Property investment in China

Based on a recent post asking about investing in a 'communist' current, how does one go about buying property in China, if possible?

I'm not sure I get your drift

while china might be a better prospect then vietnam, still a bad prospect I believe. The market there in shanghai for example became very mature very quickly with prices rising too fast . Because of the massive amount of property being built its often being bought up by single investors and sold on for a higher price artificially inflating to some degree. The market is a lot more saturated now
The thing about china is that the rich capitalists there find it extremely hard to get their money out of the country, because anything transferred out is flagged for tax. hence much of the chinese money has gone and is going into their own real estate. So even with the market getting saturated and mature buildings are still going up because there is so much money there at the moment

Aside from that money a lot of foreign investment has come in

The chinese government are actually trying to stem the price rises and stop all the foreign investment coming into real estate development and purchase there - for example by raising capital gains tax to 20%

I think the boat might have sailed there for property investment, and if there is still some good purchases I see it as high risk due to the governments attitiude toward foreign real estate investment at the moment

Ancutza said:

I'm not sure I get your drift

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My question was more concerned with ownership structure and rules governing foreign investment in Chinese property, rather than market prospects.

Hi there,

I was extremely interested in Chinese property a few years back, and dealt with a company called Shanghai Vision. They are a decent outfit i think, have offices in London and can be found on the web. They will let you know all you wish to find out.

interesting views on current market

As a result of increased speculation in the property market by overseas investors the Chinese govt changed the rules last year on who could buy residential property in China - has to be a resident of China for at least one year and at that can only buy one property. There are, I beleive, some ways for the inventive investor to get around this but it pretty much puts the small-scale speculator out of the picture. If

As a result of increased speculation in the property market by overseas investors the Chinese govt changed the rules last year on who could buy residential property in China - has to be a resident of China for at least one year and at that can only buy one property. There are, I beleive, some ways for the inventive investor to get around this but it pretty much puts the small-scale speculator out of the picture. If you're large scale the some value to be had in second, third tier cities rather than in the more obvious hotspots.