Investor confidence in China’s troubled property sector has been rocked again this week by reports that one of the country’s largest private building conglomerates missed interest payments on two bonds.

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    1 year ago

    Building ghosts cities to hold 30 million people and then not filling them. Who would have thought that’s not a valid strategy for property management?

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        1 year ago

        Some are, but not all. The point here is building entire towns or entire new city sectors in one fell swoop instead of planning them out and building them in stages so plans can be adjusted as needs inevitably change is a bad idea. It’s things like this that have directly led to the current property market crisis.

        Of course if buildings are already there it makes sense to use them, but they might have been able to put something better suited or more economically viable there if they had staggered the construction.

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      1 year ago

      Your propaganda is a decade out of date. If you actually read the article, the current issue is that a lot of people aren’t receiving the housing they prepaid for.

      Aside from that, I’ll take “too much housing” over the hell world of trying to find a place to live in the US any day of the week. The ghost cities complaint always seemed like coping to me.