China September 70-City Home Price Index Due at 09:30 Beijing Time

The 70-city index remains one of the few official, broad reads on a property sector whose weakness has weighed on Chinese demand and credit conditions more broadly. Because it is a monthly gauge spanning new and existing homes across major cities, it offers a directional signal that single-city data points cannot. Whether the release shows the downcycle stabilizing or broadening is the open question worth watching, along with any divergence between new-home and existing-home prices, which can point to where developer incentives and resale pressure are concentrated.