China’s Funeral Industry Is Becoming a Real Estate Market
China’s Funeral Industry Is Becoming a Real Estate Market
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As China’s real estate model falls apart, it didn’t disappear—it shifted. As housing prices fall, a new market is emerging: burial plots. Cemetery land is scarce, tightly controlled, and increasingly priced like property. In some cases, a grave can cost more than an apartment. This episode breaks down how China’s funeral industry is being reshaped by real estate logic—from high margins and land scarcity to financialization and rising costs—and what it reveals about deeper distortions in the system.
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