Property News · February 9, 2022

Investors shun Chinese developers as bond sales slump 70 per cent with market frozen for many junk-rated borrowers amid defaults


Investors seem to have lost their appetite for bonds issued by Chinese developers while rising defaults by an increasing number of cash-strapped companies have pushed the cost of funding for the sector to more than a decade high.Chinese real estate companies issued 48.1 billion yuan (US$7.6 billion) worth of bonds in January in both local and foreign currencies, according to Beike Research Institute (BRI), a research arm of KE Holdings, China’s biggest online property broker. That is a 70 per…

Source : South China Morning Post
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