May housing sales in 70 large and medium-sized cities rose 12.4%

Xinhua Beijing, June 10, according to the National Bureau of Statistics website News, May 2010, the country's 70 large and medium cities housing sales rose 12.4% Year-on-year, the increase is 0.4% smaller than April, the chain Rose 0.2%, or 1.2% smaller than April.　　New residential sales rose 15.1% per cent year-on-year, up from 0.3% in April, and 0.4% per cent in the chain, or 1% from April. Look, compared with the same month last year, the price of housing sales rose 1.4%; commodity residential sales rose 16.9%, of which the average residential sales price rose 16.3%, high-grade residential sales price rose 19.1%.　　Compared with last month, the price of housing sales rose 0.1%; commodity residential sales rose 0.4%, of which the average residential sales price rose 0.5%, high-grade residential sales price rose 0.2%. Second-hand home sales rose 9.2% per cent year-on-year, up from 1.3% in April, and 0.4% in the chain, down 2.1% from April.