中国新房价格在9月再次下跌，这标志着已超过三年没有出现月度或年度增长，表明政策支持尚未激发住房需求的广泛复苏。
China's new home prices fell again in September, marking more than three years without a monthly or annual increase, suggesting policy support has yet to generate a broad-based recovery in housing demand.
根据路透社对国家统计局发布数据的计算，新房价格环比下降0.1%，与8月的降幅持平。
New home prices dropped 0.1% month on month, matching the pace of decline in August, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.
同比来看，价格下降2.8%，较8月的3.0%降幅有所收窄，延续了自2023年6月以来的下跌趋势。
On an annual basis, prices fell 2.8%, narrowing from a 3.0% drop in August, extending a decline since June 2023.
房地产市场的长期低迷已成为中国最大的经济挑战之一，压制了消费者信心和地方政府收入。
The housing market's prolonged downturn has become one of China's biggest economic challenges, depressing consumer confidence and local government revenues.
该国最大城市的新房和二手房价格继续显示出企稳迹象，这可能得益于上海进一步放宽购房限制以及8月宣布的补贴等激励措施。然而，在较小的城市，新房和二手房价格仍继续环比和同比下降。
Prices of new and resale homes in the country's biggest cities continued to show signs of stabilisation, likely boosted by Shanghai's further easing of homebuying restrictions and incentives such as subsidies announced in August. In smaller cities, however, both new and resale home prices continued to fall month on month and year on year.
作为政策制定者试图提振小城市房地产市场的迹象，央行和金融监管部门在9月下旬推出了针对符合条件购房者的贷款利息补贴政策。
In a sign that policymakers are seeking to prop up the housing market in smaller cities, the central bank and financial regulator unveiled in late September policies for subsidising mortgage interest payments for eligible homebuyers.
该政策将符合条件住房的购买价格上限设定为150万元人民币（约224,417美元），这在一线城市甚至不足以购买一套一居室公寓。
The policy capped the purchase price of eligible homes at 1.5 million yuan ($224,417), hardly enough to pay for even a one-bedroom apartment in a tier-one city.
市场困境继续拖累国内需求，因为许多房主看到房屋价值下降，选择省钱而非消费。
Market woes continue to act as a drag on domestic demand, as many homeowners, seeing the value of their homes fall, opt to save money rather than spend.
单独的数据显示，今年前九个月，房地产投资和房屋销售均以更快的速度收缩。
Separate data showed property investment and home sales both contracted at a faster pace in the first nine months of the year.