BEIJING: New home prices in China rose 4.3% in April from a year earlier, slowing from a rise of 5.2% in March, according to Reuters calculations from official data.

New home prices in Beijing rose 2.8% in April from a year earlier, down from a 4.9% annual rise in March, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday, May 18.

In Shanghai, prices climbed 1.3% in April, compared with a rise of 1.7% in March.

Since early 2011, the agency stopped publishing an average national home price index. — Reuters

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