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  "title": "Understanding Residential Real Estate in China",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, April 28, 2015",
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  "summary": "China’s residential real estate sector plays an important role in the economy and has been a key driver of growth. Since 2014 the sector has softened visibly, reflecting overbuilding across many cities. An orderly adjustment of the sector is welcome.",
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      "content": "- China’s residential real estate sector plays an important role in the economy and has been a key driver of growth.\n- Since 2014 the sector has softened visibly, reflecting overbuilding across many cities.\n- The paper asks how severe the adjustment will be and how long it will last, and emphasizes that an orderly adjustment is welcome."
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      "heading": "Data, methods, and scope",
      "content": "- Uses various datasets and an analytical framework to estimate demand and supply conditions.\n- Develops a number of scenarios to determine the oversupply both at the national level and by city tiers.\n- Full text is also available in Chinese.\n- Authors: Mali Chivakul, Waikei Raphael Lam, Xiaoguang Liu, Wojciech Maliszewski, Alfred Schipke.\n- Date: April 28, 2015."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- The adjustment in the residential real estate sector will be a multiyear process with adverse implications for investment and growth.\n- Smaller cities, as well as those in the Northeast region, face more challenging demand-supply dynamics.\n- Allowing the adjustment to take place while avoiding a too sharp of an economic slowdown is identified as the key policy challenge."
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      "content": "- Permit an orderly, multiyear adjustment in the residential real estate sector.\n- Manage the adjustment to avoid a sharp economic slowdown that would amplify adverse implications for investment and growth.\n- Pay particular attention to smaller cities and cities in the Northeast region given their more challenging demand-supply dynamics.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Microsoft Word\n  - Microsoft Word (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Microsoft Word (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- wp1584c\n  - wp1584c (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp1584c (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/understanding-residential-real-estate-in-china-42873"
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    "Published: April 28, 2015",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484337066.001",
    "China’s residential real estate sector plays an important role in the economy and has been a key driver of growth.",
    "Since 2014 the sector has softened visibly, reflecting overbuilding across many cities.",
    "The paper asks how severe the adjustment will be and how long it will last, and emphasizes that an orderly adjustment is welcome.",
    "Uses various datasets and an analytical framework to estimate demand and supply conditions.",
    "Develops a number of scenarios to determine the oversupply both at the national level and by city tiers.",
    "Full text is also available in Chinese.",
    "Authors: Mali Chivakul, Waikei Raphael Lam, Xiaoguang Liu, Wojciech Maliszewski, Alfred Schipke.",
    "Date: April 28, 2015.",
    "The adjustment in the residential real estate sector will be a multiyear process with adverse implications for investment and growth.",
    "Smaller cities, as well as those in the Northeast region, face more challenging demand-supply dynamics.",
    "Allowing the adjustment to take place while avoiding a too sharp of an economic slowdown is identified as the key policy challenge.",
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    "Manage the adjustment to avoid a sharp economic slowdown that would amplify adverse implications for investment and growth.",
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