Under the Veneer of a 'Prime' Land Market

By staff reporters Zhang Yingguang, Chenzhong Xiaolu and Gong Jing, and intern reporters Wang Zhen, Ci Bing and Zhang Lihua

Cover story part 1: Real Estate Comeback: Tenacious or Tenuous?  
Cover story part 2: Upscale Flats and 'Weathervane' Shanghai
Cover story part 4: Peaks, Valley for Shenzhen Property Market

A residential block in Shanghai's Qingpu District sold at a July land auction for more than 3 billion yuan, or about 14,500 yuan per square meter, topping a record square-meter price of 10,672 yuan set for a Qingpu plot in 2007.