Renting

Welfare recipient bids for judicial review over 'inadequate' rent subsidy

8 Sep 2012

Outdated government policy on rent subsidies is forcing the poor to live in inhumane conditions, according to one welfare recipient who is preparing to take the government to court to change the...

90 per cent of Hongkongers polled think home prices are too high

30 Aug 2012

Ninety per cent of respondents to a survey said they find home prices too high, while those polled also had mixed feelings about Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's housing policy.

Closing the book on a community institution

7 Aug 2012

There is only one store doing business on this street in Kwun Tong; the others are locked up - bought out for redevelopment by the government.

MIXED RENTAL SIGNALS

3 Aug 2012

The luxury leasing market is sending mixed signals with more rentals but falling rents. Figures from Ricacorp show transactions in June were the highest in 11 months, at 232. New Territories...

Students learn the perils of sublets

1 Aug 2012

Today marks the end of a legal tangle over a property lease for mainland student Zhang Mengtao.

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10pc of civil servants 'may have cross-leased'

Up to one-tenth of senior civil servants cross-leased their properties to gain as much benefit as possible from rental subsidies, a senior government officer says.

NEW lease of life

After a flurry of buying sprees in the first quarter of this year, backed by pent-up demand, sales have significantly slowed recently. But leasing transactions remain brisk as more people turn to...

High-end home rents falling

Demand for prime, high-end residential properties in Hong Kong is weakening, forcing landlords to lower their asking rents by as much as 20 per cent.

System for reviewing public rent under fire

Executive councillor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, who is widely tipped to be the next housing minister, said publicly for the first time that the mechanism determining public rent should be reviewed...

Rent rise formula sparks controversy

How much tenants should pay for public rental housing should be a straightforward affair after a revamp in the rent adjustment mechanism in 2008. The Housing Authority has adopted a method that...

Public tenants win rent waiver

The Housing Authority has decided to give public housing tenants a one-month rent waiver to ease the pain of a 10 per cent rent rise, but it says tenants should not take such relief measures for...