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Upbeat News for China’s Deeply Troubled Property Sector?

Some recent signs of improvement are tentative, to be sure, and easy to dismiss but still not to be ignored.
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Upbeat News for China’s Deeply Troubled Property Sector?
An aerial view shows the Evergrande Wuhan culture-oriented travel city left unfinished amid a liquidity crisis in China on Oct. 18, 2021. Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Recently, signs of improvement have emerged in China’s housing market, and with these signs, some reason to hope that the country’s long-running and destructive property crisis may at last be turning.

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Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is “Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live.”