HONG KONG/BEJING, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Country Garden (2007.HK) has won approval from its creditors to extend payments for an onshore private bond, two sources said on Saturday, in a major relief for the embattled Chinese property developer as well as the crisis-hit property sector.
Country Garden was seeking approval from its creditors to extend the maturity for a 3.9 billion yuan ($540 million) onshore private bond in a vote that ended on Friday night.
China's largest private property developer had proposed to repay the debt in instalments over three years instead of meeting its obligations by Saturday.
Country Garden did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A default by Country Garden would have exacerbated the country's real estate crisis, put more strain on its onshore lenders and further delayed the prospect of a recovery of the property market.
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spiralled, Xie Yu, Kevin Huang, Li Gu, Sumeet Chatterjee, William Mallard
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HK, Reuters, Thomson
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HONG KONG, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai