Losers riot over falling Chinese house prices

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Anyone that tracked the last downturn in Chinese property in 2011 will recall that riots broke out as developers discounted. It’s begun again. From MarketWatch:

In one case, scores of property owners surrounded a Shanghai sales office of Greentown China Holdings Ltd. 3900, +7.19% GTWCF, -33.19% to protest the developer’s 25% cut to prices within a five-day period, according to a report on the NetEase NTES, +2.06% news portal site 163.com.

Protesters held banners with slogans such as “You cheated us!”…

…In the eastern city of Jinan, banner-carrying owners blocked a street to protest another 25% price cut for a local housing development, this one conducted over the space of two weeks, according to the local-government-run Life Daily newspaper.

The protesters clashed with a group of counter-protestors suspected to have been hired by local developers, injuring some of the demonstrators…

It’s going to get worse!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.