Via MNI is this from the National Business Daily:

  • A full-scale housing collapse in Handan, a third-tier city in Hebei province
  • Developers lose access to funding
  • Several developers have absconded while many projects have stopped mid-construction
  • Funds were largely sourced from the private lending market because of tightening bank credit
  • The report cited a local property researcher as saying that it will take nearly 10 years to digest the housing inventories
  • Eleven plots of land, 16 development projects, the equity of seven companies and a steel mine have been frozen so far

I’m sure there will be more to come on this