This is like comparing a burrito to a cheesecake. They might both include flower and cheese, but they are very different things. Just because these stories both involve real estate and lending doesn’t mean they’re related.

China’s problem is a big mess with developers over borrowing in the past, and not and being able to borrow now. The problem in your main article is mainly about commercial buildings like offices, which people no longer want to lease, because so many people are working remote.

This vacant office problem has less to do with greed and more to do with white collar humans deciding to instantly, and radically, change where they go to work.