Sky-high property prices force divorced couples to continue living together

Financial pressures can lead to a raft of problems, according to experts. Zhou Wenting reports from Shanghai.

In China's big cities today, a man and a woman living under the same roof may be one of several things: husband and wife; early-adult siblings, a spouse and an in-law; or, increasingly, former spouses.

Yuan and his former wife Lu, who are both 32 and live in Shanghai, are in exactly this situation (to ensure privacy, these are not their real names).