Only 0.6% of offshore debt recovered from China’s property developers

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International bondholders have recovered less than 1 per cent of nearly $150bn of bonds defaulted on by China’s property developers since 2021, despite years of negotiations and nearly a dozen restructuring agreements.

Just $917mn in cash has been transferred to investors in offshore bonds across 62 developers in that period, according to an analysis of…