China new home prices fall at fastest pace in over 9 years

Since 2022, Chinese authorities have made more efforts to revive the troubled property market, which is a major force behind the world’s second-largest market, but a lasting recovery has a proven to be challenging.

Authorities pledged at a Politburo meeting last month to strengthen policies in order to clean the nation’s growing housing stock. Policymakers are weighing up a plan for local administrations to buy millions of unsold homes in the most recent effort, according to a report released by Bloomberg News earlier this month.

Investors are anticipating more metropolises to follow suit after two Chinese provincial capital, Hangzhou and Xian, lifted all household purchase curbs last week to entice customers and bolster their sagging property marketplaces.

It’s anyone’s guess if the most recent actions will encourage a significant recovery in the sector, which experienced a severe liquidity squeeze in 2021 as a result of an established crackdown on terrible debt.

Some observers in China believe that structural reforms and policy support measures may be necessary for a revival of the economy.

Of the 70 towns in the enclosure files, 64 reported drops in prices next month, more than the 57 places that did thus in March.

Property purchase and sales both decreased faster than expected in January and April, according to a separate NBS speech.