Chinese property bubble turns nuclear as buyer restrictions explode

Sunday 2 October 2016

Wowsers, from CREIS, which is a good guide to official real estate price indexes, up 2.83% month on month, 16.64% year on year in September:

Buying restrictions exploded as Golden Week kicked off, from Investing in Chinese Stocks:

Beijing, Tianjin and Suzhou are some of the cities that launched buying restrictions on September 30.

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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.