Faster approval processes, the need for more transitional housing and exploiting the Greater Bay Area advantages will be good for Hong Kong in the long run.

With infection numbers averaging in the mostly single digits this month, and business getting back to something resembling ‘as usual’, sentiment revolving around the property market has also improved, and in another display of pent up demand, sales have trended up

Like employers waking up to the potential of more work-at-home staff, people are starting to see the importance of rooftops and terraces as they spend more time at home, writes Victoria Allan of Habitat Property.

With every other kind of sale conducted via the internet these days, it was only a matter of time before real estate fell in line.

The Hong Kong market is going to move week to week rather than quarter to quarter for the foreseeable future. This is not to say the sky is falling and the rug is being pulled out from beneath us – it is just a matter of shifting priorities in what is shaping up to be a post Covid-19 world.

The threat to Hong Kong’s property market is far greater from the Covid-19 outbreak than Sars in 2003. But in these uncertain times real estate is seen as a much better asset than equities.

The city is in the middle of an economy larger than Russia, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia and Switzerland’s combined.

In 2018 luxury constitutes more than just price point, and size, it is also about location, authenticity, lifestyle and design