Chinese property market not “frozen” after all!

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Great news! China is fixed:

The Beijing-based builder said a letter written by a local executive for verbal communication with officials in eastern Shaoxing city last week was only a draft that was “accidentally” sent to a chat group outside the company. It wasn’t submitted to the government, Sunac said in a statement. The group’s operations are healthy, it added.

Of course! Thanks for the timely disclosure. This is all just a mistake.

Funding isn’t “frozen”:

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Land sales aren’t “frozen”:

Transactions aren’t “frozen”:

Infrastructure isn’t partly “frozen”:

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Welcome to the sunny uplands of the Chinese developer boom.

Never invest in China.

About the author
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.