The recent rise in domestic housing prices in defiance of real estate regulations highlights the need for the authorities to take more forcible and targeted measures to tame the speculation-prone housing market.

Figures released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics show that 53 of China's 70 monitored large and medium-sized cities witnessed a month-on-month price rise in November, compared with 35 in October.

As a barometer of national housing prices, Beijing witnessed a 0.6 percent rise in the price of newly built commercial housing in November from the previous month, according to the bureau's statistics.