliament, Premier Wen Jiabao said Beijing would crack down on illegal practices aimed at driving up prices to ensure...

China police detain 18 for assaulting artists

2010-06-15T09:25:29Z

Chinese police have detained 18 people on suspicion of assaulting several artists in a Beijing art zone that is slated for demolition, state media said Thursday.

The artists called police after the suspects allegedly broke into three workshops in east Beijing in the early hours of Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Police would not immediately comment o...

China tightens bank lending rules

2010-06-15T09:06:41Z

China tightens rules to strengthen control over bank lending

Banking regulators in China have ordered institutions to tighten controls on risk and carefully scrutinize borrowers' ability to pay their debts in a new step to rein in lending.

The government's order comes as Beijing tries to prevent excessive lending that it says could lead to financial problems while ensurin...

Investing In Chinese Real Estate

2010-10-25T07:56:33Z

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Bloomberg: More Evidence of a Chinese Real Estate Bubble

2010-10-25T04:19:47Z

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4 Reference Points on China Real Estate

2010-10-22T13:16:06Z

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Beijing's Bubblicious Prices: 27:1 Apartment to Average Income Value

2010-10-22T13:10:47Z

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China's 'This Time Is Different' Syndrome

2010-10-22T13:11:24Z

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China: It Doesn't Take a Genius to Figure Out How This Will End

2010-10-22T13:09:33Z

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China keeps focus on property; markets fear tighter money

2010-06-16T11:26:17Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China renewed its vow to curb runaway property prices and keep a watch on excessive lending, while investors rushed to cut exposure to risk on Wednesday, a day after the central bank tightened bank reserve requirements.

Concerns a bubble was forming in China's hot property market was one of the reasons why poli...

China's Real Estate Rebalance Should Buoy Gold

2010-10-22T13:08:35Z

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Chinese rules on home confiscations under attack

2010-06-15T09:12:20Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's rules on the forced demolition of homes are under attack after a Beijing man set fire to himself to protest against confiscation of his family's home, while legal experts urged reforms to better protect residents.

With China's feverish real estate market stoking developers' appetite for land, the guidel...

China urban property prices strong in October

2010-06-15T09:18:42Z

Property prices in major Chinese cities picked up in October, government data showed Tuesday, as people scrambled to buy amid fears that tax breaks and other favourable policies may soon be withdrawn.

Prices of real estate in 70 medium and large cities in China rose 3.9 percent last month from a year earlier and 0.7 percent from September, the Beijing's oldest hutong, or alleyway, districts, and is only steps away from Nanluoguxiang, a street lined with trendy restaurants, bars and boutiques that is one of the capital's latest hotspots.

"I sur...

OFT lures associate from Slaughters

2010-10-22T11:23:23Z

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Pinsents brings in Ashurst funds expert

2010-10-22T11:01:41Z

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China property sales soar, triggering bubble fears

2010-06-15T09:32:55Z

Property sales in China have soared by over 60 percent so far this year, the government said Monday, triggering fears of emerging asset bubbles.

In the first seven months of the year, sales of all property were up 60.4 percent from the same period a year ago, while housing sales increased by 65.3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics...

New bubbles rising in China property market: state media

2010-06-15T09:38:26Z

China's recent moves to ease curbs on the real estate sector have sent prices soaring recently, stoking fears that new property bubbles are forming, state media reported Friday.

Residential property prices in Beijing's Central Business District rose 6.5 percent in the past week and demand for second-hand houses in some other areas is four times the supply, said the The Chinese are coming: Falling US home prices lure investors on home-buying tours

Beijing lawyer Ying Guohua is heading to the United States on a shopping trip, looking not for designer clothes or jewelry, but for a $1 million home in New York City or...

China Seeks To Revive Property Market

2010-10-21T09:47:59Z

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China property rescue package gets muted reception

2010-09-22T13:52:34Z

China tinkers with taxes, property policies in bid to stave off hard landing

China's latest effort to stave off a crash landing for the economy and revive its weakening housing market failed to stir much enthusiasm Thursday among investors spooked by a raft of bad news at home and abroad.

Moving ahead on pledges of new measures to help counter the slowdown, authorities announced late Wednesday a reduction in required...

A HOUSING SINKHOLE STARTS TO SPREAD

2010-06-15T09:49:43Z

A HOUSING SINKHOLE STARTS TO SPREAD

Autumn is usually the busiest time for real estate salesman Wang Yaodong. Last September and October, for instance, he sold more than a dozen luxury townhouses in western Shanghai, but this year he has sold only one. "Everybody is waiting for prices to fall," Wang says.

Wang's lament is a common refrain in China these days. During t...

Olympian Bust?

2010-10-21T09:39:08Z

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Beijing property market 'basically stable,' supply rising - report

2010-10-21T09:37:57Z

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Residential Real Estate Market In China

2010-09-22T01:43:10Z

China has been a densely-populated country from ancient times. Always it depended for survival on labor-intensive rice cultivation. Cooperation was crucial for China's existence, especially for the making and maintenance of a very complicated system of dikes and irrigation canals.

Chinese people travel less owing to many political and geographic reasons. They remain tied to their village - a system of living repeated for numerous generations. The sequence of planting and harvesti...

