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  • Oct 3, 2013
  • Updated: 6:25am
13 Jun 2013

Despite government efforts to cool the property market, land sales in China have surged in the first five months of the year, with record prices set.

2:18AM
7 Jun 2013

There are lots of reasons to see recovery in Ireland. Today's second look at Ireland demonstrates its desire to be the first country to leave the European rescue programme. Property is a key...

9:26PM
7 Jun 2013

The Irish property market collapsed spectacularly when most of Europe went into meltdown. Ireland was one of the “I”s in “PIGS” – Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Greece and Spain.

9:05PM
4 Jun 2013

The small-house policy is now becoming more like a tool for developers to grab land and build houses for sale rather than a policy for villagers to build their own houses.

1:58AM
17 May 2013

Passions were running high last Saturday as government officials met the public for the second stage of consultation on reclamation in Hong Kong waters.

3:17AM
7 May 2013

What does the word "temporary" mean to you? In the case of the small-house policy, it means 40 years and more. It was first introduced in Hong Kong as a temporary measure to address housing needs...

2:23AM

There are many good reasons to buy a new, not second-hand, home in China. Every time I talk to property investment expert Chris Dillon I glean something new.

1:08PM

So, London’s reputedly most expensive mansion has been trumped by London’s even more expensive mansion.

12:56PM

Hongkongers who are tired of mainland buyers driving up local property prices may want to flip the situation and buy real estate across the border.

2:28AM

Homebuyers who turned up to select a subsidised flat from a Tsing Yi project that went on sale yesterday found that it wasn't just the cheap homes in hot demand - so was their business.

4:33AM

The photograph was published by writer Liang Hong on microblogging platform Sina Weibo on Sunday. She commented in the post under the photo: “A bunch of brand-new prisons without space or privacy…...

9:05PM

The city has identified 18 vacant school premises for possible rezoning in the government's latest search for more land to ease the housing shortage. Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor...

4:03AM

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