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To Cool Real Estate Market, Shanghai Will Verify House Prices

All secondhand home listings now need government approval.

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Hangzhou Housing Community Adds Pay-to-Use Elevators

The scheme is aimed at making elevator installation affordable for neighborhoods with elderly reside......

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China Finds a Culprit for Runaway House Prices: Divorcing Couples

As Chinese cities try to cool red-hot property markets, many are targeting an unusual driver of dema......

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Nanjing Wins Plaudits for Protecting Danke Renters, Immediately Backtracks

City authorities say they want to keep their plans for coping with fallout from the rental housing g......

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Real Estate Firms Secretly Collecting Client Data Via Facial Recognition

Experts say it’s illegal for China’s housing agencies to gather biometric information without consen......

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Danke Dismisses Bankruptcy Rumors, but Tenants Aren’t Buying It

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Hangzhou Bans Mandatory Facial Recognition in Residential Communities

The new provision also forbids community managers from selling residents’ information to third parti......

2020-10-29 10:33:14

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Migrant Workers’ Rights to Inherit the Family Farm Are Safe, Government Says

Legal clarification reaffirms that people who leave home to work in cities can resume control of the......

2020-10-23 05:20:46

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Rental Platform Ziroom Apologizes for Tenants’ Tainted Water

After a maintenance mistake during renovation, four residents of a Beijing apartment consumed treate......

2020-09-04 10:17:43

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Tianjin Cracks Down on Condos for the Dead

Resembling an ordinary apartment complex, Jing’an Cemetery had been operating as a popular but illeg......

2020-09-03 12:13:29

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29 Dead in Building Collapse as Birthday Celebration Goes Awry

Linfen residents had built the banquet hall out of cheaper, more lightweight construction materials,......

2020-08-31 03:54:46

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No Man Is an Island, but You Can Buy One in Liaoning

Authorities say the land can be used for tourism, entertainment, or agricultural purposes.

2020-08-25 13:20:20

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Chinese Company Apologizes for Asking Workers to Commit for Life

Beverage brand Coconut Palm wanted potential hires to agree to work for the company for the rest of ......

2020-08-21 08:55:39

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Rental Housing Company Denies Misusing $87 Million in State Funds

Chinese firm Danke Apartment had secured multimillion-dollar investment from the Kunshan municipal g......

2020-08-19 10:00:32

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Shenzhen Proposes Law to Accelerate Redevelopment Projects

The city’s new urban development legislation, if passed, would allow for housing projects to be relo......

2020-07-23 11:09:54

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To Halt COVID-19, Protect Renters

Renters continue to lack the same urban rights and protections as homeowners. That divide has never ......

2020-04-07 11:29:02

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COVID-19 and China’s Forbidden ‘Cities Within Cities’

As the novel coronavirus spread, the country’s closed-off residential neighborhoods shut their gates.

2020-03-13 08:51:51

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Zhejiang Family Marries, Divorces 23 Times To Scam Government

With 11 members now accused of fraud, the family claims ignorance of any wrongdoing.

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Real Estate Developer Sues Over Claims of Bad Feng Shui

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In Chongqing, Skyline-Defining Towers Find Opposition

Why a sparkly new development has given pause to a city hurtling upward and outward.

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