Property Price

Roads paved with gold for property investors in Qianhai

4 Mar 2013

People who bought flats in estates a stone's throw from the Qianhai experimental zone quickly came to regret their decision. They kept doors and windows firmly sealed to shut out the dust and...

Briefs, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

China is looking to increase its share of the global commercial satellite launching business, targeting a 15 per cent share by 2020, a leading space programme official said yesterday.

Recession, high property prices not signs of market failure

28 Feb 2013

Live and learn. When I was in school, I learned in physics that there can only be one pivot in any pivotal operation, and I learned in economics that the pivot of market operations is price.

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How to make two problems worse with just one policy

25 Feb 2013

Anyone who has followed the headlines in Hong Kong over the last few weeks will know two things: one, homes in the city are blisteringly expensive; and two, the Hong Kong government has money...

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Stocks dive on fear of further tightening

22 Feb 2013

Mainland stocks posted their biggest single-day loss in nearly 15 months yesterday as skittish investors were battered by worries of further government tightening measures in the property sector...

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London calling with the same complaint about property prices

Just as Hong Kong is grappling with demand from non-local residents for homes and milk powder, Londoners are complaining about a similar spike in prices of property and daily necessities due to...

Individual investors drifting towards industrial property

Three months ago property investor Rainbow Chan, who is in her mid-40s and lives in an apartment owned by herself and her husband, invested HK$1.38 million in a 567 square foot industrial unit in...

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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PROPERTY

Hong Kong property bubble tipping point yet to be reached: HKU professor

While the government has warned of a property bubble, a professor of real estate says a tipping point for it to burst has yet to be reached.

Questioning development priorities

Kennedy Town was a near-paradise to me in 2009. It had the right mixture of Western-style shops, restaurants, pubs and traditional Chinese shops.

PROPERTY

Developers raise prices on car parking spaces

Developers are beginning to raise their prices not just for new flats but car parking spaces as well, as buying interest returns to a property market spared further cooling measures in the chief...