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 says fall in home prices spreading

2011-11-18T04:30:27Z

The number of major Chinese cities posting a drop in home prices doubled in October, the government said Friday, in a sign efforts to cool the country's surging property market are working.

The price of new homes in 34 out of 70 Chinese cities tracked by the government dropped in October from September, doubling from the 17 cities which had falls in September, the National ...

S&P sees liquidity strain for China developers

2011-09-27T01:30:07Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's property developers are facing increasing liquidity pressure over the next six to 12 months and tightening credit conditions may see some cut prices, Standard and Poor's said on Tuesday.

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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.

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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...

How Big Is the Chinese Property Bubble?

2010-11-29T14:50:11Z

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Have you bought a house ?

2010-11-03T03:22:24Z

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China's real estate market occurs vicious policy awkward

2010-10-12T19:40:09Z

In this round of real estate regulation policy, the No. 4 bearing the brunt of that "increasing supportability housing and efficient supply of common goods housing" is the first priority, and stressed that "to the appropriate increase affordable housing-building efforts, expanding affordable housing supply range. Commodity prices are too high, rising too quickly, it is necessary to increase the limit item housing, affordable housing

Materials As Early As 9:00: Shanghai Property Market, Property Tax And Regulation?

2010-10-27T14:36:11Z

Users and friends, Hello everybody, Welcome to the HC Building Materials Net to bring you the materials as early as 9:00. Today you will learn: Questions: whether the Shanghai property market regulation and control of property tax ; Accelerate green building standards for improved third-party evaluation system ; Focus: Big cool down the property market cool reminder Steel Home industries ; Flooring company "Expo marketing" to promote the brand new machine grab ; Real Estate New Deal "to keep...

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...

Stairs Market In 2010 After The Winter, "metal Mesh"

2010-09-22T22:07:41Z

Development and changes of the stairs is also very fast in fact, in 2009, Shanghai staircase industry theme is "winter" and "practice." How cold the winter, I believe that each firm's own sentiment, coming in 2010, we also need to understand the market situation next year, and product development trends, remedy.

Slow recovery Experts predict: GDP growth will slow. 4 trillion bail-out gradually in place, matching funds will ease the situation of deflation, this will stop the rapid de...

"costly" Crushed Rent Shanghai Yongle "flag Shop"

2010-09-22T10:50:52Z

Reluctant to take up to 38 million yuan next year, the "astronomical" rent, Shanghai Yongle Home Appliances in the first major store' In the Pudong New Shanghai Commercial City, the New World stores in the officially closed, ending six years of operating history.

"Rent increase is the main factor related shops." Wing-lok, said Marketing Manager Huang Jianping, in the past six years, the rent from the earliest New World store 6 million yuan / year in rent, rose to 26 million yuan thi...

Yanlord Sells $104 Mln of Apartments in Two Days in Nanjing

2010-11-02T12:26:53Z

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business center "the entire sales boom" surging housing enterprises, "retail wholesale switch to" save money chain business centre

2010-10-06T05:38:43Z

Business Center"whole sale" wave surging housing enterprises, "retail wholesale switch to" save money chain

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The entire sales surging property market seems to have inadvertently formed out of its back surface is passive and the entire sale developers to ease the negative imp...

Finding The Perfect Apartment In Hague

2010-09-10T13:37:02Z

Find out what areas are in need of housing. Areas that need housing are ones that have a lot of businesses in that city or town. Suburban multifamily units generally are oriented to one of two distinct lifestyles: family or adult only. Privately owned family-oriented rental housing is becoming increasingly scarce. It has one of the world's busiest and largest ports.

The port of Rotterdam is second largest port just behind Shanghai. Having saved for a deposit, either individually o...

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'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...

