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China property

China property
China’s property market has surged in recent years. After prices jumped 25 per cent in 2009 alone, the central government imposed austerity measures, including lending curbs, higher mortgage rates and restrictions on the number of homes each family can buy.
People look at a property model displayed at the China International Fair for Trade in Services, in Beijing on September 12, 2025. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images
Banking & finance

Opinion | Why China is untangling its banks from the property wreckage

Authorities are rewiring financial architecture to address the systemic risk, breaking the deep structural ties between property and banking.

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Hong Kong property

Luxury housing boom keeps wealthy mainland Chinese buyers at home: report

China GDP

China’s slowing economic growth boosts case for stimulus

Shenzhen

China’s first-tier home prices extend 4-month rebound amid market stabilisation

However, only Shanghai recorded a year-on-year increase – of 3.1 per cent – with Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen all down.

Blocks of flats in Shanghai. Photo: JPix/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Tourism

Up Tempo? Hilton hotel brand taps into rising China tourism demand

US hotel operator says new lifestyle brand reflects its belief that the country’s tourism sector will continue to grow.

China consumption

‘Critical period’: Beijing unveils five-year plan to boost consumption

Policymakers set US$8.85 trillion retail goal for 2030, betting on services, property and cars to anchor growth amid weak demand.

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Hong Kong property

Hong Kong holds world’s costliest-property crown, but quality of life takes hit

Deutsche Bank cuts the financial hub’s quality-of-life standing as soaring expenses squeeze households, and Seoul emerges as a tech-driven regional competitor.

The Hong Kong skyline is seen from The Peak. Photo: Sam Tsang
China stock market

5 years after Evergrande, does China’s stock market signal a turnaround?

Domestic A-shares have returned to near-2021 levels as real interest rates decline, though researchers warn a sustained recovery is not yet guaranteed.

Property policies

China’s developers eagerly line up to offer commercial-property Reits

Exchanges receive 19 listing applications after enthusiastic investor reception for first four such trusts.

Mainland China

Expanding AI, chip firms push up rents in Beijing’s hi-tech area

Rents in Zhongguancun edge up slightly as capital’s office market shifts from passive adjustment to structural recovery, Knight Frank says.

People visit a terrace of a shopping mall overlooking the central business district in Beijing on August 11, 2025. Photo: Reuters
China economy

Chinese city ‘sold’ same plot of land 18 times to inflate fiscal revenue

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection says Nanning used tactic to mask budget strains.

Asset id: 2672530491 An aerial shot of the Asean Business District in Nanning, Guangxi. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Hong Kong property

Buyers eye Hong Kong luxury homes as agents predict mild price growth

Big-ticket luxury home prices expected to rise up to 2% as more buyers enter the market and momentum stays buoyant after strong first half.

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Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

China’s millionaire growth lags the global average. Is the wealth boom over?

Global personal wealth rose at its fastest pace in nearly a decade last year, though China saw only modest gains, according to a new report.

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Hong Kong

Will Fosun’s luxury project revive Hong Kong’s Movietown magic?

Fosun Group begins HK$10 billion transformation of legendary studio, signalling confidence in Hong Kong’s property recovery.

Fosun International chairman Guo Guangchang speaks Monday at the groundbreaking ceremony of a HK$10 billion residential project at the site of the Shaw Brothers studio in Clear Water Bay. Photo: Fosun
Mainland China

Will China’s new tech bases in Hebei and Tianjin revive local housing demand?

The new headquarters may boost rentals, but local home sales growth is likely to be far milder than surges in previous years, analysts say.

Pinduoduo has recently signed an agreement to set up a base at an e-commerce industrial park in the Xiongan New Area in Hebei province. Photo: Xinhua
China's economic recovery

China’s Xi joins leadership blitz of hub visits in pre-GDP fact-finding push

The president, premier and vice-premiers blanket agricultural and tech centres to gauge local strains and industrial progress before key July policy summit.

Accounting and auditing

Auditors face harsher penalties as China intensifies anti-fraud campaign

Beijing’s draft amendment toughens rules and extends liability, after PwC’s Evergrande penalties underscore audit failures.

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Property policies

Have China home prices hit bottom? Some buyers are hunting bargains

It’s a buyer’s market as signs of recovery in first-tier cities return bargaining power to home purchasers amid policy easing.

Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, where new home prices inched 0.2 per cent higher in May and second-hand home sales hit a five-year high in March with more than 31,000 properties changing hands. Photo: Getty Images
Shenzhen

Young tech elites drive rise in Shenzhen luxury home sales

Policy relaxations in core districts boost transactions, while ‘a positive wealth effect’ leads to sell-out sales in luxury projects.

Shenzhen

China’s first-tier new home prices rise for third month as measures take hold

Price gains in tier-one cities in May suggest confidence returning as policy support steadies sentiment.

China consumption

China sees first retail sales drop in over 3 years, prompting talk of stimulus

Despite surge in exports, the economy remained under pressure in May, with first decline in retail sales seen since end of Covid lockdown in late 2022.

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Customers shop at a supermarket in China’s eastern Shandong province. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong property

Hong Kong developer Lai Sun seeks note swap in bid to ease liquidity pressure

Noteholders, if eligible, can swap their holdings for notes in US dollar denominations.

A view of the CCB Tower in Central. Photo: Nora Tam
China's economic recovery

AI has boosted the US economy. Why isn’t it doing the same for China?

AI might be an economic panacea for the US, but it may not be one for China and the recovery of its real estate industry, one analyst says.

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Banking & finance

New York leads, but Asia-Pacific’s financial hubs are on the rise

The centre of gravity is shifting east in the financial services world, but New York remains the global benchmark, says Colliers report.

Banking & finance

New head of China’s financial regulator vows to prevent ‘blow-ups’

Ding Xiangqun identified smaller lenders, the property sector and local government debt as sources of risk while calling for tougher supervision.

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China’s newly appointed financial regulator chief Ding Xiangqun. Photo: Handout
Banking & finance

Why are Chinese savers moving money out of banks and into tech stocks?

Some commercial lenders have stopped offering long-term deposit products with higher interest rates.

An electronic board shows Shanghai stock indices in the city’s Lujiazui financial district in March. Photo: Reuters
Trending in China

Chinese homeowner buys 34th-floor flat in 32-storey building, gets no compensation

Buyer purchases new-build unit with limited property rights despite risks, ends up propertyless, mired in messy legal tussle.

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Mainland China

Park life: why China’s malls are building forests, waterfalls and sky walkways

Developers are getting creative as they try to entice China’s shoppers, who increasingly demand novelty and lush green space.

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