The Chinese residential real estate market has been tough but the commercial real estate market is even worse. Here is a quote from a Los Angeles Times article about Beijing.
500 million square feet of commercial real estate has been developed in Beijing since 2006, more than all the office space in Manhattan. And that doesn’t include huge projects developed by the government. He says 100 million square feet of office space is vacant — a 14-year supply if it filled up at the same rate as in the best years, 2004 through ‘06, when about 7 million square feet a year was leased.
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