China News Service, September 15 According to the website of the Bureau of Statistics, the Bureau of Statistics released on the 15th the national real estate development investment and sales from January to August 2020.

From January to August, the area of ​​commercial housing sold was 98486 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 3.3%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 2.5 percentage points from January to July.

　　Among them, residential sales area fell by 2.5%, office building sales area fell 19.5%, and commercial business housing sales area fell 17.0%.

Commercial housing sales amounted to 9694.3 billion yuan, an increase of 1.6%, and a decline of 2.1% from January to July.

Among them, residential sales increased 4.1%, office building sales fell 18.0%, and commercial business housing sales fell 19.9%.

　　From January to August, the national real estate development investment was 8,845.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%, and the growth rate was 1.2 percentage points higher than that from January to July.

Among them, residential investment was 6,545.4 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3%, and the growth rate increased by 1.2%.

　　From January to August, the investment in real estate development in the eastern region was 4732.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%, and the growth rate was 1.5 percentage points higher than that from January to July; the investment in the central region was 1,760.5 billion yuan, down 1.1%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 2.0 percentage points; Regional investment was 1966.6 billion yuan, an increase of 7.9%, and the growth rate dropped by 0.4 percentage points; the investment in the Northeast region was 355.4 billion yuan, an increase of 4.0%, and the growth rate increased by 1.5 percentage points.

　　From January to August, the floor space under construction by real estate development enterprises was 839.73 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%, and the growth rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than that from January to July.

Among them, the residential construction area was 5,92.16 million square meters, an increase of 4.3%.

The floor space of newly started houses was 1,39.17 million square meters, down 3.6%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 0.9%.

Among them, the newly-started residential area was 1,02486 million square meters, down 4.3%.

The floor space of houses completed was 371.07 million square meters, a decrease of 10.8%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 0.1 percentage point.

Among them, the completed residential area was 264.98 million square meters, down 9.7%.

　　From January to August, the area of ​​land purchased by real estate development enterprises was 119.47 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 2.4%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points from January to July; the transaction price of land was 708.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%, and the growth rate dropped by 1.0 percentage point.

　　From January to August, the sales area of ​​commercial housing in the eastern region was 406.14 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 0.8%, and a decrease of 2.2% from January to July; sales were 546.5 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6%, and the growth rate increased by 4.6 percentage points from January to July. .

The sales area of ​​commercial housing in the central region was 263.3 million square meters, down 8.5%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 2.6 percentage points; sales of 19,077.2 billion yuan, down 7.8%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 2.8 percentage points.

The sales area of ​​commercial housing in the western region was 275.25 million square meters, down 2.7%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 1.5 percentage points; sales of 20,042.4 billion yuan, an increase of 0.3%, fell 2.5% from January to July.

The sales area of ​​commercial housing in Northeast China was 40.17 million square meters, down 10.2%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 4.3 percentage points; sales of 338.1 billion yuan, down 5.8%, and the rate of decrease narrowed by 3.7%.

　　At the end of August, the area of ​​commercial housing for sale was 50.52 million square meters, a decrease of 6.39 million square meters from the end of July.

Among them, the area for sale of residential buildings decreased by 7.05 million square meters, the area for sale of office buildings decreased by 170,000 square meters, and the area for sale of commercial buildings increased by 270,000 square meters.

Funds in place for real estate development enterprises

　　From January to August, the funds in place for real estate development enterprises reached 1,1709.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.0%, and the growth rate was 2.2 percentage points higher than that from January to July.

Among them, domestic loans amounted to 1801.6 billion yuan, an increase of 4.0%; the use of foreign capital was 10.1 billion yuan, an increase of 24.5%; self-raised funds were 3,732 billion yuan, an increase of 3.6%; deposits and advance payments were 3,883.7 billion yuan, an increase of 1.2%; personal mortgage loans were 1,895.7 billion yuan Yuan, an increase of 8.6%.

Real Estate Development Prosperity Index

　　In August, the real estate development prosperity index (referred to as the "national housing prosperity index") was 100.33, an increase of 0.24 points from July.