⁍ New home prices in China grew at a slightly slower monthly pace in September.

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⁍ Data weighed down by tightening measures in some big cities to curb a potential market bubble.

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⁍ On an annual basis, home prices rose 4.6% in September, versus August’s 4.8% expansion.

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– China’s new-home prices rose 0.4% in September from a month earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics announced today, which Reuters notes is “a slightly slower monthly pace” than August’s 0.6%. On a year-over-year basis, new-home prices rose 4.6%, down from August’s 4.8%. That’s in line with new-home prices in the US, which rose 4.2% in September from a year earlier, the Wall Street Journal reports.