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...China, home of the Great Wall, is a crowded country where bigger is usually viewed as better, so it's no surprise that retail-property developers seem to be trying to outdo each other with giant construction projects. The mainland already hosts the world's largest shopping center, the 7 million sq. ft. (650,000 sq m) South China Mall in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan. Like Golden Resources, South China Mall suffers from a dearth of stores and shoppers. Yet more megamalls are on the way. By 2010, China expects to be home to seven of the world...
...stories. Shanghai's Raffles City and the MIXc, a mall in the city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, have good locations and a profitable tenant mix, says Bryn Davies, executive director of retail services for CB Richard Ellis in Greater China. And, despite the glut of space, the mainland's retail sector remains in bull-market mode. Economists expect as the country's consumer culture continues to develop, demand will continue to increase. China today accounts for 5% of global consumption, but investment bank Credit Suisse predicts that number will rise to 14% by 2015, making the country...
...digit growth rate. David Simon, president of Simon Property, the U.S.'s largest public real estate company, may have summed up the market best during a meeting with analysts in February: "China is lots of ups and downs," Simon said. His company has four malls under construction on the mainland and has plans to build another eight. But after that, Simon said he foresees "no further activity in China until we get some more experience under our belt...
...trebled in value in just the past 18 months-has triggered a stampede of Chinese companies eager to offer shares to a ravenous public. But is the IPO boom a historic milestone marking the permanent shift of China's financial center of gravity from Hong Kong to the mainland? Or is it a temporary aberration that, for investors, will come to a tragic and costly...
...Many analysts believe China's A-share market-stocks priced in renminbi that are available almost exclusively to mainland investors-is experiencing a classic bubble and is destined to crash. Certainly it isn't hard to find evidence to support this conclusion. The 1990s U.S. technology and dotcom bubble saw an explosion of IPOs that peaked in 1999, when companies raised $63.1 billion (still a U.S. record). The bubble burst the following year. China's shares, which now trade on average at about 45 times next year's earnings estimates, are definitely expensive. But there are differences between China...