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Home market sees 1st batch of supply
SHANGHAI’S new housing market recorded its first batch of supply in four weeks while home-buying sentiment continued to be slack.
The area of new homes sold, excluding government-subsidized affordable housing, fell 4.2 percent to 87,000 square meters in the seven days ended Sunday, Shanghai Centaline Property Consultants Co said in a report yesterday.
Outlying Jiading and Qingpu districts led, with both posting weekly transactions at around 14,000 square meters. But that was a plunge of 33.3 percent and 17.6 percent, respectively, from the previous week.
“New supply finally returned to the city’s new home market after staying at zero for three consecutive weeks, which was very rare,” said Lu Wenxi, senior manager of research at Centaline. “Though only one project was released to the local market, that might still herald a recovery of developers’ sentiment.”
One housing project in Anting, Jiading District, launched some 45,000 square meters of new houses for sale last week, most of which were apartments whose areas were between 75 and 107 square meters.
Notably, it was the first housing project in Shanghai where a lottery-like registration system was implemented to decide the purchasing orders of home buyers — a latest effort by the local government to protect the rights and interests of buyers as well as to crack down on illegal sales in the real estate market.
New homes sold for an average 50,060 yuan (US$7,515) per square meter, up 8.6 percent week on week, according to Centaline data.
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