watch nowChina's property market has still not found a bottom despite all the turmoil in the past year, according to Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters.
Speaking to CNBC's JP Ong, Winters described the investing environment in China as "difficult," explaining that consumer confidence and international investor confidence was relatively low.
"We know that the underlying source of a lot of the confidence questions is the property market, and the property market has not yet completely bottomed out, so it's been a slow grind down," he added.
The danger, he said, is that a property market bubble that bursts in other markets has usually portended a financial crisis, and that is normally accompanied with more significant falls in GDP.
As such, he thinks that it will be a bit uncomfortable in the short term, but fiscally, "that's going to be a good thing."
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