The strangers and the Chinese real estate market

The real estate acquirement in China proves to be riskier than foreseen, in part because of laws on the subject too imprecise or insufficient. Numerous acquirements are achieved in an illegal manner. According to the Xinhua agency, 60% of the land sales are done without the previous agreement indispensable of the authorities. Besides, some foreign purchasers frequently, see the owners annulling a sale without wanting to restore the sum put in deposit. This situation is only adjusted after assignment of the contravening before the courts.

The strangers and the Chinese real estate market
Other brake to the acquirement:  the home loans. Indeed, these are limited, for the strangers, to five million yuan, what makes difficult the financing of big projects as the properties of luxury. To title of example, the middle price of a villa in Peking in a complex upscale, is of 20 million yuan, the dearest having been sold for 48.8 million yuan. This limitation leads the following situation:  all owners of villas of this complex are of Chinese nationality, expatriated for most, and having adjusted counting their acquirement.
These brakes to the acquirement don't yet cool the foreign investors, always more and more numerous to let themselves tempt by the promising perspectives of the Chinese real estate market.
Indeed, the economic growth in China of these last years incited good number of strangers to invest on the real estate market. To acquire Chinese properties is more affordable than to invest in Hong Kong or Tokyo. Makes encouraging:  the perspectives of reappraisal of the Yuan could drive to a rise of the value of the real estates. The recent measures taken by the government to slow down the increase in prices had for consequence to increase the demand.
Last encouraging forecasting:  the decrease of the prices of the market, next mid-August, of 10 to 15% announced by the agency real estate Centaline Group.


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