大开发商缺席上海房地产博览会

Participants in China’s real estate market all seem to be taking a wait and see attitude now. Developers are hoping for a rebound in home prices while potential buyers are still waiting for that reasonable level Premier Wen spoke of at a press conference following the annual NPC session.
中国房地产市场的参与者现在似乎都在等待，呈观望态势。开发商希望房价反弹，而潜在买家则仍在等待合理的水平。温总理在全国人大会议后的一场新闻发布会上谈及此事。

Despite signs of a cooling market, there’s plenty warmth at this year’s Spring Real Estate Exhibition in Shanghai. Attendees were overwhelmed by a diversity of choices, with about 300 real estate projects on display. But leading property developers, including China Vanke, Gemdale and Greenland, were absent.
虽然市场有冷淡的迹象，但是，在今年的上海春季房展会上，还是感受到许多的温暖。参加者被各种各样的选择以及展示的约300个房地产项目淹没了。但是，包括万科、金地、绿地在内的主要房地产开发商都缺席了。

Zhong Gang, exhibition manager, said, "The big developers are loaded with reserve capital, so at this juncture they have the ability to act more conservatively than the smaller developers."
展会经理Zhong Gang称：“大的开发商受储备资本的重压，所以在这个节骨眼上，他们比更小的开发商有能力更加慎行。”

While most developers at this exhibition had to resort to discounts to win over customers, that wasn’t true for out-of-town projects and their developers who are boasting about their own competitive edge.
在展会的大多数开发商必须借着打折来赢得消费者的支持的时候，外地项目和它们宣扬竞争优势的开发商却不是这样。

Real estate staff from Shandong province, said, "Unlike in Shanghai, there’s no limit on how many houses you can buy in our city. And mortgages are easier to obtain."
来自山东省的房地产职员表示：“和上海不一样，在我们城市，你买多少套房子是没限制的。而且很容易获得抵押贷款。”

Also attracting attention are real estate companies aiming to sell homes located overseas. Ma Feifei, real estate project manager, said, "Purchasing overseas properties as a way to finance children’s education overseas has become more and more popular among parents in China."
销售海外房产的房地产公司也吸引了人们的注意。房地产项目经理Ma Feifei称：“作为为孩子的海外教育提供资金的一种方式，购买海外房产在中国父母当中变得越来越受欢迎。”

You can certainly see signs of a recovery in the sentiment among both real estate developers and potential home buyers at this exhibition, but whether that will translate into a notable rebound in transactions in the long run remains to be seen.
在本次展会上，你可以清楚地看到房地产开发商和潜在买家在态度上的改善，但是那是否能转变成交易上一种长期的显著反弹还尚待分晓。