Chinese property correction rolls on

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The stimulus party is in full swing. Shame about reality:

In the new home market, in the week of November 22 – 28, transaction volume in the 15 major cities reached 28,481 units, jumping by 37.12% from the previous week, according to Zhuge Zhaofang. In particular, new home transactions reached 2,350 units in Beijing, rising by 28.35% from the previous week. Transactions in Nanjing jumped 190.96% and in Chongqing surged 185.42%.

Xu Xiaole, chief analyst at Beike Research Institute, said that the pick-up was partly due to seasonal factor and also attributable to improving financing environment.

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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.