Housing Prices Fall in Major Chinese Cities as Real Estate Market Cools

The “bitter winter” of the real estate sector is now a popular topic in Chinese public discourse.
Housing Prices Fall in Major Chinese Cities as Real Estate Market Cools
A real estate agent waits for customers inside his office in Beijing on Jan, 17, 2016. Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
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Throughout November, both property prices and transactions have maintained a downward slide in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Meanwhile, real estate developers have purchased less land, purchasing just 60 percent of the October total.

Chinadatapay, a Chinese data supplier, reported that in November, real estate developers made 68 purchases of land for a total value of 62.6 billion yuan ($9.16 billion)—the lowest land-purchase volume in 2018. It is just 35 percent of the figure for November 2017.
Nicole Hao
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.