--FILE--acheteurs potentiels regarder une maquette d'un nouveau développement de la propriété du logement au cours d'une foire à Xuchang ville, province de Henan, Chine centre 5
--FILE--Prospective buyers look at a scaled model of a new housing development during a property fair in Xuchang city, center Chinas Henan province, 5 April 2013. Average home prices in key Chinese cities were higher in March, indicating recent government efforts to control the unruly real-estate market are having little effect. Despite a move to enforce a tax on home-sale profits, the overall average price for 70 Chinese cities was up from the previous month and from a year earlier, with new homes in major cities showing the largest gains. The cost of newly built homes in 68 of 70 large and midsize cities rose in March from February; data released Thursday (18 April 2013) by the National Bureau of Statistics showed, after rising in February from January in 66 of the cities. The average price increase for all 70 cities was 1.02% in March, calculations by The Wall Street Journal showed, marginally exceeding Februarys 1.01%.
