China has accumulated approximately 2 trillion dollars of presale real estate liabilities (prepayments by home buyers for unfinished apartments); if developers stopped building, millions of households who paid in advance would be left with nothing

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Brian McCarthy

Evidence Quote

I think it's a couple trillion dollars of pre-sale liabilities among all the developers that if they just stopped people who paid for apartments would be out of luck so they don't want that they can't have that [39:39]

Source

China’s Economic House Of Cards Is Collapsing | Brian McCarthyThe Monetary Matters Network
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:05:04 PM

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