The Real Estate Climate Index Remain the General Level in August

In August, the real estate climate index was 101.86, remain the general level as compared with that in July, the year-on-year change was down by 3.10 points.

The land space development index was 96.25, an increase of 0.38 points as compared with that in July, and 1.50 points lower than the same month of previous year. From January to August, the complete land space development by real estate development enterprises was 11,000 million square meters, down by 2.3% as compared with that in previous year.

The investment index of real estate development was 101.69, up by 0.09 points as compare with that in July, and a drop of 1.27 points as compared with that in the same month of last year. From January to August, the total investment in real estate development throughout the country was 892.0 billion yuan, rose by 22.3% as compared with same period of last year. Of this total, that in residential buildings was 601.0 billion yuan, up by 21.5%; that of completed economic buildings and houses investment was 31.5 billion yuan, dropped by 13.8%.

The construction space index was 103.66, rose by 0.01 points as that compared with that in July, and 3.59 points lower as compared with that in the same month of last year. From January to August, the accumulative construction space was 131,000 million square meters, up by 18.9%. Of which, the construction space was 101,500 million square meters, a rise of 19.2%; that of the office buildings was 5415 million square meters, rose by 11.0%; and that of houses for business use was 16,700 million square meters, increased by 19.2%.

The capital source index was 101.30, a rise of 0.03 points over that in July, and a decrease of 3.10 points as compared with that in the same month of the previous year. From January to August, the capital source index of national real estate development enterprises was 1,271.2 billion yuan, rose by 22.8%. Of which, the domestic loans was 237.4 billion yuan, rose by 10.9%; that of self-raised funds was 437.4 billion yuan, rose by 38.8%; that foreign investment utilization was 16.5 billion yuan, rose by 26.8%.

The vacant floor space of commercial building index was 102.71, down by 0.57 points as compared with that in July, and dropped 6.77 points as compared with that in the same month of previous year. In the end of August, the vacant floor space of commercial buildings was 10,800 million square meters, a rise of 10.5% as that compared with the same period of last year. Of this total, the commercial buildings left unused was 6000 million square meters, up by 3.8%.

The sales price index of commercial house was 104.35, up by 0.14 points as compared with that in July, and 1.96 points lower than that in the same month of last year. From January to August, the average selling price of commercial housing was 2996 Yuan/Sq.Meter, that of office buildings and houses was 6786 Yuan/Sq.Meter; and that of business buildings and houses was 5223 Yuan/Sq.Meter.