Real estate prices see falling trend
By Hu Yuanyuan | China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-11 08:00

Property prices in China's 70 major cities fell 1.2 percent year-on-year in February, the third drop in a row since December 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement yesterday.
The decrease rate is 0.3 percentage points higher than January when property prices dropped 0.9 percent on a yearly basis.
Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the largest cities in the country, all experienced a price fall, with a drop of 0.7 percent, 2.4 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively.
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