43市房价下跌：买房的该出手了吗？
New home prices in nearly two-thirds of China's major cities fell again in April as the country continued its initiatives to regulate the real estate market, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
In April, 43 out of the statistical pool of 70 major cities saw drops in new home prices from March, while new home prices in 24 cities remained at the same level, the NBS said.
Only three cities, down from eight in March, saw slight increases of less than 0.2 percent in new home prices last month, the NBS noted.
Compared with April 2011, the sale prices of newly constructed residential buildings declined in 46 cities out of 70, with one remaining unchanged. However, a total of 23 cities saw sale prices up by less than 1.7 percent from last year.
Prices of newly built homes in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou fell further on both monthly and yearly bases in April.
China started adopting measures to dampen property prices in 2010. Those measures have included tighter lending policies, higher down payments, a ban on third-home purchases, property tax trials and the construction of low-income housing.
The Chinese government has repeatedly stated that the country will maintain property regulation policies without wavering.
沪江英语快讯：国家统计局5月18日发布4月份70个大中城市住宅销售价格变动情况，43个一线城市新建商品住宅价格下降。一线城市如北京、上海、广州、深圳新房价格同比、环比均小幅下跌。环比价格上涨的3个城市中，涨幅均未超过0.2%。新京报称，房价已丧失大幅下跌的基础下调存款准备金率以及各地出台的微调政策给置业者以“底部”预期，需求开始逐步释放。房地产过热了压一压、经济增速过缓了拉一拉是某种意义上无奈之事，中国转变经济发展方式必然是一个长期的、艰巨的过程。
