“The horrors of rich people not getting bailed out”

  • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    China’s speculative real estate market has been insane for decades now. If you’ve ever visited, you can literally see it. A lot of the projects lose funding midway through and just go half constructed and abandoned for years. Large scale malls that were built in the last 5 - 10 years are just completely empty.

    Really hoping this is an opportunity for crackdown and the government takes it.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      I will say that there is a lot of cheap real estate. I can buy a flat that is five times the size of my shoebox sized flat in the UK for a third of the price.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        One of the reasons I would love to move there. I can’t imagine ever being able to afford my own home here, but over there I actually could, and even if I couldn’t, the rent would be far cheaper.