1. Over 20 cities have introduced new rounds of housing subsidy policies, with subsidies up to 300,000 yuan.
2. Chengtou Holdings: Second-quarter contracted sales reached 1.315 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.68%.
3. Two residential land parcels in Chengdu were sold at the reserve price of 786 million yuan.
4. A massive residential land parcel of approximately 102 mu (about 6.8 hectares) in Dongguan CBD was listed for auction, with a starting price of 3.13 billion yuan.
5. Centaline Property: First-half luxury home sales in Hong Kong reached HK$111.3 billion, a 31-year high.
6. A low-density residential land parcel in the Yinhu Unit of Fuyang District, Hangzhou, was listed for auction, with a starting price of 145 million yuan.
7. Fuzhou's fifth land auction generated 3.079 billion yuan, with 10 parcels ultimately sold.
8. Lujiazui Group plans to issue 240 million yuan in corporate bonds to replace maturing bond principal.
9. Ricacorp Properties: 55 transactions were recorded in 50 benchmark housing estates in Hong Kong last week, the second lowest in 20 weeks.
10. US homebuilder confidence declined again, hitting a low for the year.