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Dennis Lee
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How inaction sustains Hong Kong’s plague of subdivided flats
12 Oct 2024 - 11:01AM
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Nicholas Spiro
The View
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How Australia’s housing crisis opens door for eager Asian investors
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Nicholas Spiro
The View
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Why Fed’s rate cut won’t fix what ails Hong Kong or Singapore
24 Sep 2024 - 9:30AM
Nicholas Spiro
The View
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Why it’s good news Asia’s property markets are more transparent
16 Sep 2024 - 4:30PM
Nicholas Spiro
The View
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Why Taiwan is struggling to curb its tech-fuelled housing boom
9 Sep 2024 - 4:30PM
Alice Wu
Opinion
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Devil in the details in Hong Kong’s efforts to raise housing game
9 Sep 2024 - 9:30AM
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China’s home prices see biggest drop since 2015 despite efforts to revive market
New home prices in September fell 6.1 per cent year on year in 70 mainland cities, widening from a 5.7 per cent slump in August.
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Beijing declares property sector has ‘bottomed out’, pledges more support
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Hong Kong home-mortgage tweak creates ‘positive expectation’: Paul Chan
17 Oct 2024 - 6:39PM
Policy
China goes all out to stabilise vital property sector: as it happened
Housing minister held a briefing along with officials from the central bank, Ministry of Finance and National Financial Regulatory Administration.
17 Oct 2024 - 10:46PM
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Chinese Housing and Urban-Rural Development Minister Ni Hong leaves at the end of a press conference on the property sector in Beijing. Photo: Reuters
Business
Hong Kong eases mortgage lending restrictions to jump-start market
HKMA allows buyers to borrow up to 70% of a property’s value, with the aim of reviving the market where prices have declined by 6.2% in the year’s first eight months.
16 Oct 2024 - 7:37PM
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China Business
Data centres push Asia’s cross-border property investment towards 2-year high
Anticipated growth of 50 per cent will drive 2024 cross-border investments to about US$48 billion, according to Knight Frank.
16 Oct 2024 - 3:56PM
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Business
‘Studying in Hong Kong’ brand to boost demand for student housing
Chief executive pledges to turn Hong Kong into an international hub for postsecondary education, earmarks over 80 hectares of land for university town.
16 Oct 2024 - 2:59PM
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General view of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chief Executive John Lee has pledged to turn the city into an international hub for postsecondary education. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Property
Major Chinese developers see sales uptick in September bolstered by stimulus
Analysts question sustainability of gains given uncertainty surrounding the government’s plans for future stimulus.
16 Oct 2024 - 9:09AM
Business
Chinachem to sell Hong Kong flats at 2016 levels as recovery proves elusive
Developers still need to offer discounts as market purchasing power is still not sufficient, according to Martin Wong at Knight Frank.
15 Oct 2024 - 7:36PM
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Companies
Hong Kong tycoon Peter Lee looks for good karma in green investments
The Towngas chairman and devout Buddhist hopes to create a more sustainable future through his family office investments.
17 Oct 2024 - 3:32PM
Business
From Fila to Armani, brands snap up prime Hong Kong retail spaces
With rents as much as 65 per cent below historical highs, brands from Europe, the US and Japan see a chance to make a splash.
14 Oct 2024 - 8:30AM
Hopewell Mall in Wan Chai, set for a soft opening next month, and will have an occupancy rate of more than 90 per cent. Photo: Handout
Property
China stimulus lifts property sentiment in bigger cities; durability questioned
Growth in new home transactions during the holiday period was especially pronounced in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
14 Oct 2024 - 7:30AM
Business
Ambitious NWD growth plans under Adrian Cheng leave company with a big debt load
The litany of projects that Cheng oversaw as CEO of New World made the company one of the city’s most indebted property developers.
13 Oct 2024 - 11:04AM
Companies
Sun Hung Kai’s Cullinan Sky sees another weekend of brisk sales
Quantitative easing and a slew of economic stimulus measures from Beijing have increased buyer confidence, agents say.
12 Oct 2024 - 8:15PM
Business
Hong Kong to sell second logistics site on sweetened terms after feedback
The winner is to surrender 20 per cent of the floor space to the government to ensure its financial viability, instead of 30 per cent; plot ratio reduced to lessen cost.
11 Oct 2024 - 4:04PM
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The Hung Shui Kiu plot could be developed into a building with 388,685 square metres of floor space, CBRE estimates. Photo: Handout
Business
Mainland Chinese homebuyers drive property sales in Hong Kong
Buyers from the mainland accounted for 7,575 primary and secondary property transactions in the first eight months of the year.
10 Oct 2024 - 6:05PM
China Business
China property: stabilisation effort gains pace in Hangzhou, Chengdu
Zhejiang province’s capital lifts price restrictions for homes built on newly acquired land and cuts initial payments for new and used homes.
10 Oct 2024 - 4:48PM
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Spending
Why restaurants are replacing shops, changing Hong Kong’s retail landscape
The mix of tenants in malls and at street level is changing as restaurateurs pounce on slumping rents to expand, often taking the spaces left behind by retailers forced to leave during the pandemic.
9 Aug 2022 - 8:07AM
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Business
Magnate warns of tough times as Hang Lung kicks off results season
The comments by Chan showed how Hong Kong has been caught since 2019 by a series of turbulent events, including months of anti-government protests, US sanctions and a Covid-19 pandemic in its third year.
28 Jul 2022 - 9:08PM
Business
Hong Kong, mainland cities worst performers in index tracking home rent growth
Upmarket home rents in Hong Kong and Shenzhen declined in the year’s first half, bucking the global trend of increases among 30 cities tracked by property consultancy Savills.
3 Aug 2022 - 11:00AM
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Hong Kong’s Peak Lookout restaurant has rent halved as Covid wipes out tourism
The owners of the iconic Hong Kong restaurant, previously a huge draw for tourists with its prime location, are now paying less than half the monthly HK$230,000 (US$29,300) they were forking out on a lease signed pre-pandemic.
26 Jul 2022 - 8:36PM
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