Soho sees Beijing as best place for 'safe, stable' property returns - report

2010-10-15T09:56:40Z

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China: Foreign investment up 12.8 pct.

2010-09-09T20:41:56Z

China Says Foreign Investment Up 12.8 Percent in January-August

Foreign investment in China rose 12.8 percent to $42 billion in the first eight months of this year, the Commerce Ministry said Thursday, despite new limits on investment in real estate and acquisitions of Chinese companies.

Investment growth from January to August was down slightly from the 12.9 percent increase reported through July.

Foreign inve...

Credit Suisse sets up JV to enter real estate market in China - report

2010-10-12T00:30:07Z

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China Coupon Generation

2011-01-02T16:31:05Z

In this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, Ding Can, 32, holds up VIP discount cards and coupons she carries in her purse in Beijing, China. More than a craze, discount shopping is becoming a way of life for young Chinese. Known as the "coupon generation," they are changing the way business is done in the world's second largest economy. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

China New Year

2010-12-31T21:01:16Z

Chinese people strike the Yongle Bell at a temple to celebrate the New Year, in Beijing, China, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Chinese people believe striking the bell at the beginning of the New Year will bring them best wishes. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Global Christmas

2010-12-24T15:01:15Z

A girl gestures to ask a boy to keep silent during a Christmas Eve Mass at the official Catholic church South Cathedral in Beijing, China, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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China Koreas Clash

2010-12-23T10:31:44Z

U.S. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson gives comments on his North Korean trip after his arrival from Pyongyang at the Capital Airport in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. China's capital announced Thursday that it will sharply limit new vehicle registrations to try to ease massive traffic jams that are rapidly turning Beijing's streets into parking lots. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

News on Beijing

China November housing inflation eases as tightening bites

China Nov house inflation 2.2 percent: Reuters calculations

China's Ordos property bust offers warning sign

China property market dip may have global impact

Hundreds of real estate outlets close in Beijing: Xinhua

Chinese cities fret as land sales fall

Analysis: Greentown woes reveal risks in China property boom

China orders honesty in property market

China February home prices show signs of softening

Chinese pin hopes on affordable housing pledge

China scraps national property price index

China plans nationwide resource tax: report

How Big Is the Chinese Property Bubble?

Sex And The City Housing Market

China housing prices resume rise in September

Housing Industry Alarming How The Lighting Industry, "winter"

Beijing To Punish Anti

China prepares further property tightening

Zhang Baoquan: Can It Stand Out From The Sea Of Desire?

No China policy change despite slower growth: gov't advisor

China widens stress tests to steel and cement: media

China tries to reassure markets about stress tests

The China Property Bubble

Huang Guangyu brothers together to &quot;perform&quot; A wealth of legendary stock

Beijing home prices rise to '22 times income levels'

Monroe and Che Guevara?? Perfect match prints lead to infringement dispute

REAL ESTATE INFORMATION

Government paper gives China tips on buying U.S. property

China's property prices slow in June

How Chinese Real Estate Resembles Amazon Stock

Price Matters

Evading the Tax Man

Thoughts on China Real Estate, Banks and Rising Wages

China: Manufacturing Expansion Slows, Property Sales Plunge

China's property moves leave buyers in limbo

Foreign Policy Magazine: China's Bubble Trouble

China Real Estate: Boom Not Limited to Just Beijing, Shanghai Magnet Markets

China's new controls on property developers: report

Bubble in the Boonies, China Edition

Beijing limits home-buyers to one new apartment

China Curtain Cloth Market severe

The Yin And Yang Of China's Housing Bubble

Chinese real estate: Four ways investors can profit

Chinese Construction and U.S. McMansions: When Things Fall Apart

China's property prices rise in February

China sees long-term growth in housing prices

China to rein in soaring property prices: Wen

China police detain 18 for assaulting artists

China tightens bank lending rules

Investing In Chinese Real Estate

Bloomberg: More Evidence of a Chinese Real Estate Bubble

4 Reference Points on China Real Estate

Beijing's Bubblicious Prices: 27:1 Apartment to Average Income Value

China's 'This Time Is Different' Syndrome

China: It Doesn't Take a Genius to Figure Out How This Will End

China keeps focus on property; markets fear tighter money

China's Real Estate Rebalance Should Buoy Gold

Chinese rules on home confiscations under attack

China urban property prices strong in October

OFT lures associate from Slaughters

Pinsents brings in Ashurst funds expert

China property sales soar, triggering bubble fears

New bubbles rising in China property market: state media

China Seeks To Revive Property Market

China property rescue package gets muted reception

A HOUSING SINKHOLE STARTS TO SPREAD

A HOUSING SINKHOLE STARTS TO SPREAD

Olympian Bust?

Beijing property market 'basically stable,' supply rising - report

Residential Real Estate Market In China

Soho sees Beijing as best place for 'safe, stable' property returns - report

China: Foreign investment up 12.8 pct.

Credit Suisse sets up JV to enter real estate market in China - report

China Coupon Generation

China New Year

Global Christmas

China Koreas Clash

Huang Guangyu brothers together to "perform" A wealth of legendary stock