China property stocks jump after Beijing proposes measures to lift troubled sector

China property stocks jumped Monday after Beijing laid out more support measures over the weekend to shore up the troubled sector.

While the Hang Seng Index was last down 0.4% in volatile trading Monday, the Hang Seng Mainland Properties Index rose over 2%.

China Resources Land was the top mover in the HSMPI, rising 7.6%.

Shares of other real estate developers also saw significant gains, including China Overseas Land & Investment and Yuexiu Property gaining nearly 7% and 6%, respectively.

Real estate was also the leading gainer in Mainland China's CSI 300, advancing nearly 5%, while the broader index was up 2%.

The rally came after China's Ministry of Finance outlined new policy measures focused on stabilizing the beleaguered real estate sector.

Senior officials said at a highly anticipated press conference on Saturday that local governments will be allowed to issue more special bonds to buy land and unsold housing inventories from developers.

This policy is designed to regulate the supply-demand balance in the land market, reduce idle land and alleviate financing pressures on local governments and developers, said Tommy Xie, managing director and head of Asia Macro Research at OCBC Bank said in a note on Monday.

This "represents another attempt" by the government to absorb the country's unsold housing inventory, Leonard Law, a senior credit analyst at Lucror Analytics told CNBC, but he suggested that it's unclear if there could be sufficient market incentives for local governments to carry cout these measures.

Investor sentiment may rise in the near term on the back of Beijing's policy focus, Law added, while cautioning that investors need to wait for more details on the implementation of the plans.

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