Home Price

BRICKS & MORTAR

Timing in the market can be hit or myth for buyers

14 May 2013

Is it the right time to buy?

3:33AM

Guangzhou developers must submit new home prices to city for approval

24 Apr 2013

To try to contain the fast growth in home prices, Guangzhou's Municipal Land Resources and Housing Administrative Bureau ordered developers and property agents to submit pricing for all new...

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Hopes for affordable homes in Hong Kong sure to be dashed

23 Apr 2013

Hopes are growing that official efforts to cool Hong Kong's red-hot property market may finally be working. Two months ago the government doubled the stamp duty it charges typical home-buyers to...

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Analysts expect steep fall in Hong Kong flat prices

23 Apr 2013

Hong Kong home prices will fall by as much as a quarter as a result of the government's stepped-up measures to cool the housing market and rises in bank mortgage rates, equity research firm...

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Flat prices soften as higher tax hits sales

22 Apr 2013

Cheung Kong sold the remaining 14 flats at One Kowloon West in Lai Chi Kok in two days after it added sweeteners on April 17, and a senior manager at a large local property agency said weekend...

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Further mortgage rate rise 'could cut home prices by 20pc in two years'

15 Mar 2013

Home prices in Hong Kong may fall by 15 to 20 per cent in two years following the increase in mortgage lending rates, an investment bank predicts, but some developers and bankers believe the...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Mainland home price rises accelerate

Prices of new homes rose in 53 of 70 cities surveyed, against gains in 54 cities in December, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed. Prices in seven cities remained flat, and those in...

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Home prices weigh heavily for couple at Wishing Square

Among the thousands of people who flocked to Fong Ma Po village in Tai Po on Tuesday to make their new year wishes were William Ko and his girlfriend. The couple, who are getting married next...

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When the slump finally comes, home prices could fall by half

I know this column has banged on ad nauseam about Hong Kong property prices recently.

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China housing prices forecast to grow 5pc through 2025, says report

The average home price on the mainland is forecast to increase to 10,224 yuan (HK$12,550) per square metre by 2025, up 105.16 per cent compared to the price in 2011, according to Jefferies Hong...

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IRELAND

Ireland's home prices in November rise at fastest pace in six years

Ireland's home values rose at the fastest pace in more than six years in November as the country recovered from Europe's worst real-estate crash.

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