A sign of Centaline Property is pictured at the company's office in Tianjin, China August 18, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Centaline Property has said its mainland China unit is owed a huge amount of unpaid commissions and so it cannot pay employees their commissions, responding to reports of delayed payments to the unit by developers including the embattled Evergrande. The Hong Kong property agency's mainland arm, Centaline Property Agency (Shenzhen), has not recovered some commission fees as property developers grapple with the debt crisis and liquidity crunch, Centaline said in a statement on Friday. "The current amount of unpaid commissions from developers and agents is huge and Centaline Property is not in a position to advance them to its employees," the company said. The Shenzhen unit has paid fixed salaries up to July, Centaline said, adding that all of units were operating normally and it would not withdraw from the mainland China market.

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Persons: Tingshu Wang, Centaline, Liu Tianyang, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Centaline Property Agency, Securities Times, Thomson Locations: Tianjin, China, Rights BEIJING, Hong Kong, Shenzhen