{
  "id": 2225317,
  "title": "Flood of discounted auction homes deepens China’s property slump",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/flood-of-discounted-auction-homes-deepens-chinas-property-slump",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T20:23:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/flood-of-discounted-auction-homes-deepens-chinas-property-slump/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "China’s residential property prices kept falling this year as a surge in court-ordered auction homes flooded the market with steep discounts, deepening buyer wariness and stalling any signs of recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. Data from China Index Academy, a real estate research institute, showed the number of properties listed for court-ordered auction across […] The post Flood of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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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."
}