China Property Market Shifts Focus to Existing Housing Stock
What happened
China's property market has entered a new phase centered on existing housing stock. In the first eight months of 2026, second-hand homes accounted for 52% of housing transactions, a share that has risen from 27% in 2020 to 46% in 2025, according to Zhang Xuetao, director general of the Department of Real Estate Market Supervision of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Second-hand home transactions reached 550 million square meters, a 10.6% increase year on year, while new commercial housing sales fell 12.1% during the same period.
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Why it matters
The increased reliance on second-hand homes suggests that stronger sales in this segment are partially offsetting weakness in new-home transactions, indicating a stabilization trend in the property market. Inventories of unsold new commercial housing continued to fall, with the floor area declining 1.1% year on year at the end of August.
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