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Evergrande is ‘just the beginning’: More firms must exit China’s property sector - superadmin - 10-21-2021

Evergrande is ‘just the beginning’: Professor says more firms must exit China’s property sector
  • China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said Li Gan, economics professor at Texas A&M University.
  • “We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” said Gan.
  • Gan estimated that about 20% of China’s housing stock is left vacant, yet developers continue to build millions of new units each year.


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China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said a top expert on the Chinese housing market.
“We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” Li Gan, an economics professor at Texas A&M University, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Wednesday.

Gan estimated that about 20% of China’s housing stock is vacant as buyers rack up second and third properties as investments. Even then, developers continue to build millions of new units each year, he said.

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