Analysts said two interest rate cuts, relaxing lending restrictions and easier access to local government housing funds were behind the gain.
The real estate industry is one of the country’s main economic engines.
However, China wants to avoid sudden price rises, which could shut many ordinary buyers out of the market.
China is having to continually fine-tune its property regulations and policies to allow development while ensuring afford ability and steadier, longer-term price increases.
Last year, China decided to cool the property market, by making it harder for many banks to lend and more difficult for consumers to get home loans.
However, these policies may have proved too successful, and the worry now is that should the market and industry stagnate, then China’s current economic slowdown will either deepen, or take much longer to end.
“Some local authorities have ‘fine-tuned’ their property policies by allowing home buyers to borrow more from public housing funds, causing a rebound in home prices,” Zhang Dawei, an analyst at Beijing-based Zhongyuan Real Estate, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua.
Mr Zhang added that the moves by China’s central bank to ease its policies had also contributed to the pick-up in prices