As compared month-on-month, 66 cities got an increase of sales price indices of newly constructed residential buildings, of the total, the top fives are: Sanya was 5.1 percent, Beijing was 4.5 percent, Wenzhou was 4.1 percent, Haikou was 3.3 percent, and Bengbu was 3.1 percent; that of 1 city dropped: Jinzhou was 0.1 percent.

The sale price indices of second-handed residential housings expanded 0.2 percent year-on-year, or increased 0.5 percentage points month-on-month; the chain index advanced 0.5 percent, narrowed 0.1 percentage points month-on-month.

In terms of different regions, as compared year-on-year, 69 cities got an increase of sales price indices of second-handed residential buildings, of the total, the top fives were: Shenzhen was 23.9 percent, Wenzhou was 19.2 percent, Hangzhou was 13.9 percent, Xiamen was 13.2 percent, and Jinhua was 12.1 percent; while that of 1 city dropped: Tangshan was 1.8 percent.

As compared with previous month, 60 cities got picking up, of total, the top fives were: Sanya was 3.3 percent, Huizhou was 2.6 percent, Jilin was 2.4 percent, Haikou was 2.3 percent, and Xiamen was 2.0 percent; that of 1 city decreased: Kunming was 0.1 percent.

The sales price indices of new non-residential housings went up 4.3 percent year-on-year, expanded 0.3 percentage points month-on-month; the chain index boomed 0.6 percent, declined 0.3 percentage points month-on-month.

As compared year-on-year, the sales price indices of office buildings were up by 6.4 percent, that of for commercial purposes ballooned 2.7 percent, that of for others increased 4.1 percent. As compared month-on-month, the sales price indices of office buildings were up by 0.6 percent, that of for commercial purposes ballooned 0.6 percent, that of for others decreased 0.3 percent.

In fourth quarter, the sales price indices of buildings in 70 medium-large sized cities boomed 5.8 percent year-on-year, of which, sale price indices of newly constructed residential buildings increased 6.4 percent, that of second-handed residential housings went up by 5.6 percent; that of housing rentals kept same level year-on-year; that of estate management ballooned 13.8 percent, and that of land transaction surged 19.4 percent year-on-year.

V. National real estate development climate index

In December, national real estate development climate index was 103.66, promoted 0.88 points month-on-month.

In terms of different indices, the investment index of real estate development was 100.42, dipped 0.18 points month-on-month; the index of capital sources was 110.77, up by 1.25 points month-on-month; the index of floor spaces development was 95.69, went up 0.33 points month-on-month; the index of vacant floor spaces of commercial buildings was 96.87, surged 3.03 points month-on-month; the index of floor spaces of buildings under construction was 102.51, declined 0.50 points month-on-month.

(National Bureau of Statistics January 21, 2010)