Topic: Shanghai to Rein In Property Market With Limits on Family Home Purchas

Shanghai introduced new measures to curb home price gains including restricting home purchases to one per household, increasing the supply of residential land, and using a property tax to cool the real estate market.

“The government will proactively get well prepared for the introduction of the trial property tax,” the government said in a statement on its website yesterday.

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