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The source indicates China’s housing market remained in contraction into early 2026, with 70-city new-home prices down 3.1% y/y in January and S&P projecting a 10–14% fall in primary sales this year. Persistent oversupply, developer stress, and linkages to LGFVs and shadow credit continue to pose macro-financial risks and weigh on growth.
2025 indicators suggest China’s property sector is undergoing a prolonged structural contraction, with sales far below the 2021 peak and large estimated vacant inventory weighing on prices and demand. Spillovers into shadow lending and local-government-linked debt are emerging as key stability challenges, even as core banking risks appear contained by conservative underwriting and regulatory buffers.
GAM’s January 2026 assessment suggests China’s housing downturn is structurally reducing construction-led growth while remaining largely contained within leveraged developers rather than household mortgages. Policy support since 2022 aims to stabilise the sector and pivot growth toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand, with equities positioned as a potential beneficiary of shifting household asset preferences.
According to NBS data cited in the source, China’s housing market weakened further in December 2025, with year-on-year price declines across 70 major cities and sharper falls in the resale segment, including first-tier cities. The document also points to rising mortgage stress, low foreclosure clearance rates, and widespread developer losses as factors that may prolong balance-sheet pressure across the economy.
The source argues China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by affordability constraints and policy tightening, with the sharpest stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers and offshore credit. It assesses mortgage and banking risks as contained, while estimating a sizable near-term GDP drag that should diminish as policy pivots toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
Source data indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with renewed price declines, large inventories, and further expected sales contraction. Policy is shifting from broad market support toward more administratively managed supply, while spillovers to growth, household confidence, and local government finance remain significant.
According to GAM Investments, China’s property downturn is shifting from a cyclical correction into a structural downshift in demand, with developer stress and offshore credit losses but comparatively contained mortgage and banking risks. The drag on GDP is assessed as significant in 2024–2025 but expected to narrow, while weaker housing sentiment and low deposit rates may accelerate a reallocation of domestic savings toward equities.
Source material indicates China’s property sector outlook worsened sharply in early 2026, with steeper expected sales declines and continued price weakness amid a large overhang of unsold housing. Spillovers into shadow finance and local government financing vehicles suggest elevated systemic risk and continued headwinds for domestic demand.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by policy tightening, affordability constraints, and developer deleveraging, with the largest damage concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than mortgages. The source expects a gradual price bottoming, a diminishing GDP drag after 2025, and a potential reallocation of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
According to the source, NBS data show 2025 property sales value fell to 8.4 trillion yuan, with December 2025 price declines across the 70-city index extending into first-tier resale markets. The document suggests rising negative equity and weak foreclosure clearance rates may amplify banking and household balance-sheet stress, prolonging the sector’s adjustment.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn has primarily impaired highly leveraged developers and confidence, while mortgage credit quality at major banks remains relatively contained due to conservative underwriting and sizable down payments. The adjustment is increasingly structural—lower long-run housing demand is expected to weigh on GDP, reinforcing policy emphasis on technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is becoming a systemic constraint through household wealth effects, developer distress, and rising rollover-driven “zombie” credit. With local-government finance and smaller banks deeply intertwined with real estate, the adjustment risks prolonged stagnation rather than a rapid cyclical rebound.
The source argues China’s property downturn is a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024, with stress concentrated among highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or major banks. Policy easing and a broader pivot toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand aim to narrow the growth drag while potentially supporting a rotation from property into equities.
Source material indicates China’s real estate slump persisted through 2025 and into early 2026, with falling prices, weak sales, and ongoing developer stress despite targeted policy support. Structural oversupply, constrained credit transmission, and local-government fiscal pressures are highlighted as key barriers to stabilization.
The source portrays China’s housing downturn as a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024–2025, with stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or bank solvency. Policy support and a broader pivot toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand may gradually narrow the growth drag while encouraging a shift in household assets toward equities.
The source indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with weakening sales, further price declines, and structural oversupply weighing on stabilization prospects. Policy tools such as project “whitelists” and inventory-to-affordable-housing programs face constrained uptake amid bank risk concerns and local fiscal limits, raising spillover risks to consumption and credit conditions.
Source text indicates China’s real estate slump intensified in early 2026, with sharp sales declines among major developers and particularly severe weakness among offshore US-dollar bond issuers. Despite broad easing measures and financing programs, limited credit transmission and large inventory overhangs suggest a prolonged, consolidation-driven adjustment.
Source reporting suggests China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with modest price stabilization in major cities but continued sales weakness and significant lower-tier inventory overhang. Policy is shifting from strict deleveraging toward managed stabilization, yet developer distress, cautious bank lending, and local government fiscal constraints remain key headwinds.
