[photopress:property_Shenzen.jpg,full,alignright]It is easy to get confused as the heading shows; almost impossible to see an overall pattern. In April non-residential property prices grew 6.5%, rate of growth down 0.4 percentage points.
So non-residential was going up, but not as much as it used to. This decline in the rise is patchy. And there are places where it is all decline.
According to a report released by Centaline (China) Shenzhen-Hong Kong Property Research Center, the average housing price in Shenzhen’s six districts dropped to RMB11,143 per square meter in May, down 23% from a year ago and 7% from April, on Tuesday. Those are substantial drops.
Can Shenzhen can look forward to boom times again?
Wang Shitai, brand manager of Sunstars Real Estate in Shenzhen said, ‘Despite the rise in transactions, I’m not optimistic about Shenzhen’s housing market in the near future.
‘Developers will have to slash prices further in order to boost sales to maintain their businesses. Many have offered prices as low as RMB5,500 per square meter in order to attract enough buyers.’
China Overseas Property, a major real estate developer in Shenzhen, launched a new housing estate, Xi’an Huafu, in Bao’an District on May 31, with opening prices of RMB5,500 per square meter, the lowest in the district this year.
The developer launched another project, Kangcheng Guoji, in early June, and set the opening price at RMB4,988 per square meter.
So, no, the boom days are not likely to return in the near future. And, yes, this is what the government was working towards.
Guo Shiping, an economics professor at Shenzhen University, said ‘When prices drop further and more investors fail to pay the mortgages, all of them will suffer.’ That is what happened with the sub-prime crisis in the United States. Only in China it will not be such a disaster.
Source: Window of China
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