Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Beijing, Shanghai Property Prices Are Too High, Cheung Kong, Far East Say

(Bloomberg) -- Property prices in Shanghai, Beijing
and Guangzhou are too high and developers should focus on the
smaller Chinese cities as consumers there grow richer, real
estate executives said.

``First-tier cities are getting too expensive,'' Justin Chiu,
executive director at Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd., Hong Kong's
biggest developer, said in an interview in Singapore today.
``Anywhere in the world people who support the property market
are from the middle class, but in these first-tier cities, prices
are getting too high for middle class people to absorb.''


Read more at Bloomberg Emerging Markets News

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