China’s Property Sector Stalked by Evergrande Default Fears

China’s Property Sector Stalked by Evergrande Default Fears
The logo of China Evergrande is seen at outside the China Evergrande Centre building in Hong Kong on Sept. 23, 2021. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Debt-saddled Chinese property firms took heavy fire in bond markets on Tuesday, after the poster child of the sector’s woes, Evergrande Group, missed its third round of bond payments in as many weeks and others warned of defaults.

A wave of developers face payment deadlines before the end of the year and with Evergrande’s fate looking increasingly bleak, fears are mounting of a wider crisis.