{"id":52842,"date":"2017-04-25T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bets-on-homelink-chinas-biggest-property-agent-are-risky-as-curbs-hit-home-sales\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:28:51","slug":"bets-on-homelink-chinas-biggest-property-agent-are-risky-as-curbs-hit-home-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bets-on-homelink-chinas-biggest-property-agent-are-risky-as-curbs-hit-home-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Bets on Homelink, China\u2019s biggest property agent, are risky as curbs hit home sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhile investors fall over themselves to plough money into estate agency Homelink Group, the poster child of China\u2019s secondary home market is seeing its business plunge as local governments tighten their restrictions on property sales.<br \/>\nChina Vanke pays 3b yuan for stake in secondary home agent Homelink<br \/>\nExperts say the financial capital being thrown at Homelink, the nation\u2019s biggest pre-owned home agent, is a bet on its long-term prospects, so the company\u2019s short-term&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/property\/hong-kong-china\/article\/2090459\/bets-homelink-chinas-biggest-property-agent-are-risky-curbs\" target=\"_blank\">Bets on Homelink, China\u2019s biggest property agent, are risky as curbs hit home sales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; While investors fall over themselves to plough money into estate agency Homelink Group, the poster&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-dKi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52365,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/china-vanke-pays-3b-yuan-for-stake-in-secondary-home-agent-homelink\/","url_meta":{"origin":52842,"position":0},"title":"China Vanke pays 3b yuan for stake in secondary home agent Homelink","date":"April 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r China Vanke, the country\u2019s second-largest developer, will pay 3 billion yuan (US$435.6 million) for a minority stake in privately held Homelink Group, the nation\u2019s largest secondary home agent, underscoring the vast potential value of China\u2019s existing home market. 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