WSJ的这篇文章说，中国可能会放开房价下跌的限制。
这几乎是个潘多拉魔盒。我希望在房价真的开始暴跌之前，金融管理部门可以免除房贷人的无限责任。也就是说房贷违约后收回房产就不用继续还款了。
Recently, Beijing has sent signals indicating it is okay with cities easing or abandoning the price floors, in tandem with other steps the central government has taken to support the market, such as lowering interest rates.
China Real Estate Business Weekly, the flagship newspaper of China’s Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ministry, published an editorial on Aug. 20 urging local policy makers to eliminate price floors.
“Developers should be allowed to carry out self-rescue through price reduction promotions in order to raise funds as soon as possible,” the article said. Other articles in state media have made similar cases.
Some industry analysts have pushed back, arguing in other media that it is too dangerous to remove the floors.
Guangzhou, a manufacturing hub in southern China with a population of 15 million, this month allowed developers to start selling apartments freely without seeking approval on sale prices, according to Chinese media reports. It also lowered the city’s price floor late last year.
Source: China Has Second Thoughts About Controlling Prices in Its Multi Trillion-Dollar Housing Market – WSJ
