Assets Without Buyers Foreshadow More Pain for Chinese Builders
- Policy makers see M&A as major step to rescue ailing builders
- Deal flow in the first quarter slumped to lowest in two years
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When a bellwether Chinese property developer reportedly sought buyers for $12 billion of assets to repay debt this year, the move sparked hopes of a liquidity boost for the nation’s embattled real estate firms.
But since January, only about three of 34 assets listed by Shimao Group Holdings Ltd. -- one of the biggest issuers of dollar bonds in the sector -- have been sold, according to exchange filings.