The researchers then looked at the agents' property transactions over a seven-year period.
Property transactions remain at low levels and house prices have drifted down in recent months, according to various surveys.
Growth in property transactions in tier-one and major tier-two cities has moved into positive territory for the first time since the summer.
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But now, as property transactions fall, property prices will follow, say Lau.
The government said that tax policies would be tightened in property transactions.
Stamp duty did not apply at all to a quarter of residential property transactions, including on homes up to a certain price in deprived areas, said the spokesman.
Property transactions by floor space in some major cities, such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing rose in May from a year earlier, according to statistics from data provider China Real Estate Information Corp.
Since October the government has encouraged people to buy houses by cutting the minimum mortgage down-payment on their main home from 30% to 20% and by reducing stamp duty and other taxes on property transactions.
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If investors within a community begin to know each other and begin to establish informal standards by which they judge a property then these kinds of transactions will be able to proceed fairly rapidly.
While anecdotal evidence points to a boom in property sales, official statistics from January to August only record about 15, 000 transactions, while the number of property donations is twice that.
"The real issue for the property market remains the collapse in transactions rather than the necessary adjustment in prices, " he added.
The net effect of these transactions was to encumber the property with liens and mortgages.
No single individual (except, perhaps, Warren Buffett) can push up a company's share price by buying its stock at an inflated price, but the price of residential property is set locally by the latest transactions.
They include the cost to replace the property, a comparison of recent and comparable transactions and an income approach.
The market is up for this type of property, with a rise in the number of transactions, but not price.
The theorem says that the distribution of property rights, provided they are clearly assigned and transactions costs are low, has no effect on economic efficiency, because people can negotiate their way to the efficient position.
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Both countries face risks when it comes to protecting personal data and communications, financial transactions, critical infrastructure, or the intellectual property and trade secrets that are so vital to innovation and economic growth.
For this to happen, people must be willing to pay some taxes, be it property tax (subscriptions) or sales tax (a cut of transactions).
Higher property prices boost tax revenues directly, through levies on capital gains or on transactions (such as stamp duty in Britain).
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The data, compiled from a survey of property developers and real-estate agencies, followed a report by another provider on Wednesday that showed transactions were up in some major cities in late May.
Property development in India, most agree, is India's most shadowy business with a large number of transactions in illegal money on which no tax is paid.
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