Shenyang's home price rose 0.1%

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    ore major  cities  in China  saw  
    home  prices  rise  in  June  from  
    May,  as  the  country's  property sector has  showed  signs of warming  following  government  efforts  to  stimulate the  slowing  economy,  official  data showed Wednesday.
        In  June,  25  cities,  drastically  up from  six  in May, out of a  statistical pool of 70 major  cities  recorded higher new home prices  than  in  the previous month, the National Bureau of  Statistics  （NBS） said  in a  statement.
       Twenty-one  cities  saw  drops  in new home prices  last month, down  from 43  in May, while prices  in 24 cities  remained  the  same,  according  to  the NBS data.
        It marked  the  first  time  since September 2011  for  the number of cities with price  increases  to exceed  the number of cities  that experienced drops,  although  the  rises  in  the 25 cities were all less  than 0.6 percent.
        "China's  efforts  to  control  the property  sector are  still  in a crucial  stage and  the  task  remains  arduous,"  said Ma Xiaoming, a  senior NBS  statistician.
       He  attributed  the price  rises  to  recent  interest    On  a  year-on-year  basis,  new home  prices  continued  the  downward trend, with  57  cities out of  70  seeing prices  decline  in  June,  expanding  from 55  in May,  the NBS data  showed.  
     New home price  fell 0.8 percent on  annual basis,  a drop  ranked  at 17th in  the  70  cities. This  is  the  second month  in a  row  that  the city  saw home price  shrink. And Wenzhou  （15.8 percent）, Hangzhou  （9.8 percent）, Ningbo （8  percent）,  Jinhua  （6.3  percent）  and Qingdao  （4.3 percent）  saw  the biggest decrease  in housing price.      
       Despite month-on-month  rebounds in  some cities,  the government's property controls  have  produced  obvious  results and  effectively  curbed  the  rising momentum of home prices, Ma  said.
       He  urged  continuing  the  property controls  unswervingly  and making  it  a long-term policy  to curb  speculative and investment demand.