Blog Tag - Housing

The Winter is Coming, The Heater is Growling: Things You Need To Know About Nuan Qi
It feels like the capital has jumped forward in time this past week. With drastic temperature drops and snow fall spotted on the tips of mountains in...
More Than Expensive: Room Tour to Some of The Most Luxurious Mansions in Beijing
It is fairly common for people to make purchases online nowadays, from snacks to apparel and toys to skincare products, the internet has everything...
R Guidelines: Landlords Should Offer a Grace Period When a Lease Expires During Outbreak
In light of the coronavirus outbreak, complexities in Beijing’s apartment rental market was inevitable as renters deal with issues like unexpected...
Beijing Outlaws Overcrowding in Rental Housing, Leaving Thousands Out of a Home
Online reports indicate that the Beijing municipal government is taking new steps to formalize and regularize rental agreements. While these rental...
Let Ziroom Take the Stress out of Your Beijing Rental Experience
In a recent blog, we detailed all the many places you can check out and channels you can leverage to find an apartment in Beijing but based on...
A Complete Guide to Renting an Apartment in Beijing
The task of finding an apartment to rent in any big city, especially if you’re new, is not to be sniffed at and in Beijing, in particular, it can...
Property Prices and Pollution Drag Beijing Down to Second Last Place on New Quality of Life Index
When it comes to living the good life, it looks like Beijing still has a long way to go. A new survey by Deutsche Bank Research, the eighth that the...
Fake Online Apartment Rental Listings Proliferate Despite Government Crackdown
Despite government instructions to remove misleading listings, online housing rental platforms including 58.com (58同城), Anjuke (安居客), and Fang.com (...
Trending this Week: Disappearing Share Bikes, Skyrocketing Rent, and a Crackdown on Perverts 
A wrap-up of the top stories and hashtags Beijingers have been discussing on Chinese social media this week, exclusively for the Beijinger by What’s...
How to Avoid Getting Evicted in the Latest Round of Housing Demolitions
This summer’s Great Brickening has hit home – or, more precisely, homes. The tragic fire in Daxing last weekend seems to have accelerated the Beijing...
Stat: Last Year Beijing's Average Rent Per Square Meter Was RMB 71.24
Last year’s data from Diyi Caijing puts Beijing’s average rent in the not-so-desirable spotlight as China’s highest. The average rent per month, per...
Swedish Expat Transforms His 10sqm, RMB 400 per Month Beijing Dump Into a Cozy Apartment
If squeezing yourself, and all your stuff, into a claustrophobia-inducing 10-square-meter basement apartment sounds like a nightmare, then prepare to...
My Beijing Landlord Fought The Law, But The Law Won
One of the most annoying frustrations about life in China when I first moved to Beijing was that electricity needed to be pre-loaded on to our house...
Open Letter to a Landlord
  Dear Landlord,   Hi, it’s me. You know, that guy who for the past ten months made sure your apartment remained in good working order and even did...
China's Priciest Lot Sold in Beijing For Billions
Luxury housing in Beijing just got more luxurious. A holding company bought China's most expensive plot of land, according to Bloomberg News, and...