"Two men row past houses built in a northern European style at the Luodian development in Huangzho, China.<br /><br />Bianca Bosker recalls from her own experience that many towns are ""eerie in their emptiness."" But she is quick to add that this certainly isn't a uniform trend across all developments.<br /><br />""When you go to other less well known copycat towns, many of them really are bustling and you see families and kids and a car in every garage,"" she said. <br /><br />""On the other hand there is a lot of speculation in China's real-estate market. There are a lot of people buying up a lot of property and holding on to it in the hope that the price will go up in the future.<br /><br />""As a result you have developers who are just building acres and acres with tons of people to buy it but nobody to live in it."""
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