By Martin Mou

China Evergrande Group's contracted property sales in July rose 24% from a year earlier to 50.3 billion yuan ($7.21 billion).

For the first seven months of the year, contracted sales increased 24% to CNY399.14 billion, the Chinese developer said Tuesday.

The sales growth recorded in July compared with 51% in June.

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