With a stagnant housing market, Beijing has increased the ceiling of housing public accumulation fund loans from 800,000 yuan (130,000 U.S. dollars) to 1.2 million yuan, local authorities announced Wednesday.
Chinese authorities are likely to relax the sales tax on existing homes, the Beijing-based China Securities Journal reported on Monday in a front-page story.
A Singapore-based technology start-up is launching a free private cloud software with enhanced security features, the firm said on Saturday.
China's four big state-owned banks seem set to require lower down payments from second-time home buyers amid a sluggish property market.
Good news for the millions of Chinese housewives hooked on online shopping: the more they spend online, the greater discount they will get on a home purchase under a new scheme.
The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou on Monday became the latest region to ease home purchase restrictions.
Beijing on Monday made nearly 1,880 affordable commercial apartments available to buyers, rekindling average income-earners' hopes of having a house of their own.
Sluggish home sales, increasing market supply and declining property prices epitomize China's cooling real estate market. And there are worries that the decline may continue as banks become reluctant on mortgage lending.
A chief of China's central bank has urged the country's commercial banks to be quicker in approving and issuing loans to "eligible" home buyers, mainly first-time home buyers.
The Chinese central government has announced a timetable to push forward the national unified real estate registration system as the founding work to better protect ownership and regulate the home market.
A headline-making debt woe afflicting a small Chinese property developer has highlighted an ongoing cash-flow headache in the sector. Industry analysts said they expected some smaller companies to default and home prices to decline in third- and fourth-tier cities.
Home price in major Chinese cities grew at a slower pace in February, with fewer cities seeing month-on-month price rises, official data showed on Tuesday.
Around 40 families showed up at an unusual auction in east China's Shandong Province, to bid for the services of eight nannies.
An eastern Chinese city has offered free services to escort the children of migrant workers home as the world's largest annual human migration began ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Hong Kong media mogul and philanthropist Run Run Shaw, aged 107, passed away at home on Tuesday morning, announced Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) of Hong Kong.
Australian housing market continued its strong growth in last December, making 2013 the biggest calendar year rise in four years, according the latest figures from RP Data.
After viewing flats for three months, Jason, the 27-year-old groom-to-be, has not yet made up mind whether to buy one as his marriage home, on speculation that the housing prices might fall next year.
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