Via the AFR:
Metropolitan development sites values, which have surged in recent years on a wave of Chinese money, are showing the first signs of correcting after developer Nicholas Smedley secured two sites at discounts of 30 per cent or more after vendors rejected his original off-market offers, thinking they would get more through a public campaign.
Chinese buyers have quit the market in droves, and off-the-plan sales rates have slowed drastically in Sydney and Melbourne meaning the building boom is starting to wane.
