Tag: mortgage

Hong Kong’s securities regulator has revealed an unusual savings ... which puts the SFC in a position to review its options. With a mortgage on up to 50 per cent of the property’s value, the SFC can a... ( read original story ...)

While abundant liquidity has kept Hong Kong mortgage rates low--the prime rate has only risen once in the same period that the Fed hiked nine times--the more the Fed hikes, the greater the pressure on ... ( read original story ...)

In Florida, the non-seasonally-adjusted overall mortgage delinquency rate on all loans dropped 458 basis points from last year, to 4.31 percent. According to Knight Frank's latest Global Outlook Repor... ( read original story ...)

According to Knight Frank's latest Global Outlook Report, Hong Kong will retain its title as the world's most expensive office market despite rents being forecast to decrease in 2019. According to the ... ( read original story ...)

Mainland Chinese developers who arrived late to the Hong Kong real estate party are among the first to suffer the hangover. Property analysts are pointing at developers who bid lavishly two years ago ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong property agent on Monday admitted to driving so dangerously that his car mounted a pavement and severed the leg of a woman who was waiting for a minibus with her two-year-old daughter. The ... ( read original story ...)

Ironically, Hong Kong could most benefit from some economic planning a la Beijing. Since its return to China in 1997, the city that prides itself on free markets has not only struggled to evolve, it h... ( read original story ...)

A recent surge in demand for Australian property from wealthy Hongkongers and mainland Chinese could be dampened by the country’s upcoming elections, industry experts warned. Data from London-based Re... ( read original story ...)

Two of Hong Kong’s leading entrepreneurs Allan Zeman and Richard Li are developing a mixed-use project in Thai Muang, Phang Nga named Aquella. The initial phase of the development includes a par 72, 1... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s government has started cracking down hard on homeowners suspected of evading stamp duty that was imposed to discourage speculation and cool down the property market, taking two cases to co... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's overheated property market may be in for further cooling in the Year of the Pig with investors jittery about the global outlook, especially as simmering tensions between the United States ... ( read original story ...)

Other property consultancies released similarly gloomy outlooks ... dragged by factors that include Beijing's crackdown on debt and risky spending. Hong Kong is likely to keep its crown as the world's ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Ocean Park finally welcomed its first hotel since opening more than four decades ago. Prudence Lui checks into this much-anticipated property with her teenage daughter, and finds a destina... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has been deemed the world’s “least affordable” housing market for nine straight years, according to a major survey. Don’t be surprised if nine becomes ten. A decade of eye-watering growth pu... ( read original story ...)