China Real Estate Wrap: Shanghai Weekly Data, Economy Housing

January 19 – Shanghai will build 80,000 apartments covering 5 million m2 for low income earners in 2011, said mayor Han Zheng.
Source: http://www.yicai.com/news/2011/01/660331.html

January 19 – Overall property sales in Chongqing totaled 43 million m2 valued at ¥180 billion in 2010, up 7.8% and 34.1% respectively from the year before, according to the local statistics bureau.
Source: http://www.yicai.com/news/2011/01/659619.html

January 18 – New home sales in Shanghai totaled 244,000m2 at ¥23,055/m2 in the week of 16 January 2011, down 15.7% and 0.1% respectively from a week earlier, according to Youwin.com.cn.
Source: http://finance.qq.com/a/20110118/000268.htm

January 17 – Sanya and Haikou, two cities of the southern island province of Hainan, registered a 43.3% and 35.5% increase in housing prices in 2010, the fastest among all major cities, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Source: http://finance.qq.com/a/20110118/000487.htm

January 17 – Property prices in the 70 largest cities rose 6.4% year on year and 0.3% month on month in December, where prices of new residential space were up 7.6% year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Source: http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjfx/jdfx/t20110117_402698591.htm