Beijing's directives make sense as a greater portion of future housing demand will come from owners looking to upgrade, Fitch ...

Is the Same Happening in China?Economist Richard Koo says China is now facing the same kind of “balance sheet recession.” After years of supplying easy credit to the property market, Beijing’s move in ...

China will not release early 2025 figures for housing sales and starts until March 17, but analysts at Nomura said in a recent note that sales and prices early this year were holding up better than ...

The brief bubble deflated quickly ... The boom is well over, and China’s housing crisis lies at the heart of the current economic downturn. Real estate prices have collapsed.