Deserted shopping malls, half-empty apartment complexes, abandoned construction sites.
These are all signs of the crisis that has gripped China's property market.
And also, an illustration of how dramatically the fortunes of this sector have changed in the last few years.
Homebuyers are afraid of not getting the home that they paid for.
The problems China have now are deep-seated structural ones.
I think the consensus is already that for China and for property sales may not go back to yesterday.
China's property market is in a bunch of trouble.
And because property is the single biggest contributor to China's GDP, when the property sector is in trouble,
the rest of the economy is in trouble as well.
To understand why the property crisis has happened now, you have to go back a few years.
In the early 2000s, there was an enormous construction boom here.
Skyscrapers, apartment complexes, they were going up everywhere.
There was this fundamental belief that property prices could only go up.
That belief has been shaken tremendously.
And when you speak to people now, there's a real worry that maybe what follows a boom is bust.
People can't afford houses now, they're very expensive.
If this bubble bursts, it will cause social instability.
The privatization of property that began in the 1990s created one of the largest explosions of wealth in the country's history.
China's housing stock was dilapidated and low-quality,
with many people living in worn-out dormitories or housing provided by their state-owned enterprise or government ministries.