With China property-market deep freeze thawing,… The policy ‘arrows’ Beijing fired in November will aid debt-trapped developers, but observers differ on the timing…
Can China’s depressed mortgage rates bring… Average borrowing costs have fallen to a 13-year low and are possibly cheaper in certain cities across China.…
China stock rebound is ‘technical’ and likely to… Investors should not chase high-flying Chinese stocks as market fundamentals are still weak despite hopes for a…
CIFI suspends bond payments, joins list of… The company joins Country Garden and Longfor on a list of developers once considered healthy but exhibiting signs…
HSBC profit falls 46 per cent as two biggest… HSBC’s net profit fell to US$1.9 billion as it took US$1.1 billion in reserves to reflect the uncertain economic…
Local Chinese governments snap up new homes to… The authorities in Suzhou in the southern province of Jiangsu snapped up 5,000 new units in September, while…
China offers mortgage cut to boost home sales in… The central bank gives local governments the green light to woo first-time homebuyers in what analysts see as a…
Embattled developer Sino-Ocean has credit rating… Fitch said that the downgrade reflected tightened liquidity at a Sino-Ocean finance unit, which has had a negative…
China property developers’ woes threaten… Two-thirds of major listed companies in closely aligned sectors such as construction reported falling first-half…
Plunging profits leave China’s home builders… The debt crisis is deepening, as interim results from the country’s biggest developers showed most of them…