TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s housing regulator and three other municipal and financial authorities issued implementation rules on commercial housing pre-sales, effective Sept. 24, 2026. For commodity housing projects whose land-use rights sale is announced after Aug. 28, 2026, developers must complete the main structural topping-out before applying for pre-sales and submit a signed acceptance record. All pre-sale proceeds will be supervised in full throughout the process, with controls lifted only after joint project inspection.
Beijing Tightens Pre-Sale Rules, Requires Full Escrow of Buyer Funds
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Beijing is shifting pre-sale risk decisively toward developers by tying eligibility to structural completion and locking all buyer funds until joint inspection. This squeezes the working-capital model that has long financed Chinese residential construction, pressuring smaller builders most while favoring better-capitalized players. The open question is whether this municipal standard spreads to other tier-one cities and how developers adapt their financing and launch timelines.
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