This study examines listed real estate companies in China from 2008 to 2023, focusing on the impact of debt financing costs and patient capital on corporate resilience. The findings indicate that increasing debt financing costs significantly suppress resilience, exhibiting a U-shaped dynamic trend of initially decreasing and then increasing effects. There is also a significant negative correlation between patient capital and resilience. In addition, patient capital has an important moderating effect on the relationship between debt financing costs and resilience, with different effects found b...