China’s Home Price Growth at Weakest in Nearly a Year, Developers Seen Cutting Prices

China’s Home Price Growth at Weakest in Nearly a Year, Developers Seen Cutting Prices
Workers walk past a construction site of residential buildings by property developer Country Garden in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China on Sept. 17, 2019. Wong Campion/Reuters
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BEIJING—China’s new home prices grew at their weakest pace in nearly a year in August as a cooling economy and existing curbs on speculative buying put a dent on overall demand.

Wary of property bubbles, Chinese regulators have vowed to refrain from stimulating the real estate sector as they roll out measures to boost the broader economy hit by the Sino-U.S. trade war and slowing consumer demand.