80 brokers have signed up so far, and they pay for access to those rental-seeking grads.

According to Zhang Shuxiao, an estate agent at 21st Century in Xian, a large industrial city in central China: "there is no bubble here like there is in Shanghai or Beijing."

Roy, 85, now lives in spainand his son michael told bbcradio his family had been approaehed by estate agents withclients "who wanted a bit morethan a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy."