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11.21.17China to Fend off Bubble Risk with Tighter Property Rules
CNBC
The authorities said they would stop funds being illegally funneled into property and that capital flow would be more forcibly balanced between real estate and other industries.
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10.02.17China Steps up Battle Against Runaway Property Prices
Financial Times
Chinese banking regulators have told lenders to crack down on the use of consumer loans to finance home purchases, the latest effort to cool down the overheated property market and rein in financial risk.
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04.03.17Xiongan District Becomes Hot Property in China
BBC
A sleepy district in Hebei province has suddenly become the center of China’s latest property craze and the talk of the country.
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03.21.17China Steps up Battle against Property Bubble
Financial Times
Big cities escalate efforts to curb the soaring prices that are stoking anger
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03.14.17China Property Sales Surge Despite Efforts to Cool Market
Voice of America
Property sales by area rose 25.1 percent year-on-year in January and February.
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10.26.16How One City in China is Trying to Avoid a Property Boom and Bust
Financial Times
Chongqing mayor’s star rises thanks to scrutiny of real estate market
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10.24.16Fake Divorce is Path to Riches Buying Hot China Real Estate
Bloomberg
Rising property prices have been inspiring desperate measures, as frenzied buyers are seeking to act before further regulatory curbs are imposed
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10.21.16China’s Urbanites Embrace Sacrifice to Ride Property Frenzy
Reuters
There are signs mortgages are crimping household spending, in an economy increasingly reliant on domestic consumption
Caixin Media
10.12.16
Government Should Kick Land Sale Addiction to Cure Overheated Property Market
Chinese cities have rolled out new measures over the past week to cool a home-buying frenzy that has seen prices skyrocket, marking a new round of tightening since policies were eased two years ago. More than a dozen of China's largest cities,...
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10.04.16China Struggles to Curb Housing Bubble
Nikkei Asian Review
Even as Chinese authorities desperately try to cool down an overheated housing market, their efforts are unlikely to halt the rise of speculators greased by low borrowing costs
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04.19.16China’s Real Estate Conundrum: The Big Property Bubble vs. Ghost Towns
International Business Times
China is suffering from a glut of real estate development, the result of a massive boom in construction.
Caixin Media
04.05.16
No Point in Ramping Up Personal Debt to Help Property Market
Having banks and local governments deleverage and trim overcapacity are part and parcel with central government efforts to maintain stable growth by nurturing the supply side of the economy. But even as this is happening, the housing market has been...
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03.22.16A Growing Corner of China’s $2 Trillion Mortgage Market Looks a Lot Like the U.S. Subprime Bubble
Quartz
“If China allows high leverage in the housing market, it could lead to a financial disaster.”
Media
05.29.15
Is the Shanghai Stock Market Bubble Finally Bursting?
A customer strolls into a bookstore, goes the popular Chinese joke, and tells the salesperson: “I’m looking for a book with no killers, but much bloodshed; with no love, but great regret; with no spies, but constant paranoia. Can you make a...
Caixin Media
01.20.15Good Times Are Over for Local Governments
Two pieces of recent news have piqued the public's interest. First, local governments reported their latest debt figures to the Ministry of Finance. The numbers have not been made public, but sources say many officials reported large amounts in...
Features
12.10.14
Why Beijing’s Troubles Could Get a Lot Worse
from Barron’s
Few foreigners know China as intimately as Anne Stevenson-Yang does. She has spent the bulk of her professional life there since first arriving in 1985, working as a journalist, magazine publisher, and software executive, with stints in between...
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12.08.14Why Beijing’s Troubles Could Get a Lot Worse
Barron’s
Anne Stevenson-Yang: China, for all its talk about economic reform, is in big trouble. The old model of relying on export growth and heavy investment to power the economy isn’t working anymore.
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05.13.14China Real Estate Falls Back to Earth
New York Times
One of the world’s longest-running bull markets finally seems to be stalling, with broad consequences for China’s economy and possibly its politics as well.
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04.14.14China Property Collapse Has Begun
Forbes
Walmart will be closing its Zhaohui store in Hangzhou on April 23 as a part of its overall plan to dump marginal locations—about nine percent of the total—in China.
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09.03.13Across China, Skyscrapers Brush the Heavens
New York Times
China is home to 60 of the world’s 100 tallest buildings now under construction. But the skyward aspirations of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, have inspired incredulity tinged with hostility.
Media
03.15.13
CNBC Quarrel About China’s Housing Market Bubbles Over on Chinese Internet
China’s real estate prices continue to skyrocket despite government efforts to rein them in to prevent a dangerous housing bubble. On March 5, American television network CNBC invited two analysts to debate the state of the sector. But when Peter...
Conversation
03.08.13
Will China’s Property Market Crash, and So What If It Does?
Dorinda Elliott:At this week’s National People’s Congress, outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao proclaimed that the government kept housing prices from rising too fast. Really? I wonder what my 28-year-old Shanghainese friend Robert thinks about that. He and...
Sinica Podcast
04.30.10
Huang Guangyu Trial, Real Estate Dilemma
from Sinica Podcast
Huang Guangyu, the richest man in China, went on trial last week in Beijing. The founder of home electronics chain GOME was brought up on charges of bribery, money laundering, and insider trading. The dragnet in the investigation leading up to the...