China Property: Chinese Millennials Ownership Higher than Americans

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China Property: Prices are Rising but So is Home Ownership

While the American dream is coming to an end at least as far as homeownership is concerned. the Chinese dream is just starting. An HSBC survey found out that 70% of Chinese Millennials already own a home and that 91% also plan to buy a house in the next five years.

A whopping 70% of Chinese Millennials already own their own homes, despite the fact that China has seven of the top 10 most expensive cities in the world for residential real estate.

In contrast, only 35% of millennials in the US and 31% of those in the UK already own their own apartment or house.

China Property; Owning a house is as important as having a good job

For young men in China, at least in terms of steps toward an even greater life goal: getting married. The One-Child Policy, enforced from 1979 to 2015, created a skewed society. By 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women on the marriage market, so competition to find a wife is fierce. Many parents will chip in to help with the house costs in order to make their sons more attractive to potential brides.

“It is the custom that husbands will provide a home,” Dr Jieyu Liu, deputy director of the SOAS China Institute, told the BBC. “As young people’s wages are too low, the husband’s family is expected to take on the responsibility to purchase the property in their son’s name, or pay the deposit.” Assisting with a home purchase can also be a savvy investment for parents in the long run, many of whom might move in with their kids in old age. Quartz.com

This milestone serves as yet another confirmation that China is set to lead the way going forward. Homeownership is a very revealing long-term indicator of strong growth.

China Property Ownership Facts

Chinese citizens devote as much as 74 per cent of their savings toward housing, compared with 35 per cent in the US, according to research

“A friend of mine in the United States told me about their dream – one home, one car,” Meng recalled in an interview with the South China Morning Post. “I believed that owning a car was out of reach at the time in China. But China could have the same homeownership dream.”

That was quite an aspiration for the time. The wounds of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) were still raw, the communist nation’s dalliance with capitalism since 1978 was still in its teens, and the very idea of property ownership was not even protected by law.

But Meng was no ordinary visiting scholar. He was already the president of China’s first real estate firm – the China National Real Estate Development Group (CNRED). He also had been tapped by the Chinese government to map out a plan to develop property in the country.

Due in no small part to Meng and innovative thinkers like him, China is now the world’s biggest housing market, with US$1.7 trillion of new home sales last year, seven times the total transactions in the US, according to Stansberry Churchouse Research. Full Story

China Property: Prices are Rising but So is Home Ownership

China Property; Owning a house is as important as having a good job

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