Category: PROPERTY

Cooling measures? What cooling measures?! If there were any, the property markets in Hong Kong and China do not seem to have noticed them. Developers in Hong Kong either have the financial strength not to be bothered by the lending restrictions or have the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong: Red-whiskered bulbuls start chirping around 5:00 am at Wonderland Villas, a hilltop complex in leafy northern Hong Kong whose own history charts the city's political, economic and social fortunes. Built in 1984, the year colonial power Britain ... ( read original story ...)

The usual suspects for Hong Kong’s sky-high property prices are low interest rates, a housing shortage and demand from mainland China. But there’s another unforeseen factor: divorce. Demand for separations and remarriages have accelerated sharply over ... ( read original story ...)

Risks in Hong Kong’s property market are now “very high,” according to the city’s financial secretary, who says local households could find themselves over-leveraged as interest rates rise. Speaking in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

Homebuyers appear undeterred by the increase in mortgage rates by Hong Kong’s biggest banks this week, snapping up over 95 per cent of flats from the latest batch on offer at Victoria Skye at the old Kai Tak airport site. Demand for apartments remained ... ( read original story ...)

If history is any guide,the long queues of property buyers at Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan residential project last weekend could be the harbinger of a bubble in the world’s most expensive housing market. Hundreds of buyers packed into Cheung Kong Property ... ( read original story ...)

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Property Holdings Limited's (CKP) Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer-Default Rating (IDR) to 'A' from 'A-'. The Outlook is Stable. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this commentary. ( read original story ...)

(The following statement was released by the rating agency) Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Hong Kong Banks 2016 Report Card here HONG KONG, June 01 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings expects tighter regulations on property-related lending to have a material but ... ( read original story ...)

Everywhere I look, I see giant apartment buildings under construction. No, it's not Sydney or Melbourne but Hong Kong. On this 20th anniversary year of the British handover to China, it's more evidence of how much Hong Kong shrugged off the sense of ... ( read original story ...)

June 1 Hong Kong's benchmark stock index finished on Thursday at a 23-month high, bolstered by property shares as Chinese money flowed steadily into the city's market. The Hang Seng index ended up 0.6 percent at 25,809.22, while the China Enterprises Index ... ( read original story ...)

If you speak to any Hong Kong resident, the conversation will invariably be directed to the subject of property prices. That’s no surprise given that earlier this year, Hong Kong was crowned the world’s least affordable city by research organization ... ( read original story ...)

Snaking queues of thousands of prospective apartment buyers in Hong Kong signalled authorities have made no progress in cooling a red-hot property market, where prices are at records. People were lining up last Friday and over the weekend at Victoria Skye ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese Estates Holdings, controlled by Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung’s wife Chan Hoi-wan, has become a big winner in China Evergrande Group’s share price surge, making a profit of more than HK$26 million (US$3.34 million) in just a ... ( read original story ...)

In terms of price per square foot, Henderson's purchase still held the record at about HK$50,000, compared to about HK$13,000 paid by Nan Fung at the Kai Tak site, said Denis Ma, research head at property consultancy JLL Hong Kong. "The price is a bit of a ... ( read original story ...)