China property price rally likely to stall in 2018: poll
Small city boom is expected to wane while array of property curbs continue to constrain market
Beijing
CHINA'S home price growth is likely to stall in 2018 as a surprise boom in smaller cities is expected to lose steam while measures to tighten credit and other property curbs continue to constrain the market, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.
China has imposed an array of measures to crack down on property speculation since early 2016, but prices in October still crept up 5.4 per cent from a year earlier, largely driven by a buying frenzy that has spread from the big metropolises to the country's less-regulated smaller centres.
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