2026-10-15
On October 15, according to a Reuters report, IMF Asia-Pacific Department Head Srinivasan stated in Bangkok that China's economic growth still mainly relies on external demand, the scale of fiscal stimulus is limited, and the real estate crisis has dragged on too long, calling on the government to boost household confidence and improve the social security system.
2026-10-14
A homebuyer recounts that after purchasing a home in 2020, a drop in income forced them to suspend mortgage payments for 12 months, now facing court-ordered forced auction and massive losses.
2026-10-08
On October 8, Hong Kong's Buildings Department confirmed that in a Starter Homes for Hong Kong Residents scheme project developed by CK Asset Holdings in collaboration with the HKSAR government, six residential towers had rebar configurations that deviated from the drawings, requiring remedial work or demolition and reconstruction.
2026-10-08
On October 8, several contractors at the Yuanda SOHO development in Changchun, Jilin Province, staged a banner protest at the entrance of the property's marketing center, demanding payment, as the developer, Changchun Yuanda Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., still owed construction funds two years after the handover of the units.
2026-10-04
On October 4, the Hong Kong Buildings Department confirmed in a notice that the rebar configuration of some floor slabs and beams at the luxury development ONE STANLEY did not match the approved drawings.
2026
In the first half of 2026, the proportion of Chinese homeowners over the age of 60 listing their properties for sale soared to 22.7%, a significant increase from 11.3% in 2022.
2026-09-21
Instead of focusing on GDP, look at “hard power”: youth unemployment rate is 18.9%, AI continues its great leap forward. On September 21, The New York Times reported that while the unemployment rate for non‑student Chinese youth aged 16‑24 has risen to 18.9% and consumption and real estate remain sluggish, Beijing is still preparing to pour massive resources into artificial intelligence. Bloomberg previously said China is planning to invest about $295 billion over the next five years to build… #Xi Jinping
2026-09-21
On September 21, due to four years of unpaid wages for migrant workers at the Zhaotong Sunac Jiutangfu project, workers dismantled the previously installed aluminum panel materials on-site, with multiple law enforcement officers and workers present to observe.
2026-09-17
On September 17, at the entrance of the Huazhang Xuanhua Computing Power Hub Industrial Base in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, multiple migrant workers hung a banner reading "Please pay last year's arrears of migrant workers' wages," publicly demanding their unpaid labor compensation.
2026-09-14
September 14, Guangdong Shenzhen Jindi Center, multiple migrant workers went to the building to protest over unpaid wages. The workers said that before protesting they had completed legal procedures such as filing lawsuits and arbitration and had won, but still have not received the owed wages.
2026-09-16
Contractors for the China Co-op Wenxi Mansion project in Jishou City, Hunan Province, hung banners in front of the marketing center demanding payment after the developer defaulted on their payments.
2026-09-15
The National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that national fixed-asset investment fell 7.2% year on year from January to August, while real estate development investment fell 19.9% year on year.
2026-09-09
On September 9, multiple workers from the Longhu Shangcheng project in Xianyang, Shaanxi, went to the sales office to demand payment of overdue wages, but were blocked outside the door by security guards.
2026-09-01
Owners of the Jingxi Yinyue residential community in Fangshan, Beijing, gathered to defend their rights and confronted police over insufficient parking spaces caused by planning defects, poor vehicle management, and fire safety hazards.
2026-08-28
Owners of a residential development in Chengdu gathered to defend their rights over numerous safety problems at the property. After police took away some of them, the remaining owners surrounded the officers and demanded their release.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the People’s Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly issued new real estate credit policy rules, officially extending the maximum term of personal housing loans from 30 years to 40 years, sparking widespread public debate.
2026-08-20
Shanghai has introduced the “Eight Shanghai Measures,” a package of optimized real estate control policies; Hu Liren believes this is a trap to drain the savings of ordinary people and plunge them deep into mortgage debt.
2026-08-17
From January to July 2026, China's real estate development investment fell 19.2% year-on-year, while data related to newly started projects fell 24%.
2026-08-02
In his program on August 2, 2026, Hu Liren predicted that within one year from August 1, Chinese real estate values would fall by at least 20% to 25%, saying this is a political necessity rather than an economic law.
2026-07-27
During a rights defense gathering by property owners at Victoria Bay, police set up human walls and privacy screens; that evening, some owners were cleared by police and taken away.
2026-07-15
China's real estate investment fell sharply by 18% year-on-year in the first half of this year, and the real estate market continues to decline.
2026-07-15
In the first half of the year, national real estate development investment fell 18% year-on-year, further widening from the previous -15.2%; new residential construction starts fell 23.4%, sales fell 13.6%, and funds received by real estate developers fell 10.2%.
2026-07
Citing real estate agents, the video says that some homes in Shanghai have been listed for half a year without a single viewing, property transactions are difficult and prices keep being cut, with the market showing prices but no buyers.
2026-07
Data shows that from January to June, China's national fixed asset investment fell 5.7% year-on-year, private investment fell 8.5%, and real estate development investment fell 18%.
2026-07
According to CRIC data, from January to July 2026, the cumulative sales volume of the top 100 real estate enterprises was 1,591.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 14.6%.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's new home prices fell 0.2% month-on-month in May, while the decline in existing home prices was the largest in three months, showing that pressure from the property market adjustment has yet to ease.
