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China new-home prices fall for first time in six years
by AFP Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2021

China's new-home prices fell for the first time in six years last month, data showed Wednesday, as the property sector struggles after a government clampdown, while a default at several major developers added to contagion concerns from the Evergerande crisis.

The latest reading follows official figures showing the real estate and construction industries shrank in the third quarter for the first time since the early stage of the pandemic, which acted as a huge drag on the world's number two economy.

Figures on Wednesday showed that the cost of new homes in 70 large and medium-sized cities saw a small decrease in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said without giving a precise percentage, though Bloomberg calculations found they dropped by around 0.08 percent.

That represents the first drop since April 2015.

Prices in the secondary market slipped 0.19 percent, a second monthly fall, Bloomberg said.

The latest readings will be considered especially worrying as September is usually seen as a peak season for the home market, and emerge as property firms come under the spotlight after the government began clamping down on their borrowing.

This has in turn limited their ability to press on with building and selling projects, putting even more pressure on their bottom lines.

The biggest casualty of the crackdown is China Evergrande, one of the nation's biggest property developers, which is teetering on the brink as it struggles under debts of more than $300 billion.

The firm has missed several payments on its bonds and a 30-day grace period on an offshore note is up on Saturday, leaving investors concerned about what will happen. Still, it has managed to meet its domestic obligations.

Fears that the firm could collapse and send shockwaves through the Chinese economy -- and possibly globally -- rattled markets earlier this month, though Beijing has said any fallout would be containable.

Several domestic property rivals have in recent weeks already defaulted on debts and have seen their ratings downgraded.

Hong Kong-listed Sinic Holdings became the latest to miss a payment, S&P Global Ratings said Wednesday.

S&P said the latest non-payment would "trigger cross defaults and accelerate demands for repayment of the company's other debts... some of which are already overdue".

Mid-sized competitor Fantasia also failed to meet obligations in recent weeks, which triggered downgrades to "selective default" by S&P and "-CCC" by Fitch Ratings.

China's property sector has been under tightened scrutiny since regulators announced caps for three different debt ratios in a scheme dubbed "three red lines" last year.

Despite concerns about the sector, Oxford Economics' head of Asia economics Louis Kuijs said: "While a major housing downturn in China can't be ruled out, we think the most likely scenario is a contained short-term downturn combined with a gradual, managed long-term retrenchment."


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China property, construction sectors contract for first time since Covid hit
Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2021
China's real estate and construction sectors shrank in the third quarter for the first time since the early stage of the pandemic, official data showed Tuesday, as they face increasing pressure from a sprawling crackdown on the country's ailing property industry. The figures come a day after figures showed the world's second-biggest economy grew slower than forecast in the same period owing to the regulatory tightening as well as an energy crunch. Real estate output shrank 1.6 percent on-year, t ... read more

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