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Shanghai launches clampdown on property market doom-mongering, targeting RedNote, Bilibili

Shanghai has launched a crackdown on online content that talks down the property market, as the sector remains mired in…

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As homes fail to sell in mainland China’s depressed market, sellers turn to superstition

For homeowners in mainland China, selling a property has become so difficult that some are turning to xuanxue, a neo-Taoist…

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How China’s ‘emotional spending’ trend is transforming shopping malls

In a central Wuhan shopping centre, a banner for a new Pop Mart hangs where an Air Jordan store once…

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Opinion | Amid a wave of foreclosures, China’s homeowners could use a break

Few outside China might know that e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com host the country’s largest online platforms for distressed property…

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China’s second-half property outlook to pick up as slump recedes, Morgan Stanley says

China’s major property developers can expect their businesses to pick up in the remaining six months of this year as…

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China property market heats up in core cities amid recovery led by policy moves

China’s property market is showing new signs of life as developers bid for rare, centrally located plots amid a retreat…

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Chinese cities must buy back more land faster to aid property developers, analysts say

Local governments in mainland China are speeding up their purchases of idle land from developers, but more cities need to…

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Analysts expect China property market recovery in 2025 after seeing improvement in January

Analysts believe a broad recovery in China’s property market would come this year, after new home prices in first-tier cities…

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China needs to trim housing glut as priority to repair confidence, analysts say

China’s beleaguered housing market is likely to endure another chastening year as some analysts forecast home prices to weaken further…

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Shenzhen joins Chinese local governments taking unsold homes off developers’ hands

Shenzhen has become the first tier-1 Chinese city to buy up unsold homes, joining several other local governments that heeded…

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