China Home Price Growth Slows and Cities Loosen Sales Rules
Home price growth in China declined to its slowest place in nearly a year during the first two months of 2019, according to official government statistics released on Friday, as purchase restrictions...
View ArticleChina Home Sales Slow, But Real Estate Investment Rebounds in 2019
Growth in sales of real estate in China fell to 2.8 percent during January and February 2019 compared to the same period a year ago, with the value of new property sales during the two months totalling...
View ArticleChina’s Top 100 Developers Grabbed 58% of the Real Estate Market in 2018
Growth in China’s real estate market slowed in 2018, due to tighter credit and stricter policies, but the changing environment may have been tougher on smaller developers than on the largest builders,...
View ArticleDevelopers Defy Commercial Home Sales Ban and More China Policy News
Editor’s note: This article provides a round up of recent regulatory moves in mainland China, along with insights into the impact that these new measures may be having on the market. Mingtiandi...
View ArticleNDRC Rules Out Hukou Restrictions in Small Cities and More China Policy News
Editor’s note: This article provides a round up of recent regulatory moves in mainland China, along with insights into the impact that these new measures may be having on the market. This new element...
View ArticleTahoe Exec Linked to Gangster Buyer of Hong Kong Tower Detained in Shenzhen
A senior executive of Fuzhou-based property developer Tahoe Group is said to have been detained since last week for reasons suspected to be linked to the earlier arrest of the chairman of...
View ArticleHohhot Offers Half-Price Homes and More China Real Estate Policy News
Municipal government officials across China continue to show a taste for migrant home buyers, as Mingtiandi’s round up of China regulatory news finds new incentives for educated out-of-towners to buy...
View ArticleGovt Cracks Down on Illegal Villas and More China Real Estate Policy News
The latest regulatory wave in China involves the central government’s hard line on illegal villa developments, as Mingtiandi’s round-up of China regulatory news finds Evergrande, Country Garden and...
View ArticleChina Drives Record $45B in APAC Commercial Real Estate Investment
Commercial real estate investment in Asia Pacific reached $45 billion during the first three months of the year, setting a new first quarter high, according to a new report released by property...
View ArticleHK Housing Sales Jumped 50% in May, But Analysts Warn of Coming 10% Price Slide
Despite growing uncertainty over the US-China trade war and protests of a proposed extradition law, the value of homes sold in Hong Kong reached HK$78.4 billion in May, up 11.9 percent compared with...
View ArticleCountry Garden Sales Drop 6% – Still Lead China’s Top 10 Builders
Country Garden has retained its crown as China’s top developer, measured by contracted sales, despite being one of only two of the nation’s top ten builders to see their performance drop during the...
View ArticleChina Home Price Growth Slows as Cities Re-Tighten Regulatory Grip
Growth in China’s housing prices slowed in June with fewer cities reporting increases in home as local governments tightened property curbs to prevent the housing market from overheating. Among 70...
View ArticleOver 70% of Hong Kongers Say Now is a Bad Time to Buy a Home: Citi Survey
Citi Group’s latest survey on home ownership in Hong Kong shows that over 70 percent of residents feel that it is a bad or terrible time to purchase a home in the world’s least affordable metropolis....
View ArticleAPAC Real Estate Investment Reaches Record $86B in First Half of 2019
Real estate transaction volumes in Asia Pacific hit a historic high of $86 billion in the first half of 2019, an increase of six percent year on year, despite property investment dropping by nineteen...
View ArticleChina Banking Regulator Launches Crackdown on Property Lending in 32 Cities
Sales for China’s top 100 developers fell 29 percent for the first seven months of 2019, as the government has continued a year-long clampdown on the housing market, and that trend could be set to...
View ArticleHong Kong Commercial Real Estate Transactions Fell 42% in 2019 Q2
As discontent over the government’s extradition bill roiled the Hong Kong economy, and with mainland authorities keeping a tight clamp on cash, commercial real estate transaction volume fell over 42...
View ArticleAPAC Data Centre Market Predicted to Grow to $28B by 2024
The Asia Pacific data centre market is expected to overtake North America to become the largest in the world by 2021, according to property services consultancy Cushman and Wakefield. Underpinned by a...
View ArticleOffice Vacancy in Hong Kong’s Central District Rises to 3-Year High
Vacancy in Hong Kong’s normally red-hot Central office market, which boasts the most expensive commercial property in the world, rose to a three-year high in July amid increasing economic uncertainty,...
View ArticleChina’s PBOC Sets Minimum Mortgage Rates in Latest Bid to Control Housing Prices
The People’s Bank of China has unveiled a new minimum interest rate system for home loans according to an announcement on the central bank’s official WeChat social media account, as the mainland...
View ArticleHong Kong Retail Real Estate Transactions Fall 47% in August
The uncertainties of the US-China trade war negotiations and the political turmoil in Hong Kong have combined to cool down investor interest in Hong Kong’s property market, with sales of retail real...
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