Category: PROPERTY

By not changing Hong Kong’s economic system, China has helped to generate extreme inequality, due largely to the extraordinary expense of housing. A coterie of tycoons with a lock on the property ... ( read original story ...)

A flood of potential property buyers from Hong Kong are approaching local migration agents, hoping to secure Australian residency ahead of buying homes in Sydney and on the Gold Coast. A Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA) posted a 75% slump in first-half net profit after it wrote down loans in China because of a downturn in commercial property markets outside China’s ... ( read original story ...)

The current unrest and chaos in Hong Kong may create more business and property sale opportunities in Penang, says Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. He said Penang had always been a destination for ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign investors, including those from Hong Kong and mainland Chinese, largely stayed out of commercial real estate in Vancouver, Canada’s second-largest investment market, in the first half of 2019 ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters gather in Admiralty, Hong Kong on Aug. 18. “If the project is appealing, the customers will come out for sure. This project’s location is ideal and the pricing is attractive,” said Tony Cho ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's property tycoons are hurting, the share market is tanking and the tourism sector has taken a beating as the pro-democracy movement continues to strangle the city. Hong Kong's richest ... ( read original story ...)

“The timing is right for us to focus more on Hong Kong, ” Ho said. Singapore-based property consultancy Savills’ research and consultancy executive director Alan Cheong said: “If someone whacks a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Mortgage rates are also climbing in Hong Kong as the political crisis weakens the appetite for loans. Both HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc increased effective rates by 10 basis ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - On a sweltering Sunday afternoon in Hong Hong's Sha Tin district, not long before police battled protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets in several locations nearby, eager ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong property prices have risen 300% since 2003. Beijing needs to stop consulting with property "tycoons" and take away their political power, Xie says. As protests continue to roil Hong Kong, a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is changing because of China but it will thrive after this violence ends according to local property tycoon Allan Zeman. He said “the media has made it look worse than it really is and the ... ( read original story ...)

The cracking in the facade of neutrality comes amid mounting damage to the Hong Kong economy and pressure from Beijing for public displays of loyalty. Being forced to take sides is unlikely to end ... ( read original story ...)

Weeks of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are battering shares in the city's property developers and pushing its benchmark stock index closer to a bear market. About 446 billion Hong Kong dollars ... ( read original story ...)