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Foreign military officers engage in fieldwork in Chuzhou, Anhui province in 2009, as part of their training at China's Nanjing Army Command College. (File photo by Xinhua News Agency) BEIJING - Wan Fuming, a middle-aged Chinese man with short black hair and shrewd eyes, is ...
More buyers are not in a hurry to purchase homes and adopt a "wait-and-see" stance as central government policies aimed to rein in speculation in property over the past week are raising their hopes that record high housing prices may finally start to fall. Several major estate ...
Existing housing prices are already out of the reach for most people in key cities, so who are the major buyers? Netizens believe the country's property sector is heading to a dead end. Provided to China Daily How much should two chicken pancakes cost? For Zhao Rui, a 28-year-old ...
A worker builds a wall at a construction site in Nantong, Jiangsu province. [China Daily] An increasing number of foreign institutional investors are flooding into China's property market via taking part in the development stage, lured by the sector's high investment returns and ...
A worker paints a wall at a building under construction in Nanjing. [China Daily] China's two major ministries in charge of housing development are organizing a large-scale inspection across the country to check the implementation of existing real estate policies, paving the way ...
A property project is seen from the World Expo campus in Shanghai. [China Daily] The recently concluded World Expo has provided a rich heritage for Shanghai, in the form of upgraded infrastructure, outdoor decoration and massive greening. In addition, analysts said the spacious ...
An employee fixing the model of a property project at a recent housing expo in Hangzhou. [China Daily] China's real estate investment trust (REITs) plan is now in the last lap of approval from the State Council, after getting the green light from the concerned ministries, sources ...
Apartment rents in China's major cities witnessed sustained growth in the first six months of the year even though property prices saw a gradual drop. In Beijing, the average rent of an apartment rose to 2,792 yuan (US$410.6) a month in the first half of the year, a year-on-year ...
A Vantone booth at an international housing fair in Beijing. [China Daily] Beijing Vantone Industrial Co Ltd signed a framework agreement with appliance and TV maker TCL Corp, to explore the industrial property sector via a joint venture. The new venture, Vantone Innovation ...
A common tenant in real estate is location, location, location. On Saturday, a promotion held in Beijing for StarRiver, a housing community in Taiyuan, emphasized the community s culture, culture, culture. Photo by Zhang Aidong/China.org.cn] Developed by Star River Property ...
Customers browse through promotional materials at the 2010 Summer Housing Fair in Dalian, Liaoning province. [China Daily] Aetos Capital, the US investment management firm, is investing $50 million in a joint venture with Yida Group to develop a residential project in Dalian, ...
The Global Property Guide's latest survey of house prices shows an uneven recovery in global housing markets during the year to the end of the 1st half of 2010. Some East Asia countries are enjoying runaway house price booms. Singapore has been a spectacular performer with 34% ...
A construction site in Changsha. Second-tier cities have become hot destinations for property investment. [China Daily] Citic Capital Holdings Ltd, the investment arm of sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, has invested 1.5 billion yuan ($220 million) in a ...
A US saleswoman talks with a potential Chinese homebuyer at a real estate exhibition in Beijing. [China Daily] The impact of the financial crisis on the housing market in the United States has provided more opportunities for international investors, with Chinese buyers one of the ...
Real estate tycoons in China have seen their wealth shrink by 25 percent over the past three years thanks to government attempts to curb the rampant property speculation in the city. The Hurun Research Institute's China Property Rich List reported on Tuesday that the 50 richest ...
A woman examines the latest property offers on a bulletin board on Yabaolu Street in Beijing in this file photo taken in early July. [China Daily] With sky-high property prices being the norm across China, many city dwellers are fueling rampant rental markets as they shelve their ...
The vice president of Star River Property Holdings Ltd Liang Shangyan tells a Beijing press conference that the Shanghai Star River community is to become the permanent home of the Wind Wall designed by Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue, formerly installed in the China Pavilion at the 2010 ...
Local governments in many cities will continue restricting home purchases into the new year, in response to the central government's efforts to further curb property price increases in 2011. Fuzhou, Xiamen and Haikou, which saw their home purchase restrictions expire on Dec 31, ...
A couple from overseas chooses housing at a real estate fair in Beijing. An industry source says the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will regularly assess overseas capital's entry to the property market with the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of ...
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