Tenant and very happy

New policies humanize China's home market that was tending to go askew

Huzhou-based Li Heqin was both elated and anxious when he was told in mid-August that his job promotion would relocate him to Shanghai to work as an automobile parts supplier's regional manager for East China.

Excited because promotion would mean stiffer challenges and bigger rewards; and anxious because the move from Zhejiang province would require him to eject from his own two-bedroom apartment to a rented flat in the big city, a potential nightmare in the current tight property market scene.