Hong Kong private home prices climb to fresh highs in August

HONG KONG, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s private home prices climbed to a fresh peak in August, hitting highs for the 10th month in a row and extending gains to a 17th month, government data released on Friday showed. Prices of private domestic homes ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore home prices have bottomed, Hong Kong ‘crazy.’

Singapore property prices have declined for 15 quarters - the longest slide since data was first published in 1975 - as the government rolled out a series of curbs. Home values have dropped 12 per cent from their 2013 peak, while Hong Kong prices reached ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s spectacular property price rises this year

Hong Kong's housing market is the second best performer in our global house price survey, with residential property prices surging by 19.27% during the year to Q2 2017. This was in sharp contrast with the y-o-y decline of 10.51% during the same period last ... ( read original story ...)

More Hong Kong millennials into mortgage debt

Millennials accounted for 32 percent of total new mortgages in Q2 2017, up from just 19 percent in 2013. With the city’s sky-high property prices, more of Hong Kong’s millennials are taking up mortgages to get on the property ladder, reported the South ... ( read original story ...)

Mortgages to follow people into retirement

The fact that people may still paying off a mortgage when they retire is not "an ideal situation ... out an actual start date was a key move forward. MORNING BRIEFS - Hong Kong's debt has been downgraded by Standard and Poor's a day after its ratings ... ( read original story ...)

Energy leads U.S. stock indexes to a mostly higher finish

Lower bond yields mean banks have to charge lower interest rates on long-term loans like mortgages. Several health care companies ... the S&P downgraded the credit rating for China and Hong Kong. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.3%, while South ... ( read original story ...)