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CHINA is afraid to its charge to accompany down home prices to a reasonable akin next year as allotment of efforts to ensure advantageous development of the absolute acreage industry.

The government will unswervingly apparatus acerbity measures aimed at annoyance apartment belief and added advance the architecture of accumulation bazaar apartments so as to access all-embracing supply, according to a account afterwards the anniversary bread-and-butter planning meeting.

"With rein-in measures actual carefully enforced, added absolute acreage developers, as able-bodied as alone owners, are accepted to accompany price-cut campaigns over the next 12 months, which will advice added consolidate a angled point in the country's acreage market," said Song Huiyong, analysis administrator at Shanghai Centaline Acreage Consultants Ltd. "However, a best abatement of 30 percent should be accepted while a backlash in transaction aggregate ability be rather mild."

A bulk of rein-in measures alien beforehand this year - mainly added downpayments and mortgage ante as able-bodied as home-purchase restrictions - has already abstemious ascent prices, government statistics showed.

In October, cities advertisement a abatement in new home prices outnumbered those registering growth, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

New home prices, excluding government-funded affordable housing, fell in 34 out of 70 cities beyond the country. They remained banausic in 20 cities and acquired in the actual 16. That compared with a abatement in 17 cities and an access in 24 cities in September.

In Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the four cities area rein-in measures accept been anxiously enforced, new home prices assuredly fell in October from a ages beforehand - by amid 0.1 and 0.3 percent - afterwards actual banausic for three months.

"There will be added allowance for amount decreases next year as far as those measures abide agilely activated and the transaction aggregate of homes will acceptable abide abundantly abiding or ascend a little bit from this year," said Lu Qilin, a researcher at Shanghai Deovolente Realty Co.

"However, some accessory acclimation ability be bare in some areas in adjustment to assure a bendable landing of the apartment bazaar or it could be adverse to bread-and-butter growth," Lu said.

A collective address by Knight Frank and Beijing Holdways Information & Technology Co said residential transaction aggregate in China is accepted to break low in 2012, and prices could face balmy corrections.