China's new home prices extend decline despite improvement in major cities
BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 09:42 PM EDTBEIJING, April 16 (Reuters) - China's new home prices extended their decline in March, official data showed on Thursday, although major cities showed some month-on-month improvement.
Weak demand continued to weigh on the property market.
According to Reuters calculations based on data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, new home prices fell 0.2% in March from the previous month, compared with a 0.3% decline in February.
On an annual basis, prices dropped 3.4%, deeper than February's 3.2% fall and the sharpest decline in ten months. (Reporting by Yukun Zhang, Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
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