{
  "id": 1455162,
  "title": "China’s property recovery is fragile, but ignoring it is a mistake",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/chinas-property-recovery-is-fragile-but-ignoring-it-is-a-mistake",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T08:30:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3364238/chinas-property-recovery-fragile-ignoring-it-mistake"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Global commercial real estate investment markets are roaring back to life. In the first half of this year, direct investment in commercial property rose 27 per cent in annualised terms. The sharpest increase was in the Asia-Pacific, where transaction volumes were up 38 per cent to US$92.5 billion, the strongest half-yearly performance on record, according to data from JLL. While there have been…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}