A reported end to China’s ‘three red lines’ debt reporting rules has sparked a sharp rally in developer stocks, signaling a potential shift in regulatory posture. The source suggests structural headwinds—weak demand, large inventories, and risk-averse bank lending—will continue to constrain a rapid sector recovery.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is increasingly constraining consumption, confidence, and credit allocation, complicating Beijing’s domestic-demand ambitions. Rising “zombie” lending tied to developers and LGFVs, combined with opacity around smaller-bank exposures, elevates the risk of prolonged stagnation rather than a quick cyclical recovery.
According to the source, NBS data released on 19 Jan. 2026 show that housing prices across 70 major cities continued to fall in December 2025, with sharper declines in the secondary market including first-tier cities. The document also suggests rising negative equity pressures, weak foreclosure sale-through rates, and continued developer losses, indicating a prolonged adjustment cycle.
Source material indicates Beijing has made property-sector stabilization the top priority for 2026, emphasizing supply control, inventory reduction, and localized policy execution. Despite targeted tools such as PBOC lending facilities and the 2024 whitelist mechanism, weak economics, fiscal constraints, and confidence challenges suggest a difficult path to recovery.
Source data indicates China’s real estate downturn intensified in 2025, with new-home sales, investment, starts, and completions falling sharply while inventories rose. Targeted interventions have had limited uptake amid bank risk concerns and local fiscal strain, and forecasts suggest continued contraction into 2026.
According to the source, China’s multi-year property slump is eroding household wealth, weakening domestic demand, and pushing financial risks from visible developer defaults toward less transparent rollover and shadow-finance channels. Research cited in the document indicates a sharp rise in zombie lending in 2024, raising the prospect of prolonged stagnation if loss recognition and restructuring remain limited.
The source argues China’s housing downturn has become a structural adjustment that is reducing GDP growth and weakening household sentiment, while policy support and conservative mortgage underwriting help contain systemic financial risk. With new housing demand projected to remain far below 2021 levels, the report suggests a prolonged bottoming process and a gradual shift of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
The source indicates China’s housing market remained in contraction into early 2026, with 70-city new-home prices down 3.1% y/y in January and S&P projecting a 10–14% fall in primary sales this year. Persistent oversupply, developer stress, and linkages to LGFVs and shadow credit continue to pose macro-financial risks and weigh on growth.
2025 indicators suggest China’s property sector is undergoing a prolonged structural contraction, with sales far below the 2021 peak and large estimated vacant inventory weighing on prices and demand. Spillovers into shadow lending and local-government-linked debt are emerging as key stability challenges, even as core banking risks appear contained by conservative underwriting and regulatory buffers.
GAM’s January 2026 assessment suggests China’s housing downturn is structurally reducing construction-led growth while remaining largely contained within leveraged developers rather than household mortgages. Policy support since 2022 aims to stabilise the sector and pivot growth toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand, with equities positioned as a potential beneficiary of shifting household asset preferences.
According to NBS data cited in the source, China’s housing market weakened further in December 2025, with year-on-year price declines across 70 major cities and sharper falls in the resale segment, including first-tier cities. The document also points to rising mortgage stress, low foreclosure clearance rates, and widespread developer losses as factors that may prolong balance-sheet pressure across the economy.
The source argues China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by affordability constraints and policy tightening, with the sharpest stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers and offshore credit. It assesses mortgage and banking risks as contained, while estimating a sizable near-term GDP drag that should diminish as policy pivots toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
Source data indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with renewed price declines, large inventories, and further expected sales contraction. Policy is shifting from broad market support toward more administratively managed supply, while spillovers to growth, household confidence, and local government finance remain significant.
According to GAM Investments, China’s property downturn is shifting from a cyclical correction into a structural downshift in demand, with developer stress and offshore credit losses but comparatively contained mortgage and banking risks. The drag on GDP is assessed as significant in 2024–2025 but expected to narrow, while weaker housing sentiment and low deposit rates may accelerate a reallocation of domestic savings toward equities.
Source material indicates China’s property sector outlook worsened sharply in early 2026, with steeper expected sales declines and continued price weakness amid a large overhang of unsold housing. Spillovers into shadow finance and local government financing vehicles suggest elevated systemic risk and continued headwinds for domestic demand.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn is a structural adjustment driven by policy tightening, affordability constraints, and developer deleveraging, with the largest damage concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than mortgages. The source expects a gradual price bottoming, a diminishing GDP drag after 2025, and a potential reallocation of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
According to the source, NBS data show 2025 property sales value fell to 8.4 trillion yuan, with December 2025 price declines across the 70-city index extending into first-tier resale markets. The document suggests rising negative equity and weak foreclosure clearance rates may amplify banking and household balance-sheet stress, prolonging the sector’s adjustment.
