The Future of Real Estate & Construction in China
The real estate and construction industry is one that has gone through many changes recently, and the government has made various attempts to control certain aspects of it with changes to the regulatory environment. Will investment in China continue in this industry and will the law evolve alongside it, or are new changes imminent? China Law & Practice takes a closer look at the field, what the lawyers have to say, and what the future will bring for China.
Date:
July 2008
Keywords (click to search): [Real estate] [construction]
By Katy Forse
The last few years in China have seen what was once a very liberal real estate market close up against foreign investment – a reaction by the government to the overheating of the market in general and increased foreign investment in particular.
New regulatory controls have been focusing on foreign investment because, according to Edward Epstein of Troutman Sanders, “it is more difficult for the government to control foreign investment in the macro-economy. Local investors can be controlled though the banking systems using lending policy requirements, but where foreign equity is being used, the government has no control at all through the macro-economy, they have to use the regulatory environment.”
New rules and regulations designed to cool down the market were introduced, e.g. Circular 50, which announced that any foreign-invested company investing in real estate or developing real estate would have to have its project filed in Beijing,...
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