Roger Luk

New residential buildings rise in the Tai Kok Tsui district (background) of the Kowloon peninsula. Photo: Roy Issa

Companies

Tightened mortgage rules may have done more harm than good

10 Feb 2018 - 11:26am 9

A record price for a home in Asia was set this month after two apartment units at Mount Nicholson (top right), a luxury housing development on The Peak in Hong Kong, were sold for HK$1.16 billion (US$149 million) to a single buyer. Hong Kong’s skyrocketing housing prices are a result of market distortions and irregularities, particularly in mortgages. Photo: AFP

Insight & Opinion

Why Singapore’s housing model won’t work in Hong Kong

27 Nov 2017 - 8:20pm 22

Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund has a case to answer in its defence of the dollar’s peg

Banking & Finance

Exchange Fund has a case to answer in its defence of the dollar peg

26 Jan 2018 - 4:14pm

Solar panels used to power walkway lights are positioned along the Marina Bay overlooking the skyscrapers of Singapore in April last year. Singapore’s efficiency ratio on innovation is below the global average, and it is not a good example for Hong Kong to mirror. Photo: AFP

Insight & Opinion

Hong Kong needs to change its attitude to lead innovation race

22 Aug 2017 - 7:06pm 2

The city of Shenzhen is seen across Deep Bay in Lau Fau Shan, Hong Kong. Hong Kong started as a free port for Chinese trade, but today it is an offshore renminbi hub. This evolution reflects its traditional “connector” role giving way to that of a “financier”. Photo: EPA

Insight & Opinion

Hong Kong has an unbeatable edge as China’s ‘financier’

8 Aug 2017 - 8:08pm 2

Victor Zheng and Roger Luk say the government’s control measures, which are meant to favour end users, are in fact working at cross purposes due to the over-regulation of mortgages. As a result, the secondary market is stagnant and unable to match supply with demand to moderate prices

Insight & Opinion

Why Hong Kong is failing to rein in housing prices

22 Feb 2017 - 7:32pm 17