Half mainland city home prices go up

The mainland's new home prices rose last month in more cities than the previous month, indicating the government will refrain from relaxing curbs on the property market.

Prices climbed in 35 of the 70 cities the government tracks, compared with 31 in September, according to data released by the statistics bureau today.

Prices fell in 17 cities, the data showed.

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