Teams investigating property markets in 12 provinces

China's State Council has sent six supervision teams to investigate the property markets in 12 provinces in an attempt to reduce the risks involved in making and taking out real estate loans.

The government has recently paid a great deal of attention to the real estate market's effect on banking assets.

In the foreseeable future, the China Banking Regulatory Commission is not likely to halt real estate loans and trusts, business industry insiders say. But controlling risks is still a top priority in the government's regulation of real estate financing and chances are good that the industry will be subjected to new rules.

Data from the People's Bank of China suggest that real estate loans were made more often in the first half of this year than in the same period a year before. By the end of June, 11.32 trillion yuan ($1.8 trillion) in real estate loans were outstanding in China, up 10.3 percent year-on-year.

That rate of increase was up 0.2 percentage points from the first quarter.

The first six months of the year saw the establishment of 327 projects involving real estate trusts.