The dangerous bubble which for years has been brewing in China's housing market is bursting, changing the country's economy in a way that's still hard to predict, even for economists. The property ...

The concentrated nature of the real estate industry in China was a key factor triggering the ongoing property market crisis in the country, a new study by the University of Michigan has found. In 2018 ...

Average housing rents in Chinese cities slid to a four-year low in November due to supply gluts and job market weakness, potentially prolonging the country's property price slump, according to Nikkei ...

Years of inattention to building an adequate safety net for seniors, the jobless and others in financial stress have left Chinese consumers afraid to spend. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing In ...

Are China’s real estate problems different? When we published our paper “Peak China Housing” (based on pre-COVID data) in 2020, our thesis—that China was facing a difficult transition from real-estate ...

China’s ongoing housing bust won’t be short-lived, according to a report released by the International Monetary Fund last week. By the time China’s housing bust, which started in 2021, bottoms out ...

Go to college, find a job, buy a house, get married: For decades, homeownership has been seen as an essential part of life in China. Based on that long-standing truth, analysts are forecasting ...

On 17 May 2024, China introduced a range of measures aimed at stabilising its struggling property sector, which saw a 3.9 per cent year-on-year decline in new house prices in May 2024. This decline in ...

China’s real-estate bust left behind tens of millions of empty housing units. Now that historic glut of unoccupied property is colliding with China’s shrinking population, leaving cities stuck with ...