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China Real Estate. Does What Goes Around Come Around?

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

When China's real estate market started heating up a few years ago, Beijing tightened the rules for foreigners buying property. I just read an interesting and quite convincing article, entitled, "Shrinking House Sales and the Fear of 'Deep Adjustment' Across China," the thesis of which is that the value of residential real property in China is declining and the tea leaves say it may well start tanking even more soon. I buy that. Might declining China real estate prices lead Beijing to revert back to the old rules and make it relatively easy again for foreigners to buy property in China? What do you think? Of course, nothing will happen until after the Olympics, but then what?

Full post as published by China Law Blog on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).