Category: PROPERTY

Hong Kong may dig deep to reverse the city’s chronic shortage of land for building, adding underground caverns to the mix of options aimed at creating more housing in the world’s most expensive property market. It’s an option, according to a ... ( read original story ...)

A rare residential property with panoramic sea views in Kowloon, one of the three main islands in Hong Kong, has hit the market for the first time in over 30 years, asking HK$280 million (about US$35.68 million). Located on the northeast point of Little ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s banks, blindsided by rising funding costs due to the city’s costly defense of its currency peg, are clamping down on popular fixed-rate mortgages. These loans were provided at 1.68 percent for the first year of a new mortgage, lower than ... ( read original story ...)

Every week, Mansion Global poses a tax question to real estate tax attorneys. Here is this week’s question. Q: I am trying to get the full financial picture of buying in Hong Kong, where real estate prices are sky high. What is the property tax there like? ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- According to a legend passed around among Hong Kong's laborers, the city is protected by an invisible force field that keeps tropical storms from coming ashore during the workday. The source of this supernatural power, they say, is business ... ( read original story ...)

But Wong Leung-sing, associate director of research at the property consultancy firm Centaline, said the boom in nano flats was not an issue. “Many young people want to live independently and they prefer smaller flats,” Wong said. “Hong Kong is a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s housing market is not signalling the exuberance normally associated with a bubble, according to analysts, who say further price gains should be expected this year, even as starter homes have already become unaffordable for some young buyers. ( read original story ...)

Colliers International, a US based real estate service company, expects an 8 to 10 percent price growth for Hong Kong mass residential property and a 3 to 5 percent growth for luxury property market in 2018. Overall, Hong Kong property market will remain ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s dollar fell to the weak end of its permitted band for the first time since the range was imposed in 2005, a warning sign for a city where easy money has stoked a property boom and underpinned the stock market’s record rally. The spot rate ... ( read original story ...)

A 21-year-old man accused of carrying an air gun on a Hong Kong MTR train and stealing a police book on April Fool’s Day was arrested on Monday. The Hongkonger, who is unemployed, was detained at about 6pm after police raided his home in Sheung Shui. ( read original story ...)

The top 10 landlords in Hong Kong – who own about 40,000 property units among them – will benefit from rates waivers of more than HK$256 million (US$32.8 million) this financial year, reigniting criticism the government was once again favouring the rich. ( read original story ...)

“Even if all vehicles from Hong Kong and Macau were visiting Guangdong, we could manage,” he said. Leung, who is now chairman of property giant Nan Fung Group, also said the mainland should set up “trial international health care zones” for Hong ... ( read original story ...)

If economics is all about trade-offs, you are rewarded with capital gain on your property in Hong Kong, not improved quality of home life. But hey, at least you are rich, on paper. ( read original story ...)

Two of Hong Kong’s billionaire property moguls have set new records with the lofty prices they’ve paid for land at the city’s former Kai Tak airport. But in the world’s least affordable housing market, who’s to say they won’t come in for a ... ( read original story ...)