According to GAM Investments, China’s housing downturn has primarily impaired highly leveraged developers and confidence, while mortgage credit quality at major banks remains relatively contained due to conservative underwriting and sizable down payments. The adjustment is increasingly structural—lower long-run housing demand is expected to weigh on GDP, reinforcing policy emphasis on technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is becoming a systemic constraint through household wealth effects, developer distress, and rising rollover-driven “zombie” credit. With local-government finance and smaller banks deeply intertwined with real estate, the adjustment risks prolonged stagnation rather than a rapid cyclical rebound.
The source argues China’s property downturn is a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024, with stress concentrated among highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or major banks. Policy easing and a broader pivot toward technology, advanced manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand aim to narrow the growth drag while potentially supporting a rotation from property into equities.
Source material indicates China’s real estate slump persisted through 2025 and into early 2026, with falling prices, weak sales, and ongoing developer stress despite targeted policy support. Structural oversupply, constrained credit transmission, and local-government fiscal pressures are highlighted as key barriers to stabilization.
The source portrays China’s housing downturn as a structural adjustment that has materially weighed on GDP since 2024–2025, with stress concentrated in highly leveraged developers rather than household mortgages or bank solvency. Policy support and a broader pivot toward technology, high-end manufacturing, green transition, and domestic demand may gradually narrow the growth drag while encouraging a shift in household assets toward equities.
The source indicates China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with weakening sales, further price declines, and structural oversupply weighing on stabilization prospects. Policy tools such as project “whitelists” and inventory-to-affordable-housing programs face constrained uptake amid bank risk concerns and local fiscal limits, raising spillover risks to consumption and credit conditions.
Source text indicates China’s real estate slump intensified in early 2026, with sharp sales declines among major developers and particularly severe weakness among offshore US-dollar bond issuers. Despite broad easing measures and financing programs, limited credit transmission and large inventory overhangs suggest a prolonged, consolidation-driven adjustment.
Source reporting suggests China’s real estate slump persists into early 2026, with modest price stabilization in major cities but continued sales weakness and significant lower-tier inventory overhang. Policy is shifting from strict deleveraging toward managed stabilization, yet developer distress, cautious bank lending, and local government fiscal constraints remain key headwinds.
A reported end to China’s ‘three red lines’ debt reporting rules has sparked a sharp rally in developer stocks, signaling a potential shift in regulatory posture. The source suggests structural headwinds—weak demand, large inventories, and risk-averse bank lending—will continue to constrain a rapid sector recovery.
The source argues China’s multi-year property slump is increasingly constraining consumption, confidence, and credit allocation, complicating Beijing’s domestic-demand ambitions. Rising “zombie” lending tied to developers and LGFVs, combined with opacity around smaller-bank exposures, elevates the risk of prolonged stagnation rather than a quick cyclical recovery.
According to the source, NBS data released on 19 Jan. 2026 show that housing prices across 70 major cities continued to fall in December 2025, with sharper declines in the secondary market including first-tier cities. The document also suggests rising negative equity pressures, weak foreclosure sale-through rates, and continued developer losses, indicating a prolonged adjustment cycle.
Source material indicates Beijing has made property-sector stabilization the top priority for 2026, emphasizing supply control, inventory reduction, and localized policy execution. Despite targeted tools such as PBOC lending facilities and the 2024 whitelist mechanism, weak economics, fiscal constraints, and confidence challenges suggest a difficult path to recovery.
Source data indicates China’s real estate downturn intensified in 2025, with new-home sales, investment, starts, and completions falling sharply while inventories rose. Targeted interventions have had limited uptake amid bank risk concerns and local fiscal strain, and forecasts suggest continued contraction into 2026.
According to the source, China’s multi-year property slump is eroding household wealth, weakening domestic demand, and pushing financial risks from visible developer defaults toward less transparent rollover and shadow-finance channels. Research cited in the document indicates a sharp rise in zombie lending in 2024, raising the prospect of prolonged stagnation if loss recognition and restructuring remain limited.
The source argues China’s housing downturn has become a structural adjustment that is reducing GDP growth and weakening household sentiment, while policy support and conservative mortgage underwriting help contain systemic financial risk. With new housing demand projected to remain far below 2021 levels, the report suggests a prolonged bottoming process and a gradual shift of domestic capital toward equities as property loses appeal.
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