{"id":489336,"date":"2010-03-30T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/beijing-is-helpless-as-the-housing-bubble-spreads-to-rural-china-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:10:57","slug":"helpless-beijing-watches-the-housing-bubble-spreads-to-rural-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489336","title":{"rendered":"Helpless Beijing Watches The Housing Bubble Spreads To Rural China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Real estate developers have bought up cheap land in rural China, despite laws against land hoarding, according to Caing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But getting around the laws is laughably easy:<\/p>\n

Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) Chief Inspector Xu Shaoshi recently warned about the importance of overseeing real estate companies and real estate development money that’s started flowing into second- and third-tier cities.<\/p>\n

Yet some developers learned how to beat MLR’s supervision system, which relies on satellite images to enforce rules against hoarding. Developers who sit on vacant land can use MLR insiders to tip them to upcoming fly-overs, then hire temporary laborers to pretend to build on the land when a satellite camera passes overhead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“MLR’s satellite can only scan one area at a time,” said a lawyer familiar with the hoarding issue. Developers can find out “when they want to scan a city’s land ahead of time. They send out a few vehicles and pretend to dig. Once the satellites have moved on, the vehicles are called back.”<\/p>\n

It’s not a bad sign that prices are forcing some developers out of major cities, as the ‘bubble’ will deflate as it expands.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Beijing’s incompetence as a regulator is a very bad sign. This is their biggest failure since a purported crackdown on inflation was followed by a record-high land auction in the capital city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also<\/strong>: The Complete 60-Second Guide To The Chinese Real Estate Market<\/a><\/p>\n

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