After the government ordered regulators to step in, property developers are now finding it very hard to raise debt or equity financing for developments; regulatory bodies have been told to stop issuances on the Hong Kong stock market, the Hong Kong bond market and in the Chinese interbank bond market; this is recently after a similar freeze on the Shanghai Stock Exchange; the crackdown is also looking to curb peer-to-peer transactions related to down payments; outstanding mortgage loans are at their highest level ever, $2.4 trillion in the first half of 2016. Source
