After a decade as someone else's tenant, the Bells, like a rising number of Americans, are finally ready to buy a home. Yet they're running into an obstacle that's keeping the national housing...
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17 Apr 2013
Prices sought rose 2.1 per cent this month from March to an average £244,706 (HK$2.9 million), the property-website operator said. In London they fell 0.5 per cent. Asking prices increased 6.9 per...
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12 Apr 2013
Preliminary figures from the Rating and Valuation Department's "Hong Kong Property Review 2013" report shows that 15,820 new flats will go on the market next year, 16.8 per cent more than this...
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26 Mar 2013
A turning point could come for the property market in 2015 with expectations of a significant increase in new housing supply at that time. That will no doubt be good news for first-time homebuyers...
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14 Mar 2013
I would not be in favour of land on which underused sports facilities, yacht clubs and camp sites are located being turned into sites for new flats.
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14 Mar 2013
A relatively small plot of land has recently become a site of contention between the government and Hong Kong Baptist University. The issue is symptomatic of problems in town planning, the land...
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Lantau was seen to have opened its gates to the outside world with the completion of the Hong Kong International Airport and the convention and exhibition centre AsiaWorld-Expo. Its developments...
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At least two of the building sites touted by the government as the answer to easing the city's housing problems are smaller than a tennis court, a conservation group has discovered.
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The message was spelled out by influential figures in the wake of his policy address, which put housing at the top of his administration's agenda. One of the short-term measures to increase land...
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As a directly elected member of the Legislative Council, my responsibility is to ensure the overall interest of the community and to help find workable solutions to urgent social and economic...
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Leung warned of a repeat of the failed "85,000 flats a year" target announced by then chief executive Tung Chee-hwa in 1997. By the time the new flats were ready, he said, the market would have...
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Last year, Hang Lung sold just 117 units - nine at the Harbourside in West Kowloon and 108 at the Long Beach in Tai Kok Tsui - at average prices of HK$32,100 and HK$10,600 per square foot,...
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