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Since the second half of this year, however, home sellers in the capital have started offering steep discounts. Old apartments, which were built before 2000 and account for more than half of active listings, are leading the wave in price cuts. In Panjiayuan, a neighbourhood in downtown Beijing, a three-bedroom apartment in a residential complex built in the early 1980s is listed for Rmb3.1mn ($435,000), down from Rmb4m a year ago. A broker for the flat, who declined to be named, said it had received few inquiries and prices could fall further. “We are open to negotiation if buyers are sincere,” the broker said. “But there are not many of them.” Newer flats are not faring much better. In Chaoyang, a central Beijing diplomatic and business district, a two-bedroom apartment in the popular Apple Community compound built in 2005 sold in October for Rmb6mn, brokers said. A similar unit in the same neighbourhood sold for Rmb7.5mn in March. Luxury homes are also losing lustre. A four-bedroom apartment in Oak Bay, a prestigious residential complex, is now priced at Rmb33mn, down from Rmb38mn in March. Many home sellers have been forced to cut prices multiple times in a short timeframe. Jane Wang, an office worker in Beijing, listed her centrally located two-bedroom apartment for Rmb5.6mn in March. Two months later, she had not received a single inquiry. Wang reduced her asking price to Rmb5.3mn and then Rmb5mn before, in desperation, she relisted the apartment early this month for Rmb4.7m — lower than the price she paid for it four years ago. “I will give up selling the apartment if no one accepts the price,” she said. Authorities are aware of the sector’s woes but have been reluctant to make third-party data from leading real estate brokers, which regularly feed transaction and listing information to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, available to the public, according to people familiar with the matter. In August this year, property platform Beike apologised after publishing a report that suggested 12 per cent of completed residential apartments in China’s 28 major cities were unoccupied. The platform has since been banned from publishing historical transaction prices. Recommended Chinese society The human cost of China’s property crisis “The government is angry about the report and Beike has since become a lot more cautious in releasing data to the public,” said the person close to the company. The lack of reliable data does not engender confidence in buyers. Wang Lei, a Beijing-based marketing executive, postponed plans to buy a home this year in anticipation that prices would fall further. “I don’t need the government to tell me everything is fine,” said Wang. “It is not.”