China’s Weakest Housing Markets Flash Red in Cautionary Tale

  • Zone around Beijing features casualties of past property booms
  • ‘China’s property market in miniature,’ property analyst says
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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You only need to drive an hour out of Beijing to find an example of the Chinese property frenzy gone pear-shaped.

This is the zone with some of the country’s worst-performing housing markets, according to research from China Real Estate Information Corp.