Foreigners who intend to buy a house in Beijing need a certificate issued by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau to prove that they have stayed in China for at least one year for reasons ...

Another source of house price indices is eHomeday, Shanghai's largest property market web site, which has time-series for Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Beijing, Yangzhou and Suzhou (but the site is ...

Beijing launched a 100-day campaign to "clean out" foreigners living and working illegally in the city. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks with Josh Chin.