Selling China Property as a Foreigner and Remitting Proceeds
Selling the property and remitting the proceeds are connected but separate files. Title, appearance or power of attorney, tax clearance, transfer registration and bank authenticity evidence must be sequenced.
Workflow guide
Confirm who can sell, who must appear and how the purchase funds entered China before promising closing or remittance.
Reconcile title and identity, determine marital or co-owner requirements, confirm whether personal appearance or a formal power of attorney is accepted, complete tax and transfer registration, and build the bank remittance pack from the authentic sale and original funding record.
Run the transaction in five stages.
City registration, tax and bank practice differ; confirm each window before fixing dates.
The property register determines the seller. Confirm whether the seller must attend and what notarised or apostilled power of attorney the local window accepts.
Do not use relatives’ quotas, underground matching or an invented ownership story to move the proceeds. Title, sale price, tax and funding records must support the seller and the requested remittance.
Complete the seller control sheet.
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Common foreign-seller questions.
City and bank practice can change the answer.
Must the foreign owner travel to China to sell?
Some registration windows require personal appearance or a tightly drafted notarised and apostilled power of attorney. Confirm local acceptance before relying on remote signing.
Can one spouse remit half if the property is registered only to the other spouse?
The registered title and sale documents determine the seller. Marital-property arguments do not automatically create a separate remittance entitlement.
Source station
Pair local property, tax and bank requirements with the specialist guides.
Open the page that owns the next file.
Tax and remittance should be prepared as distinct workstreams.
Property Sale Tax Clearance
Use for the seller tax file.
Open specialist route →02 · Bank routeRemitting Sale Proceeds
Use for the foreign-exchange and bank pack.
Open specialist route →03 · Ownership routeCo-Owners and Spouses
Use where title and family ownership differ.
Open specialist route →Escalate before accepting a closing date.
Title, authority, tax and remittance facts must be reconciled locally.
The seller cannot travelThe local registration office must accept the proposed POA.
Funding evidence is incompleteThe bank may question authenticity or remittance amount.
Title and family ownership differCo-owner, spouse, divorce or inheritance issues may affect authority and proceeds.
Educational information only — not legal advice. Laws, rates, deadlines and local practice can change; obtain current fact-specific advice.
