china’s home prices are at risk of “meaningful downside” regardless of what happens to china evergrande group according to citigroup inc analysts in what would be a further drag on the country’s economic growth “it seems clear that even in an orderly restructuring the property sector in china is likely to face downside pressures” wrote analysts including dirk willer in a note dated thursday “while authorities try to limit lower real estate prices due to fire sales by evergrande by implementing price floors price controls typically do not work” the note was titled “a bear market in chinese property”