Making property pristine again

Fresh moves seek to sustain cleanup of residential sector amid restructuring

"There won't be any letup, we'll press on with crackdowns and policy tightening until your reform is inside out" - that could well have been the latest message sent by China's authorities to the seemingly recalcitrant property sector.

Last month, local governments across China rolled out additional, and stricter, policies to rein in home prices that threatened to spiral out of control again.