China

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - China Compared to Continent

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North Korea	-66.25%
Turkmenistan	-15.54%
Myanmar	-11.95%
Cambodia	-11.81%
Bangladesh	-8.96%
Philippines	-7.31%
Sri Lanka	-6.72%
Thailand	-3.54%
Indonesia	-3.39%
Singapore	-0.90%
Taiwan	-0.87%
South Korea	-0.60%
China	0.42%
Hong Kong	0.50%
Azerbaijan	2.22%
Pakistan	3.34%
Armenia	4.48%
Malaysia	5.65%
India	5.81%
Nepal	6.11%
Japan	7.13%
Kyrgyztan	7.74%
Vietnam	7.85%
Mongolia	8.81%
Kazakhstan	15.78%
Tajikistan	17.02%
Georgia	18.21%
Laos	20.00%
Uzbekistan	36.51%

China: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

China has poor house price statistics. The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) has quarterly house price time-series but these are not publicly available. Another source of house price indices is eHomeday, Shanghai's largest property market web site, which has time-series for Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Beijing, Yangzhou and Suzhou (but the site is only in Chinese, and no time-series are available). Colliers International publishes useful housing data in their quarterly property market reviews. General economics statistics are available from the NBSC and the People’s Bank of China.