...Contracted sales growth accelerated further, and new-home prices increased in more major cities in August 2015. But new- home construction and land acquisitions fell further. The majority of Fitch-rated Chinese homebuilders reported strong yoy growth of contracted sales for the first eight months of 2015. Chinese developers' offshore bond issuance remained weak, in contrast to the recent surge in their onshore issuance, driven by the latter's funding-cost advantage and the low entry barriers to China's exchange bond market....