Lifting FDI restrictions on real estate… slowly

December 18, 2015 | BY

Katherine Jo

China has taken careful steps to streamline regulations and ease burdens for foreign investors in real estate by relaxing requirements for equity ratios, loans, individual property purchases and FX registration, but many restrictions remain

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On August 19 2015, six state authorities in China jointly released the Circular on Revising Relevant Policy on the Entry of Foreign Investment into the Real Property Market and the Administration Thereof (关于调整房地产市场外资准入和管理有关政策的通知) (Circular 122). It came at a time when the Chinese economy was slowing, as was foreign investment