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Please don't compare prices by just converting directly to another currency. It's too simplistic. You have to take into account taxes, salaries, property pric

• roel_v 16y ago
  To a certain degree you're right, but when comparing economies that have roughly reached parity, a dollar to dollar comparison can give a rough estimate of the merit of valuations; and otherwise, it can be used to estimate the distance between economies. What I meant with my comment is that if the most expensive (? I'm assuming that here) real estate in Beijing is only a fraction of similar real estate classes elsewhere, the Chinese economy still has room to catch up with the real estate prices. It's not a particularly wise idea that the Chinese economy isn't up to par with the US and European economies of course, it just shows that maybe what is considered so heavily overpriced may not really be so in the medium term, if only the rest of the economy can keep up (which I doubt it can, but that's a different discussion).
  • joe_the_user 16y ago
    "over-priced" is always relative to supply and demand. When supply exceeds demand and there is no correction, the economy moves in a distorted and irrational fashion, preparing the way for larger corrections in the future. The parent had hard evidence supply seriously exceeded demand. What do you have in that department?