Hong Kong home prices

Letters to the Editor, December 31, 2012

31 Dec 2012

Flats initiative a short-term measure

I was delighted by the government's announcement on Monday, December 24, that it planned to boost land supply [in the coming quarter] for the...

3:23AM

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Only way is up if you take the long-term view

12 Nov 2012

Two weeks after the government announced new stamp duties in a bid to hose down overheated home prices, the talk of the town is still where prices are headed.

9:01AM

What property can you buy for HK$4m?

6 Nov 2012

Grumbling about the city's soaring flat prices may be one of the most common chit-chat topics at gatherings these days.

2:09PM

Lai Sun rules out price cut despite new property tax

31 Oct 2012

Lai Sun Development has no plans to cut the prices of its new project in Yau Tong despite the 15 per cent additional stamp duty imposed on non-permanent residents and corporate buyers.

3:17AM

Hong Kong financial secretary's property moves seen as a bad idea

30 Oct 2012

I can understand the difficulty from Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah's perspective. He is a holdover, on approval, from the previous administration and his new boss has adopted a pro-...

9:14AM

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Hong Kong developers decline after investors sell on tighter home-buying rules

30 Oct 2012

Shares of Hong Kong property developers slumped yesterday on fears that tighter home buying rules will frighten cash-rich mainland buyers and cause a slide in property prices.

10:02AM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

Updated 4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

New stamp duty seen hitting sales volume and property prices

Property analysts were surprised by the announcement yesterday of a 15 per cent additional stamp duty on corporate and non-permanent-resident buyers of homes in Hong Kong. They said the levy would...

3:30AM

Chinese mainlanders buy smaller share of new Hong Kong homes

Mainland property buyers, once blamed for pushing up Hong Kong home prices, are accounting for a shrinking share of new home sales as local buyers return to the market.

8:18AM

Where now for the Hong Kong dollar?

Hong Kong's determination to maintain its exchange-rate peg to the US dollar has the confidence of currency-forward traders even as it fails to sway hedge-fund investor William Ackman.

4:19AM

MONITOR

'Strange and worrying' that Hong Kong government doesn't get it

The weekend's Sunday Morning Post carried a strange and worrying news article.

It described Anthony Cheung Bing-leung's struggle to understand Hong Kong's property prices.

5:29AM

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JAKE'S VIEW

Abnormal interest in home affordability

Hong Kong home prices are continuing to break records, while rents are rising at a slower pace and even dropping in some sectors, according to the latest figures. The difference in the trends of...

3:03AM

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HOUSING MARKET

Property prices in Hong Kong continue to set records

Hong Kong home prices are continuing to break records, while rents are rising at a slower pace and even dropping in some sectors, according to latest figures. The difference in the trends of...

12:07PM