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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A Hong Kong court has ordered one of China's biggest property developers, Evergrande Group, to liquidate after it was unable to reach a restructuring deal with creditors over hundreds of billions of dollars it owes.

Key points:

  • Evergrande has been ordered to liquidate after failing to come up with a restructuring deal with creditors over US$300 billion in debts owed
  • The liquidator will now attempt to take control of Evergrande assets outside China, but there are fears that could pave the way for other lawsuits
  • It could take years for the offshore liquidator to take control of subsidiaries across mainland China
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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

Not a property developer! Harcourt, fetch me my clutching pearls!

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Real Estate represents something like 30% of China's total GDP and Evergrande was one of the top 3 largest Real Estate developers in China. Country Garden is / was another of the Top 3 and it too is in default with a debt problem almost as bad as Evergrande.

Those two former behemoths aside China has seen literally dozens of smaller Real Estate developers default and go under over the past 36 months and it's having painful consequences on downstream industries, consumers, and government budgets.

This ain't "Pearl Clutching", Evergrande is just the latest visible indicator that there's a serious problem with the Chinese Economy.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Evergrande halted trading on Chinas stock exchange for like over a year and a half.

China gave them time and money to not fail, but it was too late. Now the sticthing is coming undone.

Their stock was halted again today:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/29/asia-markets.html

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

So, too big to fail, huh? I see where you're at.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

So, too big to fail, huh? I see where you’re at.

Oh no, they are failing. Are in fact failed at this point.

[-] clayh@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah I didn’t own a house in 2008 so that whole financial crisis thing had zero impact on me 🤔

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