In this May, the business boom index of national houses was 101.83, keeping the same level with this April and down by 3.28 points over last May.

    The sub-index of fund source of this year was 100.08, up by 0.73 points over this April and down by 6.65 points over last May. In the first five months of this year, the fund source of this year in real estate development totaled 775.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 25.5%. Specifically speaking, the domestic loan was 153.1 billion yuan, up 8.7%; the fundraising of enterprises was 258.6 billion yuan, up 34.6%; the down payment and payment in advance was 294.9 billion yuan, up 24.7%; the foreign capital utilization was 11.2 billion yuan, up 41.7%.

    The sub-index of developed land area was 93.17, down by 0.29 point over this April and down by 5.98 points over last May. In the first five months of this year, the nationwide land area developed reached 60.16 million sq.m., a year-on-year declined of 7.2%.

    The sub-index of floor space of buildings under construction was 102.90, up by 1.15 points over this April and down by 5.93 points over last May. In the first five months of this year, the nationwide floor space of buildings under construction totaled 1.063 billion sq.m., a year-on-year rise of 18.8%. Especially, the floor space of residential buildings under construction reached 821 million sq.m., up 18.3%; the floor space of office buildings under construction was 47 million sq.m., up 15.8%; the floor space of commercial operation buildings was 134 million sq.m., up 21.2%.

    The sub-index of floor space of vacant commercial houses was 103.89, up by 1.57 points over this April and down by 3.69 points over last May. At the end of this May, the floor space of vacant commercial houses registered 103.2 million sq.m., a year-on-year rise of 6.2%. Especially, the floor space of vacant commercial residential houses was 59.33 million sq.m, down 0.4%.

    The sub-index of real estate development was 100.09, up by 0.92 point over this April and down by 2.32 points over last May. In the first five months of this year, the nationwide investment in real estate development totaled 464.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 24.3%. Of the investments, that in the residential buildings was 310.4 billion yuan, up 21.8%. The investment in the economical residential buildings was 14.5 billion yuan, down 16.7%.

    The sub-index of sales price of commercial buildings was 107.11, down by 3.46 points over this April and up by 2.16 points over last May. In the first five months of this year, the average sales price of national commercial buildings showed a year-on-year rise of 8.9%. Especially, the average sales price of commercial residential buildings went up 11.3%; that of commercial operation buildings went up 4.1%; that of office buildings went down 4.6%.