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Potential buyers view a model of an apartment complex at the sales office of CK Asset’s LYOS housing development, in November 2021. Photo: Edmond So

Letters | Hong Kong property: education needed to keep mainland Chinese buyers coming

Readers discuss property developers becoming more aggressive in pursuing recompense for cancelled transactions, and the city’s cryptocurrency ambitions.

Elder scion of Hong Kong’s wealthiest clan mulls a family office

Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison ends Italian telecoms joint venture with Sweden’s EQT

Hong Kong homebuyers flock to discounted new home sales over the weekend

Homebuyers in Hong Kong have continued to flock to projects that offer them best value for their money, with CK Asset Holding selling almost all units in the latest batch of its Coastline project on Sunday.

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A model of the Coastline residential project being developed by CK Asset Holdings. Photo: Bloomberg

Developers entice Hong Kong homebuyers with discounts in weekend sale bonanza

Most of the new units on Saturday came from Villa Garda III in Tseung Kwan O, which sold 73 of the 138 put up for sale.

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Analysis | ‘Always the first’: CK Asset’s history of foretelling property slumps

‘As a developer you want your money back as soon as possible, and also to get a profit,’ an expert says. It’s advice the flagship developer of billionaire Li Ka-shing has long held close to its heart.

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CK Asset’s Yau Tong launch sells out as crowds thronged show room

Hong Kong’s powerful guild of property developers allayed fears of a price war in the home market.

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Buyers of Coast Line II apartments in Yau Tong at CK Asset Holding’s sales office at Fortune Metropolis in Hung Hom on 12 August 2023. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Li Ka-shing’s flagships see profits plunge as high interest rates take a toll

CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings, the two flagship companies of Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing, reported a drop in their first-half earnings, as the high interest rate environment continued to pile pressure on businesses in the city.

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CK Hutchison, Vodafone to merge units to form UK’s biggest mobile provider

Vodafone will own 51 per cent of the joint venture, which will combine its domestic mobile business with CK Hutchison’s Three UK operations and create Britain’s largest mobile provider in a deal worth US$15.7 billion.

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Victor Li says government has to ‘make the numbers work’ for Lantau project

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has said the government will push ahead with moves to increase land supply as high housing prices remain an issue.

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Rendered illustration of three artificial islands project at Lantau. Photo: Handout

CK Hutchison to form new Italian telecoms company with Sweden’s EQT

CK Hutchison’s Wind Tre will transfer its active network equipment and wholesale mobile and wholesale fixed communications services business in Italy to the new company, which will have an enterprise value of US$3.7 billion.

A 3 Italia mobile phone store, operated by CK Hutchison Holdings, in Rome. Photo: Bloomberg

Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset makes offer for London-listed Civitas Social Housing

Civitas owns specialised supported housing and residential care houses in the UK and CK Asset sees it as a complentary asset.

Hong Kong’s homebuyers return after banks kept rates steady

The long queues were a welcomed sight for Hong Kong’s developers and agents, as rising rates combined with the Covid-19 pandemic to knock the city’s property bull market off its footing.

Chinese, Hong Kong businesses sweat fallout of a diminished British pound

From Li Ka-shing’s empire to an office tower bought by James Tien Pei-chun’s Manhattan Garments Group, the whipsawing British pound could draw blood from some of Hong Kong and China’s biggest businesses.

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CK Asset leans on tumbling pound to sell new London luxury project

CK Asset launches the first 20 units of its Powerhouse development in Kensington and Chelsea amid Sterling’s recent plunge.

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CK Asset’s Powerhouse luxury property project in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Photo: Handout

CK Asset sells Hong Kong luxury project to Singapore fund for US$2.6 billion

The buyer, LC Vision Capital 1, is an offshore fund founded by Sino Suisse Capital, a closely held money manager run by Albert Liu.

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Glut of new prime Hong Kong office space could further depress rents

With 2.8 million sq ft of new prime space hitting the market this year, supply will reach a level not seen since 2008 and is set to expand further in the next two years, consultant Cushman & Wakefield says.

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Li Ka-shing’s developer unveils ‘glass curtain’ design of new skyscraper

The redevelopment of Hutchison House will add 550,000 square feet of prime office space – about the size of 10 football fields – in Hong Kong’s main business zone of Central.

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Artist’s impression of the Cheung Kong Center II, which will be a new prime office tower in Central. Photo: SCMP Handout

Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison, CK Asset post first-half earnings increases

CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings, the two flagship companies of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man, reported increases in their first-half results on Thursday, despite a “worrisome” Covid-19 situation in mainland China and Hong Kong.

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CK Asset bids for Evergrande’s Hong Kong tower in lifeline for developer

The 26-storey tower, bought by Evergrande for HK$12.5 billion (US$1.61 billion) in 2015, is one of the key assets marked for disposal by the distressed Shenzhen-based developer.

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Tuen Mun site bids rejected as premiums come below reserve price

The Hong Kong government rejected all five bids received for a 1.3 million square feet residential site in Tuen Mun, as all tenders came in below the reserve price.

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The bids received for lot 561 in Tuen Mun fell short of the government’s minimum price expectation. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

BitMEX lays off a quarter of its global staff amid business revamp

Work-from-home operations may leave BitMEX with a smaller real estate need, putting its Cheung Kong Center lease into question when it is due for renewal next year, a source said.

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BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange.

Li family’s flagships beat earnings forecasts with assets, discipline

The conglomerate, with businesses touching almost every aspect of the average Hongkonger’s life, said it was able to pull through the pandemic because of its “financial discipline, resilience and agility.”

Hong Kong analysts slash forecasts in home prices as Covid-19 bites

Property developers, who usually conduct their sales campaigns on weekends, have deferred the launch of new projects until the second quarter, when the current Covid-19 outbreak is expected to recede.

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CK Asset sells London office block to Korean pension fund for US$1.6 billion

CK Asset Holdings bought 5 Broadgate, the London headquarters of UBS, with proceeds from the sale of The Center office tower in Hong Kong.

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CK Asset on Friday said that it had sold the 5 Broadgate office building next to Liverpool Street railway station in London. Photo: Handout

Victor Li’s UK power asset attracts bidders in potential billion-dollar deal

The preliminary expression of interest has yet to be ‘properly analysed’, Victor Li companies say.

Close up of a flag outside the Cheung Kong Center photographed in Central. Photo: SCMP / Dickson Lee

CK Asset unit wins To Kwa Wan residential site for US$767 million

Centenary Investments Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CK Asset Holdings, won two adjoining sites about eight minutes walk to the To Kwa Wan MTR Station for HK$5.99 billion (US$767.3 million), the Urban Renewal Authority said. The price was lower than the market expectation of HK$6 billion to HK$6.8 billion.

Hong Kong’s ‘Superman’ tops Forbes’ list of city’s 50 top tycoons

Half of Hong Kong’s 50 top multibillionaires actually became richer last year, as their fortunes grew in defiance of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Cheung Kong
長江企業控股有限公司
Hutchison Whampoa, one of Hong Kong’s largest listed companies, is controlled by Cheung Kong Group, a property company. Hutchison's operations span ports, property and hotels, retailing, power generation and telecommunications.
Chairman / President
LI Tzar Kuoi
CFO / Finance Director
Frank John SIXT
Industry
Conglomerate
Website
ckh.com.hk
Headquarters address
Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Stock Code
SEHK: 1
Year founded
1950s
last updated:
27 August, 2024
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