China unleashes its property monster

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China released August property price data over the weekend and the news is boom! Prices rose 1.4% on the month and 7% year on year:

Price rises are widespread:

It’s now only a handful of top tier cities sitting it out. Those with the most draconian macroprudential measures:

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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.