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1. Business - Property - PROPERTY

   Chongqing presses on with cheap housing

   Posted May 25th 2013, 12:00am by Toh Han Shih

   ... Despite massive fiscal deficit, the city intends to continue to pour billions into the project that was launched by disgraced leader Bo Xilai Follow @SCMP_News Chongqing's ambitious programme of building affordable housing, launched by its disgraced former chief Bo Xilai, has fallen far short of its targets. Yet the city, which is running a massive fiscal deficit, plans ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1245414/chongqing-presses-cheap-housing
2. Business - Property - PROPERTY

   Mainland developers pay price for land acquisitions

   Posted Oct 02nd 2013, 12:00am by Yvonne Liu

   ... measures." Chengdu also recorded steep land prices in recent months. Terence Chong Chak-bo, the managing director of Centaline in Chengdu, said many plots were sold at levels close to current home ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1322392/mainland-developers-pay-price-land-acquisitions
3. Property - International - BRITAIN

   Banks relax lending on commercial property but find few takers

   Posted Jul 10th 2013, 12:00am by BLOOM

   ... a negative effect on the credit availabnle to the industry, the BoE said in April. Rising economic growth, if sustained, makes it more likely that vacancy rates will fall and rents will rise, lifting ...

   http://www.scmp.com/property/international/article/1278858/banks-relax-lending-commercial-property-find-few-takers
4. Business - Companies - PROPERTY

   Agents shut shops as curbs put sales on ice

   Posted Mar 21st 2013, 12:00am by Peggy Sito

   ... to curb prices. Chu said many of the association's members had started closing branches. For example, her company, Bo Fung Property Agency Group, has closed five branches since the end ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1195818/agents-shut-shops-curbs-put-sales-ice
5. Property - Hong Kong & China - LUXURY RELEASE

   Seven years, HK$1b put 21 houses on Tai Po's Yucca de Lac restaurant site

   Posted Oct 10th 2012, 12:00am by Peggy Sito

   ... Yucca chairman Lobo Law Ka-bo estimated the completed project was now worth HK$2.1 billion, promising a substantial return. Law said he would retain one house for himself and would keep eight ...

   http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1057109/seven-years-hk1b-put-21-houses-tai-pos-yucca-de-lac
6. Property - Hong Kong & China - HONG KONG

   Few flats available for HK$2m or less, except in Tuen Mun and Yuen Long

   Posted Oct 10th 2012, 12:00am by Sandy Li

   ... per cent, from HK$3,307 per square foot to HK$4,676 per sq ft as at October 7. A 359 sq ft one-bedroom flat in the Lee Bo Building was now on offer at HK$1.8 million, said Pun, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1057092/few-flats-available-hk2m-or-less-except-tuen-mun-and-yuen