Hong Kong police have charged two men with criminal damage to property, after they were arrested in June for allegedly disrupting the city’s organ donation register following controversy over opening ...
Former Man United star Gary Neville seeks buyers from Hong Kong for branded property units in Manchester
Former footballer Gary Neville is marketing to Hongkongers, flats in a 41-storey tower in Manchester that will be the first branded residences and five-star hotel in the city located in northwest England.
Factbox-China property rescue? Who are Ping An Insurance Group and Country Garden?
Chinese authorities have asked Ping An Insurance Group to take a controlling stake in embattled Country Garden, the nation's biggest private property developer, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing ...
Ping an Loses $2.1 Billion in Market Value, China Property Rallies on Country Garden Rescue Report
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China property stocks rallied and Ping An Insurance Group shares slumped to a one-year low on Wednesday after Reuters reported Chinese authorities had asked the firm to take a controlling stake in troubled developer Country Garden.
Hong Kong economy to grow by 3-4 per cent this year on slower-than-expected recovery in tourism and trade, finance chief warns
Financial Secretary Paul Chan says ongoing weakness in exports and fewer tourists in city have affected economy.
Danger still exists for borrowers, lenders in Hong Kong
Thanks to the US dollar currency peg, rates in Hong Kong should hold steady, too. That should bring some relief to long-suffering mortgage holders. Fed chief Jay Powell has described the US central ...
Hongkong Land’s Jardine House, iconic witness to 50 years of city’s development, celebrates milestone with exhibitions
Then known as Connaught Centre, the building was the tallest in Asia at 178.5 metres when it opened in 1973 but only held that record until 1974, according to Hongkong Land, the owner and operator of ...
Hong Kong property in double trouble after government rejects bids for Tung Chung site, deal flow in Oct at 7-year low
The Hong Kong government rejected all four tenders for a residential site, as they "did not meet the government's reserve price for the site" Hong Kong's property transaction volumes in October fell ...
Hong Kong student group alleges attempted forced entry of properties amid lawsuit over ownership
The Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) has filed a police report after suspecting that a group of unknown men had tried to forcefully enter two of its properties. The alleged forced entry took ...
Hong Kong’s Negative-Equity Mortgages Triple to 11,100 Cases
The number of negative-equity mortgages in Hong Kong more than tripled in September, a sign of continued weakness in the city’s property market.
Hong Kong sentences four to 2 years in prison for praising knife attack on police officer
Four former Hong Kong student leaders were sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for inciting violence after earlier pleading guilty to praising the knife attack on a police officer in 2021 as ...
Hong Kong housing: John Lee vows not to ‘target’ property prices, acknowledges conflicting interests of current, potential homeowners
People who haven’t bought a home are certainly hoping prices will fall, but those who already own property, on the other hand, are hoping prices will stay put,’ he says.
Hong Kong’s property prices won’t pop any time soon. Here’s why
Hong Kong leader John Lee this week eased the city's decade-old residential property cooling measures — but will it be enough to boost market sentiment?
John Lee policy address 2023: record 410,000 new public flats in Hong Kong, shorter waiting time over next decade
Lee also announced measures to help Hongkongers from the lower-to-medium income group to buy second-hand subsidised homes by extending the mortgage default guarantee of subsidised flats from 30 to 50 ...