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Chinese key target in Vancouver condo push
Wed Jun 1, 2011

(Reuters) - In Vancouver, Canada's hottest real estate market, one marketer is targeting Chinese buyers with a new get-a-deal spin on condos.

Sales and marketing firm The Key launches an online real estate venture later this month, offering week-by-week discounts. The first one promises savings of C$200,000 ($206,000) if a buyer snaps up two condos rather than one.

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Its target market is Chinese investors, who have already driven up prices for multimillion dollar homes in a few Vancouver neighborhoods. [ID:nN01250393]

"They'll do whatever they have to do to get a deal. They're going to be a huge group ... and getting a better deal than they could ever get on their own," said The Key President Cam Good, who says his special offer web site is modeled on daily deal service Groupon.

Good tried a version of bulk selling in the soft Vancouver real estate market of early 2009, pre-negotiating a deal with a developer and selling 400 condos in 90 days, a move that helped spark a turnaround in the Vancouver market.

"There's a huge appetite for getting a deal, no matter whether the market is strong or not," he said.

The first venture will offer savings on two waterfront condo developments near Vancouver. In one, buyers can save C$200,000 or more by purchasing twin units that they can combine and customize into "a dream home in the sky."

Good hopes to be able to offer a new one-day deal every Saturday in a sales concept that could spread to other Canadian condo markets like Toronto and Calgary.

($1= $0.97 Canadian) (Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Janet Guttsman and Jeffrey Hodgson)

深圳樓降價25%遭質疑

深圳樓降價25%遭質疑

明報
6/2/2011

最新公布的數據顯示，深圳5月房價較前一個月下跌近25%，重回兩年前水平，但有業界人士質疑非「真正降價」。
深圳市規劃國土委公布的最新數據顯示，深圳市5月份一手商品住房成交均價15262元人民幣，與4月份相比，降幅高達24.8%，重回兩年前的水平。但有專家認為目前數據顯示的均價下跌，並不是真正的降價。

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《南方都市報》2日報道稱，據最新數據顯示，5月份深圳市新房成交量呈大幅上升之勢，成交套數和成交面積均上漲逾50%。與4月份相比，5月新房成交套數增加1054套，增加幅度高達56%，日均增加34套。

深圳福田市民張先生最近一直在看房。他聽到5月房價均價1.5萬元的消息，表示不認同，「房價根本沒降。我在西麗看一處房子，兩月前135萬，現在145萬，漲了10萬元。」
深圳房地產研究中心副主任王鋒表示：「這個數據不準確，那樣簡單統計，早就被認為不科學，不能反映實際樓市的情況。」

世聯地產市場研究部總監、首席分析師王海斌表示，目前數據顯示的均價下跌，主要由於高價項目入不了市、成交結構變化造成的，並不是真正的降價。
也有深圳地產研究人士認為，儘管5月由於龍崗、寶安兩區銷售量大增，從而拉低了全市均價，與市場存在一定差距；但目前深圳樓市確實在向「降價」的方向發展，降價的樓盤愈來愈多。

（中新社）