China Property Recovery Is Short-Lived as Industry Contracts
- Real estate sector reverses after expanding in first quarter
- Consumer industries grow faster on low base of comparison
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China’s property industry contracted again in the second quarter after a short-lived expansion in the previous three months, adding to the economy’s challenges.
The real estate sector declined 1.2% in the April-June period from a year ago, according to a breakdown of the gross domestic product data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday. The drop reverses the first expansion in the sector since 2021 recorded in the first quarter.