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Source-reported indicators show continued declines in home prices and a large inventory overhang, with S&P projecting weaker 2026 sales and further price drops. Policy support has reduced near-term project stress but appears insufficient to restore demand, leaving ongoing risks for developers, banks, and local-government finance.
The source indicates China’s housing market remained in contraction into early 2026, with 70-city new-home prices down 3.1% y/y in January and S&P projecting a 10–14% fall in primary sales this year. Persistent oversupply, developer stress, and linkages to LGFVs and shadow credit continue to pose macro-financial risks and weigh on growth.
2025 indicators suggest China’s property sector is undergoing a prolonged structural contraction, with sales far below the 2021 peak and large estimated vacant inventory weighing on prices and demand. Spillovers into shadow lending and local-government-linked debt are emerging as key stability challenges, even as core banking risks appear contained by conservative underwriting and regulatory buffers.
GAM’s January 2026 assessment suggests China’s housing downturn is structurally reducing construction-led growth while remaining largely contained within leveraged developers rather than household mortgages. Policy support since 2022 aims to stabilise the sector and pivot growth toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand, with equities positioned as a potential beneficiary of shifting household asset preferences.
Reuters-cited NBS data show China’s new home prices fell again in January 2026, with declines broadening across most surveyed cities and year-on-year drops accelerating. Policy easing and selective state involvement may slow monthly declines, but oversupply—especially in lower-tier cities—and weak confidence continue to constrain recovery prospects.
Source reporting indicates China’s housing market remains under pressure into early 2026, with broad-based price declines, weak demand, and elevated inventories limiting the impact of policy easing. Spillovers to local government finance, banks, and shadow credit channels remain key macro risks, while increased data opacity complicates market assessment.
According to NBS data cited in the source, China’s housing market weakened further in December 2025, with year-on-year price declines across 70 major cities and sharper falls in the resale segment, including first-tier cities. The document also points to rising mortgage stress, low foreclosure clearance rates, and widespread developer losses as factors that may prolong balance-sheet pressure across the economy.
The source argues China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by affordability constraints and policy tightening, with the sharpest stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers and offshore credit. It assesses mortgage and banking risks as contained, while estimating a sizable near-term GDP drag that should diminish as policy pivots toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
Reuters-cited NBS data show China’s new home prices fell again in January 2026, with declines broadening across most surveyed cities and resale prices remaining under pressure. Policy easing and selective state involvement are slowing the pace of deterioration, but oversupply and fragile confidence continue to constrain a durable recovery.
Source data indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with renewed price declines, large inventories, and further expected sales contraction. Policy is shifting from broad market support toward more administratively managed supply, while spillovers to growth, household confidence, and local government finance remain significant.
Official January data cited by Reuters show China’s new home prices fell 0.4% month-on-month and 3.1% year-on-year, with 62 of 70 surveyed cities recording declines. Policy easing and selective state involvement have yet to deliver a broad recovery, while analysts highlight lower-tier inventory and ongoing developer funding strains as key constraints.
Source data indicates China’s housing market remained under pressure in early 2026, with broad-based price declines and S&P forecasting a sharper fall in primary sales. Policy easing has slowed the downturn but has not restored buyer confidence or resolved oversupply, sustaining macroeconomic headwinds.
According to GAM Investments, China’s property downturn is shifting from a cyclical correction into a structural downshift in demand, with developer stress and offshore credit losses but comparatively contained mortgage and banking risks. The drag on GDP is assessed as significant in 2024–2025 but expected to narrow, while weaker housing sentiment and low deposit rates may accelerate a reallocation of domestic savings toward equities.
Official data cited by Reuters show China’s new home prices fell 0.4% month-on-month in January and declined 3.1% year-on-year, with 62 of 70 surveyed cities posting drops. Despite policy easing and selective state-linked interventions, weak demand and heavy lower-tier inventories continue to pressure developers and constrain a consumption-led recovery.
Source data indicates China’s housing market remained under pressure in early 2026, with broad-based price declines and a downgraded sales outlook amid weak demand and elevated inventories. Policy easing continues, but confidence and developer funding constraints suggest a prolonged adjustment rather than a rapid rebound.
Source material indicates China’s property sector outlook worsened sharply in early 2026, with steeper expected sales declines and continued price weakness amid a large overhang of unsold housing. Spillovers into shadow finance and local government financing vehicles suggest elevated systemic risk and continued headwinds for domestic demand.
