Tag: property

Hong Kong’s new justice secretary has been grilled over a controversy surrounding illegal additions to her home that has highlighted concerns about the rule of law in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Teresa Cheng faced intense questioning in the Hong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG – Lawmakers have been grilling Hong Kong's new justice secretary over a controversy surrounding illegal additions to her home that has highlighted concerns about rule of law in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Teresa Cheng faced intense ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese property companies are making a beeline for Hong Kong to raise capital, as one of the world’s best-performing stock markets offers an attractive alternative to the funding squeeze back on the mainland. Agile Group Holdings, a developer based in ... ( read original story ...)

Among the four developments releasing new flats on Saturday, the average selling price per square foot was highest at Babington Hill, due to its central location on Hong Kong Island. Nano flats sell for HK$3m as property prices predicted to soar 20 per ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is bucking the global appetite for alternative accommodation as hotels continue to dominate the local market, according to recent research. As part of Booking.com’s annual Guest Review Awards based on 140 million customer reviews worldwide, the ... ( read original story ...)

When property and casino magnate Lui Che-woo of K Wah Group obliged, I wondered if I would get straight answers. But that’s exactly what I got over a lunch of takeaway fishball noodles with Hong Kong’s third-richest man. A huge cultural difference ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong investors pumped record amounts into London office deals in 2017, adding to the large volumes of international capital which are forcing property transactions out of the capital into the wider UK. Transactions from Hong Kong accounted for over a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s beleaguered justice minister has at least one other property with three illegal structures on it, the government revealed late on Sunday night, hours after she dropped a strong hint of this possibility. Earlier in the day, Secretary for ... ( read original story ...)

Budget time is coming and it’s an occasion to look at the nexus between home prices, tax policy and income maldistribution in Hong Kong. Usually, these are deemed separate issues and dealt with in the piecemeal fashion of a bureaucrat-led government. ( read original story ...)

It is always difficult to predict when a bubble may burst, but the current level of prices in the Hong Kong residential property market suggests that there could be a correction in 2018, if not a U.S.-style crash. Hong Kong property prices have more than ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 17 January 2018 - RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) announces the finalists for the Hong Kong property industry's highest honours, the RICS Awards 2018 Hong Kong. The RICS Awards jury has shortlisted 35 ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG • Hong Kong's red-hot property market kicked off the year with hundreds queueing to buy flats in the first major property launch of the year yesterday, backing expectations that strong demand will further lift record prices by 5 per cent to 20 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s first property launch of 2018 got off to a roaring start, as Sun Hung Kai Properties sold all of its 188 apartment units at the St Barths complex in Ma On Shan, setting price records for the neighbourhood. Among the sales was a five-room unit ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong's red-hot property market kicked off 2018 with hundreds queuing to buy flats in the first major property launch of the year on Saturday (Jan 13), backing expectations strong demand will further lift record prices by 5 to 20 ... ( read original story ...)