CHINESE property developer Yanlord Land Group recorded 26.1 billion yuan (S$4.8 billion) in total contracted presales from residential units, commercial units and car parks for the first nine months of the year.
The presales were for a contracted gross floor area of about 1.02 million square metres (sq m) and were 51.7 per cent lower than presales for the year ago period, the group said in a bourse filing on Tuesday (Oct 10).
Presales include those by the group, its joint ventures and associates.
Yanlord Land’s total contracted presales for September was down by 83.2 per cent to 1.6 billion yuan for a contracted gross floor area of 67,835 sq m.
In its unaudited key operating figures for the nine months ended Sep 30, Yanlord Land said it has approximately 2.6 billion yuan of subscription sales, which are expected to be turned into contracted presales in the coming months.
Five cities in China – Nanjing, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan and Tianjin – accounted for about 59.5 per cent of total contracted presales for the first nine months of the year.
For the first six months of 2023, Yanlord Land posted a net profit of approximately one billion yuan for the half year ended June 2023, down 20 per cent from the 1.4 billion yuan a year ago.
Property prices in China have slumped amid worsening business sentiment as property giants Country Garden face potential debt default and Evergrande Group aims to restructure US$22.7 billion of offshore debt.
Source : TheBusinessTimes