Foreign investors store up properties
(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-07-19 11:34
Recently, China issued a set of new regulations concerning the property
market in an effort to control the soaring housing prices. These regulation,
however, will not stop foreign investors from buying properties in the mainland.
On the contrary, more foreign capital has kept flowing into China's real estate
market over the past two months. Analysts say that since China will soon issue
some new regulations to constrain foreign capital from entering into domestic
real estate market, foreign investors will take this last chance to store up
land properties before the new regulations are enacted.
In last May, the Kaide Zhidi Real Estate Co., Ltd., a Singaporean company,
and the Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group worked together to set up a joint
venture. The Singaporean company invested 1.09 billion yuan buying 50% of the
shares in the new company. On June 13, Morgan Stanley spent 800 million yuan
buying 116 luxury apartments in Shanghai. On July 13, the Standard Chartered
Bank announced that it had invested 370 million Hong Kong dollars in the Green
City (China) Co., Ltd.
Meanwhile, investing activities from Hong Kong are active as well. The No.1
Shanghai Investing Company announced that they had put in 85 million yuan to buy
the Zhongshan Cailian Zhiye Company. By this single deal, the No.1 Shanghai
Investing Company had obtained the land use right to 100,000 square meters of
land and the construction of a project named "Sheng Xian Zhuang." It had also
obtained the land use right to 8,000 square meters of land for road
construction.
While big foreign financing institutions increase their investment in
domestic property market, many other overseas institutions will follow suit
lately.
Director of the Research Department of the Shanghai Fuyang Property
Management Consulting Firm Hu Xin said that the new regulations published not
long ago had raised the threshold of real estate investment. Many domestic
property developers therefore have encountered some problems in their cash flow.
Foreign real estate developers, however, do not have problems in this aspect. So
they have taken the chance to buy a slew of properties in
China.
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