Chinese Buyers Seek Answers at Unfinished Evergrande Apartments

An unfinished residential building through a construction site gate at Evergrande Oasis, a housing complex developed by Evergrande Group in Luoyang city, China, on Sept. 16, 2021. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

Anxious home buyers flowed into the sales office of a housing complex in central China this week, yet found cranes lying idle and homes unfinished.

Images from the complex show bare steel and uncovered balconies of the 16 blocks of housing, which are at various stages of completion.