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[SHANGHAI] A parcel of land in a suburb of Shanghai sold for a record 10.1 billion yuan (US$1.67 billion) at auction on Tuesday, the most expensive plot of residential land ever sold in the city, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The winning bid by Chinese developer Franshion Properties Ltd, a subsidiary of Sinochem Group, represented a premium of 115 percent over the initial price of 4.7 billion yuan, underscoring robust demand despite Chinese government policies to cool fast-rising housing prices.
The previous record for residential land in Shanghai was 7.2 billion yuan set in 2009.
The 96,429 square metre (23.8 acres) plot is located in a northern suburb of Shanghai, where average new home prices rose 21.9 per cent in December from the same month the previous year, the strongest growth among 70 major cities in China, the National Bureau of Statistics has reported.