China’s ‘rotten-tail buildings’: homebuyers in limbo for years with no home due to dodgy developers and red tape | South China Morning Post

A survey conducted this year found over 45 per cent of homebuyers in mainland China encounter unfinished building problems

Unfinished or ‘rotten-tail buildings’, as they are known in China, usually have no electricity, no running water, lifts that do not work and no sewage system