Understanding China’s Real Estate Markets: A Brief Introduction

Abstract

This chapter serves as an introduction to this book. It highlights the unique context and original intentions for this book, which focuses on the transformation of China’s real estate markets. It presents the book’s organizational structure and briefly summarizes the content of each chapter. By looking closely at the conditions and characteristics of the various critical aspects of China’s real estate markets, this book aims to establish a connection between the disciplinary knowledge and the practice of real estate while situating real estate in the context of China’s overall economic outlook, its legal system, financing mechanisms, and asset-defined physical and social development patterns.