For Chinese looking to buy property overseas, Britain and the United States are the shop windows they have always looked into first.
Chinese families, ranging from the highly affluent to the middle class' upper crust, are showing a keener interest in purchasing overseas housing.
China's average home prices may climb 7.8 percent next year, with property investments increasing 17.1 percent.
China's residential land supplies in the first 11 months dropped by 15.3 percent from the same period last year.
China will continue to tighten its real estate policies next year, ruling out the possibility of surging home-price growth in 2013.
China vowed to continue to protect foreign investors' rights and interests and their intellectual property rights.
Recent rises in prices of new Beijing apartments will not increase pressure for the government to amend regulation of the sector.
An allowance for those who have waited three years to buy a home and are still waiting, is the least that the government can and should do.
Only a stable supply of land together with the punitive tax measures can tackle the housing problem in the long run.
CIC, the country's $410-billion sovereign wealth fund, is eyeing investment opportunities in the high-end property market in Paris.
Home buyers have frequently come across quality control problems in new housing, a phenomenon stemming from the practice of selling new homes before construction is completed.
China's real estate market heated up over the past few months, mainly driven by first-time buyers.
China's real estate investment continued to lose steam in the first seven months of the year while house sales remained on a downward track.
After nine consecutive months of month-on-month declines, property prices in China rallied in June, but a subsequent surge is unlikely.
Authorities in Beijing rejected the applications of more than 14,000 families who hoped to buy apartments last year amid the efforts to tighten the property market.
The People's Bank of China said Monday that commercial banks should put in place a differentiated credit policy to guarantee housing loans to qualified first-home buyers.
Home sales and property investment in China both slowed in the first two months of the year, as the correction in the real estate market deepened because of the government's continuing curbs on the property market.
China's fledgling real estate investment fund market could see a surge of activity in 2012, as property developers launch their own vehicles in a desperate bid to bridge an estimated $111 billion financing gap in the year ahead.
Foreign institutional investors have increasingly been exploring China's third- and even forth-tier cities, even though the central government is considering a list of smaller cities that will see home purchase restrictions.
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