BEIJING and NEW YORK, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirin International Holding, Inc. (OTC BB: KIRI, the "Company" or "Kirin") celebrated the grand opening of its new Kirin Bay residential housing project on Saturday, April 9 in Xingtai, obtaining over $14 million in signed sales contracts from 189 homebuyers through Sunday. "We are off to a good start with the Kirin Bay community, after several years of redevelopment work to get the site ready for the city of Xingtai," said Kirin Chairman and Founder Mr. Jianfeng Guo. "We sold over 70% of the entire first phase in the two-day weekend," added Chairman Guo. Kirin is the largest private developer of residential mixed-use properties in Xingtai, North China's oldest city, and debuted on the U.S. public markets last month.

Kirin Bay is a three-phase, master-planned community built on a land area of approximately 660,000 square meters. Positioned as a mid-market residential development, Kirin Bay will also feature kindergartens, a primary school, hotel, office buildings and apartments. It is expected to provide Xingtai with over 5,500 new homes in total. The first phase calls for 250 residential units consisting of one- and two-bedroom apartment homes ranging from 50 to 130 square meters each at sales prices of approximately $650 per square meter.

Construction for Kirin Bay is expected to start in the second quarter of 2011 and completion of all phases of development is planned for April of 2015.  The first phase residences sold on Saturday and Sunday are expected to be delivered by the end of 2013 while the final phase residences are expected to be delivered in May 2015.  Kirin estimates the total development cost of Kirin Bay at $147 million, with an estimated ROI of 140%.

Kirin Bay is situated in a city-center location redeveloped by Kirin, where Xingtai residents formerly lived in primarily two-story dwellings, which were acquired over time by the Company and the new homes are now the subject of government grants.  There will be eight 26-story high-rise buildings and six single-floor villas in the new Kirin Bay community.

Kirin's projects are currently concentrated in the southern area of Hebei Province of the PRC, primarily in the city of Xingtai, approximately three hours south of Beijing, and nearby regions.  Kirin's real estate developments target first-time, owner-occupied homebuyers consisting primarily of young urban professional families and middle class clients.  According to Kirin, approximately half of Kirin's homebuyers pay cash for their housing units and another quarter of their purchasers make 50% down payments.  

The Company's home market of Xingtai demonstrates the real estate development potential of China's Third Tier cities: continued urban migration, a balanced and growing economy, the need for trade up housing from an emerging middle class eager and willing to improve itself economically, and much greater relative affordability than the PRC's First Tier and megacities.

In addition to its projects in Xingtai, Kirin has started gaining knowledge on property conditions and related land and development approval procedures in Shijiazhuang of Hebei Province and in Dezhou and Tai'an of Shandong Province, and the suburban area of Tianjin, all adjacent to the Beijing-to-Shanghai high-speed rail corridor.

CONTACTS:
Mr. Longlin Hu, President and CEO, Kirin China Holding
hulonglin@vip.sina.com
+86 186 3191 6611


Mr. Dan McClory, Managing Director, Hunter Wise Financial Group, LLC
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SOURCE Kirin International Holding, Inc.