Source material indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with S&P projecting sharper sales declines and continued price weakness amid oversupply and developer stress. The report highlights growing macro-financial linkages to household wealth, local government refinancing pressures, and confidence risks tied to reduced data transparency.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by policy tightening, affordability constraints, and developer deleveraging, with the largest damage concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than mortgages. The source expects a gradual price bottoming, a diminishing GDP drag after 2025, and a potential reallocation of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
Source reporting indicates China’s property downturn persisted into early 2026, with continued price declines, weak sales, and heightened restructuring focus among major developers. Policymakers and local governments appear to be shifting toward stabilisation tools—potentially including mortgage support and inventory absorption—to rebuild confidence and support consumption.
According to the source, NBS data show 2025 property sales value fell to 8.4 trillion yuan, with December 2025 price declines across the 70-city index extending into first-tier resale markets. The document suggests rising negative equity and weak foreclosure clearance rates may amplify banking and household balance-sheet stress, prolonging the sector’s adjustment.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn has primarily impaired highly leveraged developers and confidence, while mortgage credit quality at major banks remains relatively contained due to conservative underwriting and sizable down payments. The adjustment is increasingly structural—lower long-run housing demand is expected to weigh on GDP, reinforcing policy emphasis on technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is becoming a systemic constraint through household wealth effects, developer distress, and rising rollover-driven “zombie” credit. With local-government finance and smaller banks deeply intertwined with real estate, the adjustment risks prolonged stagnation rather than a rapid cyclical rebound.
The source argues China’s property downturn is a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024, with stress concentrated among highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or major banks. Policy easing and a broader pivot toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand aim to narrow the growth drag while potentially supporting a rotation from property into equities.
Source material indicates China’s real estate downturn is persisting into early 2026, with continued declines in prices, sales, and construction amid significant oversupply. Policy signals point to a shift from strict developer debt caps toward stabilization tools, but weak confidence and constrained credit transmission suggest a prolonged adjustment.
According to the source metadata, China’s economy is expected to rely primarily on exports for growth in 2025 while domestic demand remains weak. The outlook also points to a lower interest-rate environment and continued challenges in the real-estate sector, implying elevated exposure to external shocks and confidence constraints at home.
Source-reported indicators show continued declines in home prices and a large inventory overhang, with S&P projecting weaker 2026 sales and further price drops. Policy support has reduced near-term project stress but appears insufficient to restore demand, leaving ongoing risks for developers, banks, and local-government finance.
The source indicates China’s housing market remained in contraction into early 2026, with 70-city new-home prices down 3.1% y/y in January and S&P projecting a 10–14% fall in primary sales this year. Persistent oversupply, developer stress, and linkages to LGFVs and shadow credit continue to pose macro-financial risks and weigh on growth.
2025 indicators suggest China’s property sector is undergoing a prolonged structural contraction, with sales far below the 2021 peak and large estimated vacant inventory weighing on prices and demand. Spillovers into shadow lending and local-government-linked debt are emerging as key stability challenges, even as core banking risks appear contained by conservative underwriting and regulatory buffers.
GAM’s January 2026 assessment suggests China’s housing downturn is structurally reducing construction-led growth while remaining largely contained within leveraged developers rather than household mortgages. Policy support since 2022 aims to stabilise the sector and pivot growth toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand, with equities positioned as a potential beneficiary of shifting household asset preferences.
Reuters-cited NBS data show China’s new home prices fell again in January 2026, with declines broadening across most surveyed cities and year-on-year drops accelerating. Policy easing and selective state involvement may slow monthly declines, but oversupply—especially in lower-tier cities—and weak confidence continue to constrain recovery prospects.
Source reporting indicates China’s housing market remains under pressure into early 2026, with broad-based price declines, weak demand, and elevated inventories limiting the impact of policy easing. Spillovers to local government finance, banks, and shadow credit channels remain key macro risks, while increased data opacity complicates market assessment.
According to NBS data cited in the source, China’s housing market weakened further in December 2025, with year-on-year price declines across 70 major cities and sharper falls in the resale segment, including first-tier cities. The document also points to rising mortgage stress, low foreclosure clearance rates, and widespread developer losses as factors that may prolong balance-sheet pressure across the economy.
