Property market in Hong Kong

Home buyers down after Hong Kong stamp duty rise

4 Mar 2013

Sales of existing homes continued to fall over the weekend, as prospective buyers stayed on the sidelines after the government doubled stamp duties just over a week ago.

Buyers pay price of confusing property curbs

4 Mar 2013

Hong Kong's famously "non-interventionist" government has intervened five times in the property market over the past five years to either raise or lower prices.

Property prices pose biggest risk to Hong Kong economy

21 Feb 2013

Just three months after Hong Kong rolled out a tough new round of property cooling measures, home prices have again climbed to record highs with demand unusually strong for new flats over the...

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Real estate - safe as houses, or overblown balloon?

18 Feb 2013

There has been a lot of talk about the housing market bubble in Hong Kong and that interest rates rises may precipitate a price collapse soon. I disagree and here's why.

Stamp duty keeping non-locals out of property market

16 Feb 2013

While observers believe it is too early to say for sure if the cooling effect was short-lived, they argue that locals buying through firms should be exempted from the tax, as figures show few...

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

After such a long wait, policy address is bound to disappoint

Poor old C.Y. I'm sure the chief executive had only the best intentions when he decided to postpone his first policy address from October to January. But by now, he has surely learned the folly of...

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Letters to the Editor, January 14, 2013

Beauty of New Territories being ruined

I couldn't agree more with Guy Shirra's points ("Scrap unfair small-house policy now", January 9).

I am so disillusioned with this policy and...

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Latest US easing prompts HKMA inflation warning

The latest round of US monetary easing has put Hong Kong's de facto central bank on high alert over the outlook for inflation as the prospect of more speculative money finds its way into the city'...

MONITOR TOM HOLLAND

Stories of HK$1m parking slots mean it's finally time to worry

Whenever anyone says that the Hong Kong property market is wildly overvalued and that the bubble is in imminent danger of bursting, I'm always reminded of Tony Dye.

Dye was a fund manager,...

Resale stamp duty fails to halt flat sales as profits keep rising

A special stamp duty intended to discourage the resale of flats within two years of purchase lost its effect after just 16 months, official statistics show.

Risk of property price bubble justifies new stamp duty

Our government should be given credit for recognising the dangers of Hong Kong's property price bubble and doing something about it.