Reading this, I think I can understand the thinking of CapitaLand and other China property bulls. “Everyone agrees China is in the middle of a spectacular real estate boom. The question is whether it is in the middle of a rapidly growing real estate bubble.”
There’s serious money to be made in the short-term.
And a very reputable economist and China watcher, Nicholas R. Lardy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, say the housing boom is being propelled by a huge urbanization push that is creating premium-priced houses. He is not the only economist to say this. And CapLand said this yesterday.
So if China is a core market, you really don’t have a choice. You got to double, triple yr bets, and pray hard that you get out in time.
Relevant posts
https://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/capland-what-price-the-mega-china-deal/
https://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/tlcs-in-china-groupthink-or-mastermind-at-work/
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