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      Rising property prices ring alarm bells

      2013-08-01 08:36 Xinhua Web Editor: qindexing
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      While China's top leadership has vowed to maintain steady growth in the second half of 2013, rising property prices amid a continuous economic slowdown are ringing alarm bells for the reform of the world's second-largest economy.

      China's economy will maintain steady growth for the rest of this year amid "extremely complicated domestic and international conditions," according to a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Tuesday.

      The country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 7.6 percent in January-June of 2013, the weakest first-half performance in three years, according to the latest official data.

      In contrast to the slower growth, however, the prices of both new and existing homes continued to rise in most Chinese cities in June. Of a 70-city statistical pool, 63 Chinese cities saw month-on-month home price rises, official data showed.

      Meanwhile, a recent quarterly survey of 350 real estate managers in 31 of China's big cities revealed that more than half of developers said they will increase supplies in the third quarter and raise prices.

      The survey results were supported by adequate funding in the real estate sector. Data from the central bank showed that the balance of yuan-denominated lending to property developers stood at 13.56 trillion yuan (2.2 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of June, up 32 percent from a year earlier.

      Moreover, local governments' income from land sales soared 46.3 percent in the first half of 2013, compared to a 27.5-percent decline in the same period of last year, which indicated that land sales had been the major source of income for local governments.

      "The real estate sector runs counter to other industries and people's stalled incomes," said Yin Zhongli, a finance researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

      The alluring profit in the property market has worsened the credit shortage in the real economy. More than 70 percent of enterprises in Wenzhou, a city known as the cradle of China's private businesses, engage in property investment, figures from the Wenzhou City Economic and Information Commission showed.

      High funding costs, rising labor prices and exchange rates have squeezed room for traditional industries like garments and glasses.

      "Many companies are working to pay debts and they will even lose the chance to work at all if they fail to survive the credit crunch," said Zheng Chen'ai, head of Wenzhou's garment chamber of commerce.

      The city's situation is a microcosm of the economy as a whole. Several leading economic indicators dipped in the first half. The preliminary purchasing managers' index for China dropped to 47.7 in July, down from a final 48.2 in June and the lowest in 11 months, an HSBC report showed. Meanwhile, exports took a surprising tumble in June, dropping 3.1 percent year on year, customs data indicated.

      In fact, more than 70 percent of China's social financing went into the property sector and local government financing vehicles in the first five months, and that pushed up financing costs, according to Tang Jianwei, a senior analyst on macroeconomics at the Bank of Communications.

      Total social financing surged 50.2 percent to 9.11 trillion yuan during the first five months, prompting concerns about excessive money supply and financial risks.

      "The real interest rates are over 9 percent, far above the GDP growth, and that's why the fairly loose liquidity failed to boost economic growth," said Tang.

      Tang was echoed by Yin Zhongli. "Pent-up demand is not to blame for rising prices; the true cause is the loose liquidity," said the CASS economist.

      Soaring prices have meant profits for property developers. Out of 35 such firms to have issued performance reports for the first half, 21 registered climbing year-on-year profits, according to data from the country's two bourses.

      China Vanke and Poly Real Estate Group Co., Ltd., the country's two largest property developers by market value, both registered profit growth of over 30 percent in the January-June period.

      Meanwhile, Chinese cities have seen prices on land bids surge amid the waning effects of curbing measures. "Competition for land has become hot since May," a report from the China Land Surveying and Planning Institute said.

      Analysts say local governments are also encouraging land sales, as a slowdown in fiscal revenues and lingering concerns of credit tightening may squeeze the funding pipelines for local government financing vehicles.

      "The property market runs on expectations, so we must pay attention to new record highs in land sales," warned Zhu Zhongyi, vice president of the China Real Estate Industry Association.

      At Tuesday's meeting, central authorities pledged to increase support for the real economy and push human-centered urbanization, while promoting the stable and healthy development of the real estate sector.

      "Above all, local governments should find a way to guide private capital to more monopolized industries," urged Li Tiegang, a professor at Shandong University.

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