Chinese Property Bubble?

[carteki]

There has been lots in the press this year about the Chinese property Bubble and I came across this article this morning http://www.moneyweb.com/mw/view/mw/en/p ... pid=287226 which got me thinking. The article mentions that vast numbers of the newly developed properties in Shanghai are sitting empty. I haven't been to Shanghai or other parts of China, but is this a true reflection of what is happening on the ground or just the writers perception?

[revhappy]

Not sure of their property market, but look at their stock market, the Shanghai composite is less than 50% of its all time high and it is supposed to be the fastest growing economy and the country that got the world out of recession In comparison most of the lesser known asian markets are close of their all time high if not higher.

[Grumpy77]

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[aster]

Assuming there is a collapse in property prices over there, what will happen to the world economy (we all remember how things went when the US bubble burst...)?

Which currencies will go up and which will crash?