China: September new home price data preview – ING

By FXStreet FXStreet (Delhi) – Prakash Sakpal, Economist at ING, suggests that the 70-cities new home price indexes for September are due tomorrow at 9:30am local time and the trend has been rising number of cities reporting increasing sequential new home prices (first figure), which we think persisted.

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“Until August the improving home price trend and rising home sales occurred against a backdrop of falling housing starts. September is a turnaround month. A 16.7% YoY bounce in housing starts was the first growth in a year (second figure) and it narrowed the year-to-date contraction in starts to -13.5% from -17.9% in August.”

“Growth in home sales, residential floor space sold, slowed to 8.8% from 15.6% in August but the 8.2% YTD growth was up from 8% in August. The first increase in housing starts in a year sustains hope that the historical – since 2010 – relation between sales and starts is intact and the latter will begin become a growth driver in 2016.”

“The PBOC injected CNY 105.5 billion ($16.6bn) into the banking system yesterday via the medium-term lending facility. The PBOC open market operations, including MLF, and RRR are its tools to sterilize the domestic liquidity implications of swings in capital …read more

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