Real estate and Inflation in China
Name: Bosong Wang Student Number: 40303198 The main purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between real estate and inflation in China. Inflation means that money is worthless. In other words, you have to spend more money to buy the same goods (Ralph, 2017). This can be called devaluation, and also this can be called inflation. Real estate is a commodity, and also it has two attributes: one is the attribute of consumer goods as a consumption function, the other is the financial nature of assets. When it is a consumer good, it can reflect the impact of inflation on housing prices, the phenomenon of assets and inflation rising simultaneously. On the one hand, housing prices reflect inflation; on the other hand, housing prices beat inflation. In 1998, the Chinese government made a major adjustment to its housing policy. This important move turned real estate assets into tradable commodities. Over the next 15 years, property prices soared, whi...