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Sanya, a popular tourist destination pictured above on China’s southern Hainan Island, saw home prices jump 3.7 per cent in July over the previous month. Photo: SCMP

China’s runaway home prices defy gravity amid record gains in July

Homebuyers faced higher prices in July in a record 65 cities of the 70 cities surveyed by the government

15 Aug 2018 - 11:11pm More on China home price

Property prices in Macau, pictured, have been closing in on Hong Kong’s since crashing after the financial crisis 10 years ago. Photo: AFP

Could Macau’s home prices catch Hong Kong’s when bridge opens?

15 Aug 2018 - 4:29pm 5

Little things, such as clothes hangers made out of old water-pipes, a wooden ceiling and small paintings, coupled with modern elements, make even the smallest flats more homey

Co-living becomes quite the rage among Hong Kong’s young professionals

15 Aug 2018 - 7:56pm 2

China Evergrande Group has applied to begin selling in its 1,982-unit development at 8 Kwun Chui Road in Tuen Mun. Photo: SCMP/Edward Wong

Mainland developers at risk for losses in Hong Kong

15 Aug 2018 - 8:07am 3

Douglas Woo Chun-kuen, Chairman and Managing Director of Wheelock, attends Wheelock interim result at Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Central. 14AUG18 SCMP / Roy Issa

Wheelock sees clouds ahead as rate rise and trade war ripple through property market

14 Aug 2018 - 11:05pm

New Homes in Auckland, New Zealand. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo

Auckland’s house prices could follow Australia’s down

14 Aug 2018 - 7:34pm 2

Chinese investors are looking to Birmingham as an affordable alternative to London. Above, an office-commercial-retail project is being built in the city’s downtown. Photo: SCMP/Eric Ng

Chinese property investors pile into UK’s booming Birmingham

14 Aug 2018 - 8:00pm

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US proptech fund Fifth Wall attracts Hong Kong, Asian interest

Multinationals shift out of Central HK in search of flexible workspace

Buyers shrug off Hong Kong’s rising mortgage rates to snap up flats

China’s developers rise on reports of Shanghai cutting first-home mortgage rates

Appetite for China land plots drops the most since 2014

Swire Pacific profit dives 67 per cent, hurt by Cathay Pacific losses

Victor Li’s CK Asset wins Hong Kong’s costliest railway development

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China’s parents are heading to Thailand for schools and homes

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Other rivals however deny that they engage in such behaviour, saying they abide by rules set by the industry watchdog

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Fake listings are rampant in Hong Kong, property agent says

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 11:05pm 18

Young people are increasingly using mobile rental platforms to find a flat in China’s Nanchang city. Photo: Alamy

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China’s mobile platforms make renting a home cheap and easy

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 8:37pm

The British housing market is weakening after a three-decade boom amid slower economic growth, uncertainty created by Brexit and inflation that has outpaced wage growth. Photo: Bloomberg

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UK house prices on longest losing streak since financial crisis

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 7:34pm 1

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Prefabricated housing units being unloaded by crane in Amsterdam. Could they be part of the solution in Hong Kong? Photo: Tempohousing

John Batten

We need to get creative to fix Hong Kong’s housing crisis

14 Aug 2018 - 8:34pm 19

A ballot drawing ceremony for Home Ownership Scheme Flats at the Housing Authority Customer Service Centre in Lok Fu. Photo: Edward Wong

Chiu Kam-kuen

Subsidised housing should help families in need realise their ownership dream

7 Aug 2018 - 6:16pm 4

Our property prices are now the most expensive in the world. The average floor area of new flats keeps shrinking. Due to fears of property prices outstripping earnings, the masses have scrambled to buy flats, with the consequence of further driving up home prices.

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Supply shortage means home is where the hardship is for Hong Kong

4 Aug 2018 - 6:56pm 17

A mall in Hong Kong. The increasing presence of mainland China retailers and brands is expected to provide long-term support to retail rents in the city. Photo: Dickson Lee

David Ji

Market of 68 million shoppers unlocked for Hong Kong retailers

31 Jul 2018 - 7:17pm 3

Pictured during a Legislative Council Panel on Transport site visit to Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor in 2006. Photo: Robert Ng

Nigel Smith

How Tuen Mun rose from underdog status to future apex of golden triangle

24 Jul 2018 - 6:50pm 2

A sales assistant (on right) speaks to a customer at a real estate exhibition in Shanghai on April 30, 2015. Photo: Reuters

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Appetite for China land plots drops the most since 2014

9 Aug 2018 - 11:19pm 3

China’s yuan was trading at 6.8356 against the greenback on Monday morning, down about 10 per cent from its peak in March, an alarming state of affairs for developers who have recently issued US dollar-denominated debt. Photo: Xinhua

China Business

Yuan’s drop adds insult to developers’ injury as their dollar debts swell

6 Aug 2018 - 10:59pm 3

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Wheelock sees clouds ahead as rate rise and trade war ripple through property market

14 Aug 2018 - 11:05pm

China’s latest policy for deflating the property bubble merely buys time, instead of offering relief

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China’s latest remedy for the housing market is a bust. Here’s why

25 Jun 2018 - 12:41pm

Twin Repulse Bay town houses fetch US$127.46 million, snatching price record for south Hong Kong Island

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Twin Repulse Bay town homes sell for US$127.46m, a neighbourhood record

24 Jun 2018 - 4:09pm 6

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Hong Kong & China

China’s runaway home prices defy gravity amid record gains in July

Homebuyers faced higher prices in July in a record 65 cities of the 70 cities surveyed by the government

15 Aug 2018 - 11:11pm More on China home price

Business Hong Kong & China

Co-living becomes quite the rage among Hong Kong’s young professionals

Wednesday, 15 August, 2018, 7:56pm 2

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Mainland developers at risk for losses in Hong Kong

Wednesday, 15 August, 2018, 8:07am 3

Companies Hong Kong & China

Wheelock sees clouds ahead as rate rise and trade war ripple through property market

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 11:05pm

China’s parents are heading to Thailand for schools and homes

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 8:37pm 6

Business Hong Kong & China Community

Fake listings are rampant in Hong Kong, property agent says

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 11:05pm 18

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China’s mobile platforms make renting a home cheap and easy

Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 8:37pm

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Could Macau’s home prices catch Hong Kong’s when bridge opens?

15 Aug 2018 - 4:29pm 5

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US proptech fund Fifth Wall attracts Hong Kong, Asian interest

Multinationals shift out of Central HK in search of flexible workspace

A residential project in the Tseung Kwan O district of Hong Kong. Homebuyers could see mortgage rates rise for the first time in 12 years as early as September. Photo: Bloomberg

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The days of Hong Kong’s record-low mortgage rates may end soon

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International

Auckland’s house prices could follow Australia’s down

New Zealand economists believe Auckland’s housing market could follow similar trends to major Australian cities and see prices start to slip

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