foreigners in Beijing not allowed to receive gifted real properties if not eligible for purchasing

First of all, please note that I have not been able to locate the related decree or notice issued by Beijing local government, therefore not able to verify the captioned statement.

Just recently, in advising a foreign client in inheriting estate apartment left by his late father, I came to learn from local notary office a piece of new rule that was said to take…

pre-registration in property sale/purchase in China — a tip for property buyers

The word “pre-registration” may be very confusing if not misleading for people who don’t know Chinese property law, as the word itself does not laterally match the real meaning it was meant to mean here.

The pre-registration system in Chinese property market had been in place for long before it was formally introduced and expanded in …