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Posted: Tue 3:24, 14 Dec 2010 Post subject: Housing Market Hit by New Rules |
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In Guangzhou, only 308 apartments were traded online, on Monday, according to the Land Resources and House Management Bureau. This represented a big decrease for a single day.
And the average price was 8,Hold,600 yuan ($ 1,320) a square meter, the first time the price has dropped below 9,000 yuan a square meter in two years.
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The city's new rules now require buyers to have a household registration, or hukou, and a marriage certificate to purchase an apartment.
Dalian, in Liaoning province, is the latest to join in this move to control the rampant property market. On Tuesday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it suspended second-home purchases for families who are residents,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while denying new home loans for migrant families who have not worked in the city for at least one year, said a local official.
Wei Chao, at the Hulian Housing Agency, admitted that this has been his toughest season since he began three years ago: \situation because some agents haven't sold a single house in the past week.
At the same time, the amount of deposits for first and second home purchases has been raised.
Meanwhile, those who are buying an apartment for themselves as a place to live in are less influenced by the new policy, Luo said.
Thirteen other cities now have similar loan caps and higher down payment to cool down the overheated property market.
Property prices in Guangzhou hit more than 25,000 yuan a square meter in the busiest areas in previous months.
Cheng Yun, of Guangdong Centraline Property Co Ltd, said most would-be property buyers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Cheng estimated that property prices in Guangzhou will fall at least 10 percent over the next few months.
The restrictions apply to both new and second-hand homes and those below the age of 18 cannot purchase a home by themselves.
Luo Yinshe at Midland Realty Shanghai, told China Daily that around 5 percent of buyers have cancelled their new apartment orders.
The secondary housing market is even more discouraging. Cancellations of orders have risen by as much as 10 percent for some real estate agents as a direct result of the city's new policies.
In Shanghai, 799 apartments were handled on Oct 11,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the figure was 420 on Oct 17. Daily property transactions fell by more than 60 percent over the past week, compared with the September figures.
Local property agents say that some people who had made a deposit on an apartment have begun to break the agreement because they're worried that prices will fall after the new limits take effect.
Meanwhile, in nearby Shenzhen and on up in Shanghai, where limits on purchases were already introduced, transactions have seen a sharp drop in the past few weeks.
Property sales have seen a sharp drop and there's been an increase in the number of cancellations of home orders in Chinese cities that have introduced regulations to limit purchases of property.
The ruling that limited the new apartment purchases to one unit per household has changed many property investors' ideas and these have been a major reason for the cancellation of orders.
Zhou Yuzhong, a lawyer, said that these people will not get a refund on their deposit because of the breach of contracts and some might have to make an extra payment for breaking the agreement.
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