China’s Developers Surge After Interest Rate Cut

Bloomberg news staff Bonnie Cao reports on the central government interest rate cut and the immediate effects on the real estate market:

“All financial institutions must continue to strictly implement a differentiated housing credit policy to continue curbing property buying for spec

ulation and investment purposes,” the central bank said in its interest-rate statement yesterday.

Jinsong Du, a Hong Kong-based property panalyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, in a note to clients yesterday wrote investors or speculators will increasingly re-enter the housing market, pushing up housing prices “meaningfully in the next few months.”

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“The momentum of the property market had already picked up as developers reported good June sales,” said Nicole Wong, a Hong Kong-based property analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. “The second round of interest rates cut will just drive the momentum better and better.”

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