Listed Real Estate Asia, KT Capital Group

Jacob Cheng

Listed Real Estate Asia

KT Capital Group

Principal investments and advisory firm that focuses on connecting the CIS countries with East Asia.

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<li>Property agents say more government support is needed.  But historically timing and scale of policy is hard to predict</li>
<li>POEs are still under pressure with bond default.  Latest case is KWG missing debt payment and potential cross default</li>
<li>Sector's valuation is almost at all time low and big part of risk is priced in.  But stocks can stay cheap forever.  Monitor the HY bond market as key indicator.</li>
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Property agents say more government support is needed.  But historically timing and scale of policy is hard to predict
POEs are still under pressure with bond default.  Latest case is KWG missing debt payment and potential cross default
Sector's valuation is almost at all time low and big part of risk is priced in.  But stocks can stay cheap forever.  Monitor the HY bond market as key indicator.


Short Note: China Prop - When Is a Good Time to Revisit the Sector? Still No Light at the Tunnel

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<li>Full year 2022 annual results indicate that SOEs CRL and COLI are holding up, while smaller developers are still under liquidity pressure</li>
<li>In terms of the physical market, contract sales rebound strongly in Q1, with SOEs to gain market share over POEs</li>
<li>Sunac announced resume trading today (down 53%), but sector risk is still here.  Part of the risk is priced in at current valuation for sector, but SOEs are not cheap </li>
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Full year 2022 annual results indicate that SOEs CRL and COLI are holding up, while smaller developers are still under liquidity pressure
In terms of the physical market, contract sales rebound strongly in Q1, with SOEs to gain market share over POEs
Sunac announced resume trading today (down 53%), but sector risk is still here.  Part of the risk is priced in at current valuation for sector, but SOEs are not cheap 


Short Note: China Prop FY22 Results, Physical Market Uneven Recovery and Sunac’s Trading Resumption

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<li>PBoC just announced a RRR cut of 25bps, which is a surprise to market</li>
<li>The cut will lower average RRR from 7.8% to 7.6%, and is expected to release c. 500bn of liquidity. China’s low inflation allows more room for further RRR cuts</li>
<li>Government’s press release addresses key market concerns.  We need to monitor recovery in property market.  LONG China on easing cycle.  China property names are trading at distressed valuation</li>
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PBoC just announced a RRR cut of 25bps, which is a surprise to market
The cut will lower average RRR from 7.8% to 7.6%, and is expected to release c. 500bn of liquidity. China’s low inflation allows more room for further RRR cuts
Government’s press release addresses key market concerns.  We need to monitor recovery in property market.  LONG China on easing cycle.  China property names are trading at distressed valuation


Short Note: LONG China on Monetary Easing Cycle

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

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<ul><li>NBS 2M23 sales value came flattish YoY, in line with our forecast.</li><li>However, it beat China funds ’ expectation and strongly beat foreign funds’expectation, thus driving today’s sector rally.</li><li>Looking at March, we expect even stronger March data (positive sales YoY) as 1) MTD sales of 30 major cities already recorded 24% growth YoY. 2) Our sales leading indicator GAIN was one of the highest in Feb, indicating very promising March. 3) Recent channel check in major cities suggests sales momentum to continue on stabilized property price and historically low mortgage rate. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

NBS 2M23 sales value came flattish YoY, in line with our forecast.However, it beat China funds ’ expectation and strongly beat foreign funds’expectation, thus driving today’s sector rally.Looking at March, we expect even stronger March data (positive sales YoY) as 1) MTD sales of 30 major cities already recorded 24% growth YoY. 2) Our sales leading indicator GAIN was one of the highest in Feb, indicating very promising March. 3) Recent channel check in major cities suggests sales momentum to continue on stabilized property price and historically low mortgage rate. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Property Sector – NBS 2M23 data: Strong as expected

<ul><li>We saw another week of strong property data where new home/secondary home sales went up 23%/12% WoW.</li><li>This is in line with our sales leading index GAIN and our upgrade report that sales is more sustainable than what market thinks.</li><li>The solid housing recovery has also accelerated housing construction activities that its construction resumption rate recovered to 84.1%, higher than 2022 already, and only slightly lagging behind the infrastructure (87.3%) and government projects (88.2%). </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

We saw another week of strong property data where new home/secondary home sales went up 23%/12% WoW.This is in line with our sales leading index GAIN and our upgrade report that sales is more sustainable than what market thinks.The solid housing recovery has also accelerated housing construction activities that its construction resumption rate recovered to 84.1%, higher than 2022 already, and only slightly lagging behind the infrastructure (87.3%) and government projects (88.2%). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Property Sector – Property+ Weekly: Sales momentum accelerated on lower tier cities

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China Overseas Land & Investment is a Hong Kong-based real estate conglomerate primarily engaged in property development and sales, property investment, and property management services. The company develops residential and commercial properties, including office buildings, shopping malls, and hotels. It was founded in Hong Kong in 1979.

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Short Note: China Prop - When Is a Good Time to Revisit the Sector? Still No Light at the Tunnel

Short Note - when should we re-visit China property sector? There seems to be no light at the tunnel. POEs continue to suffer while SOEs shine. ...

Jacob Cheng

Short Note: China Prop FY22 Results, Physical Market Uneven Recovery and Sunac’s Trading Resumption

Implications from 1) China property FY2022 results, 2) physical market Q1 uneven recovery and 3) Sunac's trading resumption - safe bets are still...

Jacob Cheng

Short Note: LONG China on Monetary Easing Cycle

China just announced a 25bps RRR cut, which is a surprise. China's low inflation allows more room to RRR cuts. Jan-Feb macro data shows...

Jacob Cheng

China Property Sector – NBS 2M23 data: Strong as expected

NBS 2M23 sales value came flattish YoY, in line with our forecast. However, it beat China funds ’ expectation and strongly beat foreign...

CMB International

China Property Sector – Property+ Weekly: Sales momentum accelerated on lower tier cities

This is in line with our sales leading index GAIN and our upgrade report that sales is more sustainable than what market thinks.

CMB International

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