1. Financial Times: The weighted average interest rate for newly issued personal housing loans (domestic and foreign currencies) in April was approximately 3.1%.
2. Hainan plans to raise the maximum loan amount for housing provident fund loans to 1.2 million yuan.
3. The overall waiting time for public housing in Hong Kong has been shortened to 4.7 years, the lowest in over eight years.
4. OCT A: Contract sales reached 1.09 billion yuan in April.
5. Hangzhou's first "combined residential land" plot sold at a premium of 34.66%.
6. A residential land plot in Chengdu sold at a premium of 21.88%.
7. A residential land plot in Huadu District, Guangzhou, sold at the reserve price of 754 million yuan.
8. Poly Developments' subsidiary acquired two residential land plots in Zhengzhou's main urban area at the reserve price of 1.044 billion yuan.
9. Finance Minister: South Korea will mobilize "all possible means" to prevent the spread of instability in the real estate market.