2026-06
The program pointed out that Chinese youth face severe unemployment issues, and the real estate market continues its sluggish decline, leading to a large number of people facing bankruptcy. Many families resort to robbing Peter to pay Paul to repay mortgages, making life extremely difficult.
2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, a netizen submission claimed that a supermarket owner in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, publicly sought redress, saying that the supermarket was forcibly evicted by the developer and subjected to violent expulsion, that repeated calls to the police yielded no results, and that no lawyer dared to take the case.
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2026-05
From January to May 2026, China's urban fixed-asset investment fell 4.1% year-on-year, with real estate development investment down 16.2% and manufacturing investment contracting.
2026-05
According to data from the China Index Research Institute, in May 2026 the national average house price fell 3.6% year-on-year and 0.2% month-on-month, indicating the real estate market remains sluggish.
2026-04-25
On April 25, 2026, the blogger went to the Zhaoxin Hui office building in the core business district of Shenzhen for an on-site visit. The building has a grand exterior with 61 floors, but the blogger found that floors 21 to 60 were almost entirely vacant, and most floors were still in shell condition, with only the ground floor and the 61st floor finished. In the video, the blogger questioned why a skyscraper built with huge investment is largely idle, implying that the developer may have issues with cash flow or project progress.
2026-02
S&P’s February 2026 report said that China’s housing supply exceeds demand, and that home prices are expected to fall another 2% to 4% in 2026, with steeper declines in core cities, creating a vicious cycle.
2026
According to online claims, based on completed-but-unsold and under-construction potential inventory, China's real estate inventory is about 93 trillion yuan, or roughly 80 million units; no public source can be found for this calculation.
2025
Affected by the downturn in the real estate market, China's land finance revenue dropped to 4.15 trillion yuan, which has been halved compared to the peak in 2021.
2025
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2025, nationwide sales of newly built commercial housing totaled 8,393.7 billion yuan, down 12.6% year on year; in 2021, commercial housing sales were 18,193.0 billion yuan.
2024-05
China introduced a policy to lower the mortgage down payment ratio to 15% in order to boost the property market.
2022-01-28
On January 28, 2022, the Ministry of Finance announced that income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights in 2021 was 8.7051 trillion yuan (about 8.7 trillion yuan), an increase of 3.5% year on year, hitting a record high.
2022
Land transfer revenue peaked at 8.7 trillion yuan in 2021, then recorded double-digit declines for four consecutive years starting in 2022, falling to 4.15 trillion yuan in 2025, a drop of about 52.3% from the peak.
2021
In 2021, China's housing prices peaked, and land sale revenue hit a record high of 8.71 trillion yuan, followed by a significant annual decline.
2019
The host said that several people who followed his advice returned to China in early 2019 and sold properties in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, Hainan, Zhuhai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and other places.
2016
In 2016, Xi Jinping proposed that housing is for living in, not for speculation, in an attempt to push down housing prices. Local governments passively resisted due to fiscal and debt problems, and collective incidents of unpaid wages for teaching staff and public employees occurred. Xi Jinping ultimately abandoned this policy and turned to backstopping local government debt.
2011-11
When the project building was nearing completion and about to start collecting rent, Shenzhen Metro Group transferred its entire 60% share to Yuanwei Enterprises.
2011
Tan Deku and his partner Jia Guichen jointly acquired Sanya Shanhaiguan Real Estate Co., Ltd. Tan Deku invested funds and served as the project manager in charge of developing the Shanhai Jingyuan residential community.
2011
Shenzhen Metro Group completely transferred up to 60% of the state-owned shares in the Dongmen Old Street overhead property project to Yuanwei Industry, turning the project into private property for the elite.
2010
In 2010, the central government introduced the 'Ten National Measures' and supply restriction orders to further tighten control over housing prices, yet it still failed to reverse the trend of prices rising despite the regulations.
2006
Ren Zhiqiang's remarks on commodity housing at a public forum were taken out of context by the media, leading to him being labeled as 'only building houses for the rich', and the nickname 'Ren Cannon' spread as a result.
2005
In 2005, the central government issued the 'Eight Measures' to control housing prices, but due to a lack of control over local governments, the results were concerning.
2004-06-14
On June 14, 2004, Taishan Oil transferred the 75% stake it held in Taishan Real Estate to Capital Investment (Qingdao) for 123 million yuan, and the remaining 25% stake was transferred to NC International free of charge.
2004-06
In June 2004, the feasibility report for the Qingdao mega refinery project was approved by the State Council. The project was the first refinery in China approved with a single-phase construction capacity of 10 million tons; Li Wei used this to develop related real estate business in Qingdao.
2004
When the air rights property project above Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street subway station was established, Shenzhen Metro Group held 60% equity, and Yuanwei Industrial held 40%.
2002
In 2002, Du Shicheng supported converting a green space at Taiping Jiao in the Badaguan protected area into a real estate project, and criticized the opposition voiced by the Qingdao Municipal People's Congress.
1997
In the early stage of China's real estate industry, the term of personal housing mortgage loans was stipulated to be no longer than 20 years at most.
1990
In the 1990s, Japan's real estate and stock market bubble burst. According to Nomura Research Institute estimates, roughly $9.3 trillion in national wealth evaporated between 1990 and 2002, and the unemployment rate rose gradually after 1992.