The concentrated nature of the real estate industry in China was a key factor triggering the ongoing property market crisis in the country, a new study by the University of Michigan has found.
In 2018, a few years before the beginning of the market's downturn, the top five real estate developers in China accounted for 30 percent of the country's entire housing production—compared to a share of 13 percent in the U.S. The collapse of some of the biggest developers in China—Evergrande and Country Garden—inevitably dragged the market down, the University of Michigan's study concluded.
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