Li Ke put everything into his dream apartment but has no idea when it will be finished. Photo: Li Ke
China’s ‘rotten-tail buildings’: homebuyers in limbo for years with no home due to dodgy developers and red tape
- A survey conducted this year found over 45 per cent of homebuyers in mainland China encounter unfinished building problems
- Unfinished or ‘rotten-tail buildings’, as they are known in China, usually have no electricity, no running water, lifts that do not work and no sewage system
Li Ke put everything into his dream apartment but has no idea when it will be finished. Photo: Li Ke