{"id":262397,"date":"2025-11-14T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262397\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:40:19","slug":"icymi-china-home-prices-steepest-fall-in-a-year-as-industrial-investment-data-weaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262397\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: China home prices steepest fall in a year as industrial, investment data weaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"573\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">China\u2019s October data underscored intensifying domestic strains, with <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/china-october-new-house-prices-22-yy-prior-22-also-20251114\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new home prices sliding<\/a> 0.45% month-on-month, the sharpest fall in a year, as the country\u2019s property downturn deepens. <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/china-say-stabilisation-taking-hold-despite-weak-investment-and-industrial-slowdown-in-oct-20251114\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Industrial production<\/a> rose 4.9% year-on-year, missing expectations and slowing from September, while retail sales grew a softer 2.9%. Fixed-asset investment fell 1.7% in the year to date, a much weaker outcome than economists had forecast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/china-say-stabilisation-taking-hold-despite-weak-investment-and-industrial-slowdown-in-oct-20251114\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson<\/a> Fu Linghui said the economy is operating \u201crelatively smoothly\u201d and highlighted growth in emerging industries, but acknowledged mounting domestic and external headwinds that are forcing a structural shift. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"575\" data-end=\"1199\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Economists said the housing market remains the biggest drag, pointing to weak investment, excess supply in the second-hand market and subdued consumer sentiment. Analysts, including Yuhan Zhang of the Conference Board, expect policymakers to continue funnelling capital into infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and industrial upgrading as Beijing tries to stabilise growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s October data underscored intensifying domestic strains, with new home prices sliding 0.45% month-on-month, the sharpest fall in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,108389,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-262397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-home-prices-drop-sharply","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}