China’s home prices grew at the fastest pace in eight months in April after curbs failed to stem buyer enthusiasm.
New home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidized housing, rose 0.48% last month from March, when they gained 0.41%, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed Monday. Values in the secondary market, which faces less government intervention, climbed 0.4%, the same pace as a month earlier.
Buyer euphoria is persisting, with investors using real estate as a hedge against global inflation. That’s prompted authorities to issue a drumbeat of statements designed to cool down price expectations. Year-to-date residential sales have more than doubled from the same period in 2019 in cities including Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing, according to China Real Estate Information Corp.
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China home prices have rebounded from the pandemic despite curbs
Source: National Bureau of Statistics
Xi in late April repeated his mantra that houses are “for living in, not for speculation” when chairing a meeting of China’s 25-member Politburo, the Communist Party’s top ruling body. Last week, policy makers signaled they may revive efforts to introduce a long-delayed national real estate tax via a trial.
“The home market has remained sort of out of control, the wider the curbs, the more resilient the market becomes,” Yang Kewei, a research director at China Real Estate Information, said before the figures were released. “That’s why a trial of levy of home ownership may come sooner than expected, as a stronger show of policy strength.”
Price gains accelerated across large and small cities as developers ramped up project launches during a traditionally fast season for sales to recoup cash. Property sales surged 35% from a year earlier, a separate data release showed.
Price growth was particularly acute in tier-two regional centers, given their relatively looser restrictions and higher demand under further relaxing of centuries-old “hukou” residential permits. Cities that saw housing values climb 1% or more from March include Wuhan, the former epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and Haikou, the provincial hub of tropical Hainan.
— With assistance by Charlie Zhu, and Emma Dong
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