Think Chinese home prices are high? Try buying a grave


Escalating home prices in China may be making it an ever more expensive place to live.

HONG KONG:  Escalating home prices in China may be making it an ever more expensive place to live but pity the sick and elderly: It’s also becoming an increasingly less affordable place to die.

Grave prices have outpaced home prices in every one of the past three years, according to Fu Shou Yuan International Group Ltd., China’s largest publicly traded operator of cemeteries and funeral facilities.

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