炒房

chǎofáng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to speculate in real estate
  2. 2 to flip property for profit

Examples

Tā kào chǎofáng zhuàn le bù shǎo qián.
He made quite a lot of money by speculating in real estate.
Zhèngfǔ chūtái xīn zhèngcè dǎjī chǎofáng.
The government has rolled out new policies to crack down on property speculation.

Tips

usage
The 'stir-fry' metaphor is alive in finance Chinese: 炒股 = speculate in stocks, 炒房 = flip houses, = trade crypto. The speculator is a 炒房 or 炒房 (organized buying group, often associated with Wenzhou investors).

Stroke Order

chǎo
fáng