Westamerica Bancorporation, a Californian lender, was lambasted for backing away from high-yielding property loans and allowing its portfolio to shrink.
Ping An and other insurers are also expected to benefit when China's insurance regulator allows them to place more of their investments into higher-yielding assets like equity and property.
So far 30% of that region has been explored, yielding estimates (just for that portion of the property) of 64 million ounces of silver and 756, 000 ounces of gold.
One of the reasons the China real estate market is so hot is because wealthy Chinese are buying up property to hold onto real assets, rather than put money in low yielding bank bonds and volatile equities.