The source argues China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by affordability constraints and policy tightening, with the sharpest stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers and offshore credit. It assesses mortgage and banking risks as contained, while estimating a sizable near-term GDP drag that should diminish as policy pivots toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
Reuters-cited NBS data show China’s new home prices fell again in January 2026, with declines broadening across most surveyed cities and resale prices remaining under pressure. Policy easing and selective state involvement are slowing the pace of deterioration, but oversupply and fragile confidence continue to constrain a durable recovery.
Source data indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with renewed price declines, large inventories, and further expected sales contraction. Policy is shifting from broad market support toward more administratively managed supply, while spillovers to growth, household confidence, and local government finance remain significant.
Official January data cited by Reuters show China’s new home prices fell 0.4% month-on-month and 3.1% year-on-year, with 62 of 70 surveyed cities recording declines. Policy easing and selective state involvement have yet to deliver a broad recovery, while analysts highlight lower-tier inventory and ongoing developer funding strains as key constraints.
Source data indicates China’s housing market remained under pressure in early 2026, with broad-based price declines and S&P forecasting a sharper fall in primary sales. Policy easing has slowed the downturn but has not restored buyer confidence or resolved oversupply, sustaining macroeconomic headwinds.
According to GAM Investments, China’s property downturn is shifting from a cyclical correction into a structural downshift in demand, with developer stress and offshore credit losses but comparatively contained mortgage and banking risks. The drag on GDP is assessed as significant in 2024–2025 but expected to narrow, while weaker housing sentiment and low deposit rates may accelerate a reallocation of domestic savings toward equities.
Official data cited by Reuters show China’s new home prices fell 0.4% month-on-month in January and declined 3.1% year-on-year, with 62 of 70 surveyed cities posting drops. Despite policy easing and selective state-linked interventions, weak demand and heavy lower-tier inventories continue to pressure developers and constrain a consumption-led recovery.
Source data indicates China’s housing market remained under pressure in early 2026, with broad-based price declines and a downgraded sales outlook amid weak demand and elevated inventories. Policy easing continues, but confidence and developer funding constraints suggest a prolonged adjustment rather than a rapid rebound.
Source material indicates China’s property sector outlook worsened sharply in early 2026, with steeper expected sales declines and continued price weakness amid a large overhang of unsold housing. Spillovers into shadow finance and local government financing vehicles suggest elevated systemic risk and continued headwinds for domestic demand.
Source material indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with S&P projecting sharper sales declines and continued price weakness amid oversupply and developer stress. The report highlights growing macro-financial linkages to household wealth, local government refinancing pressures, and confidence risks tied to reduced data transparency.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by policy tightening, affordability constraints, and developer deleveraging, with the largest damage concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than mortgages. The source expects a gradual price bottoming, a diminishing GDP drag after 2025, and a potential reallocation of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
Source reporting indicates China’s property downturn persisted into early 2026, with continued price declines, weak sales, and heightened restructuring focus among major developers. Policymakers and local governments appear to be shifting toward stabilisation tools—potentially including mortgage support and inventory absorption—to rebuild confidence and support consumption.
According to the source, NBS data show 2025 property sales value fell to 8.4 trillion yuan, with December 2025 price declines across the 70-city index extending into first-tier resale markets. The document suggests rising negative equity and weak foreclosure clearance rates may amplify banking and household balance-sheet stress, prolonging the sector’s adjustment.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn has primarily impaired highly leveraged developers and confidence, while mortgage credit quality at major banks remains relatively contained due to conservative underwriting and sizable down payments. The adjustment is increasingly structural—lower long-run housing demand is expected to weigh on GDP, reinforcing policy emphasis on technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is becoming a systemic constraint through household wealth effects, developer distress, and rising rollover-driven “zombie” credit. With local-government finance and smaller banks deeply intertwined with real estate, the adjustment risks prolonged stagnation rather than a rapid cyclical rebound.
The source argues China’s property downturn is a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024, with stress concentrated among highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or major banks. Policy easing and a broader pivot toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand aim to narrow the growth drag while potentially supporting a rotation from property into equities.
Source material indicates China’s real estate downturn is persisting into early 2026, with continued declines in prices, sales, and construction amid significant oversupply. Policy signals point to a shift from strict developer debt caps toward stabilization tools, but weak confidence and constrained credit transmission suggest a prolonged adjustment.
According to the source metadata, China’s economy is expected to rely primarily on exports for growth in 2025 while domestic demand remains weak. The outlook also points to a lower interest-rate environment and continued challenges in the real-estate sector, implying elevated exposure to external shocks and confidence constraints at home.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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