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Realty market recovers

China's residential housing market has begun to show signs of recovery with consistent sales volumes, DTZ, a real estate consulting firm said in a recent report. The sales volume has increased by 41.6 percent year-on-year in the first two months with residential housing prices falling consistently. In February, housing prices in first- and second-tier cities dropped 3.6 percent and 4.1 percent from a month earlier.

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