Sept 27 (Reuters) - Copper prices fell on Wednesday, as a firm dollar and concerns in the Chinese property market weighed on sentiment, but slowing industrial profits decline lent prices some support.

The most-traded November copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange fell 0.6% to 67,140 yuan ($9,191.22) per metric ton by 0602 GMT, and three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was almost unchanged at $8,092 a ton.

The dollar traded near a 10-month high against its major peers, making greenback-priced metals more expensive to holders of other currencies.

Meanwhile, troubles in China's real estate sector, which accounts for a vast amount of metals demand, have been weighing on metals prices.

The chairman of China Evergrande Group has been placed under police surveillance, Bloomberg News reported, raising more doubts about the embattled developer's future as it also grapples with mounting prospects of liquidation.

The Evergrande debt issue resurfacing has weakened the China recovery sentiment, said National Australia Bank analysts in a note.

Supporting metal prices further was the slowing pace of profit decline at China's industrial firms, which fell 11.7% in the January-August period from a year earlier, narrowing from a 15.5% contraction in the January-July period, thanks to a surprising surge in August.

China's central bank also reiterated its commitment to keep the yuan stable.

Sucden Financial said in a report that the next support level for LME copper is at $8,000 a ton.

LME aluminium dipped 0.1% to $2,241 a ton, nickel dropped 1.4% to $18,605, zinc eased 0.2% to $2,505, lead edged down 0.4% at $2,177, tin dropped 1.6% to $25,600.

SHFE aluminium rose 0.1% to 19,380 yuan a ton, nickel dropped 3.8% to 150,570 yuan, zinc declined 1.3% to 21,560 yuan, lead fell 1% to 16,625 yuan and tin 1.3% to 217,760 yuan.

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