China Oct home prices fall y-o-y in 67 of 70 cities polled
[BEIJING] Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities fell 2.6 per cent in October from a year earlier, the second consecutive month showing an annual fall, Reuters calculated from official data published on Tuesday.
The data also showed that home prices in China fell in 67 of the 70 cities surveyed in October.
Compared with the previous month, home prices were down 0.8 per cent in October, a sixth consecutive monthly drop following September's fall of 1.0 per cent, the calculations showed.
Economists believe the cooling housing market poses the biggest risk to the world's second-largest economy, even as Beijing tries to stimulate overall growth.
The National Bureau of Statistics said new home prices in Beijing were down 1.3 per cent higher in October compared with a year earlier, versus September's increase of 0.4 per cent. They dropped 1.1 per cent from September.
Shanghai's home prices were down 2.0 per cent in October from a year ago, versus a 0.8 per cent fall in September. They fell 0.6 per cent from September, the sixth month-on-month fall in a row.
REUTERS
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