Evergrande, China's biggest real-estate developer, is being liquidated. It has assets worth about $245 billion, but owes about $300 billion.

A Hong Kong court ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer.

Evergrande has assets of about $245 billion, but owes about $300 billion.

Its demise is a “controlled collapse,” but still raises systemic risk and will hurt investors, says an analyst.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong. I know that Canadian home prices are bonkers, especially in large cities like Vancouver or anywhere in the GTA (are the Quebecois also having this trouble?). However, the problem with Evergrande isn’t just failure of this company reduces home prices (which is where lots of Canadian savings resides), but Evergrande had taken deposits for tens of thousands of homes it never built or never completed.

    So while the value/sale price of a home in Canada may be falling. At the end of the day it still does have value monetarily, and still serves a vital function of housing a family.

    China’s situation with Evergrande means the money paid for the house by the owner simply evaporated with no possibility of a refund and the house doesn’t exist because it was never built (or never completed). So to me the China situation looks significantly more dire.