Price Matters

2010-11-02T15:23:56Z

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Rescuing the Housing Market

2010-11-02T15:24:35Z

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China: Manufacturing Expansion Slows, Property Sales Plunge

2010-10-27T08:54:04Z

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China's Market Is a Poor Man’s Casino - Andy Xie

2010-10-27T06:39:31Z

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Bubble in the Boonies, China Edition

2010-10-27T06:33:07Z

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Two jailed for life over Shanghai building failure

2010-06-16T11:14:31Z

Two bosses of a property development company that built a 13-storey building which fell over in Shanghai last year have been jailed for life on graft charges, state media reported on Wednesday.

A construction worker was killed when the building toppled in June, highlighting concerns over quality standards, soaring real estate prices and corruption as Shanghai prepared for next month's World Expo.

The two men, 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...

Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers

2010-06-16T11:09:01Z

Soaring China property prices raise worries over bubble, leave many unable to buy own homes

The luxury apartment buildings Yang Xuhua passes on her way to work are a daily reminder of her own frustrated efforts to buy a home. Prices for even modest apartments in Shanghai have soared, putting home purchases out of reach for white collar workers and professionals.

Yang an...

China's Housing Bubble Spells Trouble

2010-10-25T09:52:24Z

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Investing In Chinese Real Estate

2010-10-25T07:56:33Z

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Chinese Home Sales Plunge: What a Difference a Year Makes

2010-10-22T13:17:02Z

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Forte in talks to buy Shanghai property from Goldman

2010-06-16T11:26:27Z

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese property developer Shanghai Forte Land Co Ltd &lt;2337.HK&gt; is in talks to buy a high-end residential property in Shanghai from Goldman Sachs &lt;GS.N&...

Young Chinese groan at skyrocketing property costs

2010-06-15T09:13:00Z

Computer engineer Jenny Jin and her husband have been hunting for a home for a year, but like many young would-be property owners in China, they have struggled to enter the market due to soaring prices.

Now, with a baby due in February, the Shanghai couple -- who already spend a fifth of their combined monthly income of 13,000 yuan (1,900 dolla...

China Housing Market: It's 2005 All Over Again

2010-10-22T12:51:51Z

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Hong Kong must bolster China links and diversify: Tsang

2010-06-15T09:23:54Z

Hong Kong's survival as a major financial hub lies in capitalising on its links with the booming Chinese mainland and diversifying its own economy, the city's chief executive said Wednesday.

In particular, the city can play a key role in Beijing's plans to promote the yuan as an international currency, 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...

World's Best Places To Invest In Real Estate

2010-10-21T09:36:51Z

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Is it Better to Remain a Renter or Buy a House?

2010-10-19T17:10:01Z

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China B-shares end morning lower, tracking A-share falls - UPDATE

2010-10-19T10:20:28Z

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China's Nanjing Suning Real Estate buys Shanghai land for 4.4 bln yuan

2010-10-15T09:55:22Z

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Bubble Trouble In Shanghai?

2010-10-13T09:14:41Z

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Global Building Boom

2010-12-19T21:31:28Z

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, a container truck drives past stacks of shipping containers at Waigaoqiao Container Port in Shanghai, China. The world's most expensive infrastructure project, a $150 billion plan to bring water from the mighty Yangtze river to the parched north, calls for sending 45 trillion liters (12 trillion gallons) of wa...

China Markets

2010-12-13T19:00:22Z

An investor walks past the stock price monitor at a private securities company Monday Dec. 13, 2010 in Shanghai, China. World markets rose Monday after Chinese authorities refrained from raising interest rates over the weekend and said they favored a strong growth policy despite high inflation. The Shanghai Composite Index gaine...

China High Speed Rail

2010-12-03T11:30:35Z

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a China Railway High-Speed (CRH) train enters Bengbu south railway station, a stop in Anhui province on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed ra...

Hong Kong Long Lunch Ends

2010-11-25T02:32:41Z

A floor trader prints the trading records in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. The stockbrokers' long lunch is coming to an end. The Hong Kong stock exchange, which has one of the shortest trading days in the world, plans to cut its two-hour lunch break by an hour over the next two years. It also plans to start trading half an hour earlier in a bid...

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