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Concrete Analysis Victoria Allan

The shifting face of luxury property in Hong Kong

16 Oct 2018 - 7:18pm 2

Inside Out David Dodwell

Tackling colonial policy may help ease Hong Kong housing shortage

15 Oct 2018 - 4:09pm 13

Nicholas Brooke

Concrete Analysis Nicholas Brooke

Hong Kong needs to free up underutilised property for housing

9 Oct 2018 - 7:28pm 2

Concrete Analysis Chris Harvey

Asians still viewing London as property investment hotspot

2 Oct 2018 - 7:17pm 4

More on Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong economy

Lam denies policy to drive up cost of land in city after Peak site goes unsold

17 Oct, 4:22pm 25

Letters

Why build a fake island when China has so much land?

17 Oct, 6:15am 3

Letters

Pro-reclamation or not, Andy Lau deserves better from Hong Kong

17 Oct, 4:59am 1

Society

Affordable housing sale draws record number of applicants

17 Oct, 1:45am 5

Companies

Hong Kong scraps sale of The Peak plot as bids failed to meet target

17 Oct, 5:42pm 44

More on Hong Kong land sale

Companies

Hong Kong scraps sale of The Peak plot as bids failed to meet target

17 Oct, 5:42pm 44

Transport

How the MTR Corp ‘lost its focus’ and forgot about public interest

1 Sep, 12:17pm 11

Letters

To cool Hong Kong housing, peg flat prices to tenders

11 Jul, 9:30pm 10

Opinion

Carrie Lam in welcome stand on high land prices

7 Jul, 4:40am 8

Opinion

Official land deal simply magic for Disney

20 Jun, 4:30am 11

Insight & Opinion

Time for action, not just debate, in tackling housing crisis

19 Jun, 5:53am 6

Opinion

Hoarding denial by Hong Kong developers raises smile in hard times

19 Jun, 5:56am 5

More on China home price

Business

Citic’s decision to edge away from housing market pays dividends

17 Oct, 9:00am 1

Hong Kong & China

Disappointing Golden Week sales puts China builders in tight spot

10 Oct, 8:00am 6

Hong Kong & China

Chinese homebuyers vent rage at developer for slashing home prices

8 Oct, 3:43pm 18

Money & Wealth

China’s home prices rise at fastest rate for 2 years

15 Sep, 10:06pm 1

Hong Kong & China

Sanya developers told to freeze sales prices for six months

30 Aug, 8:47am

Hong Kong & China

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

15 Oct, 12:15pm 1

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor recently announced proposals to allow industrial properties to be used for transitional housing

Can widespread industrial conversions fill Hong Kong’s housing shortfall?

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor recently announced proposals to allow industrial properties to be used for transitional housing.

17 Oct 2018 - 11:54am 8 More on Hong Kong property

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China steps closer to banning home presales, sending a chill among domestic developers

China steps closer to banning home presales, sending a chill among property developers

17 Oct 2018 - 10:00am

A construction site and residential building reflected on the glass wall of a building in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

Citic’s decision to edge away from housing market pays dividends

17 Oct 2018 - 9:00am 1

The Sol City construction site in Hong Kong’s New Territories. Photo: Roy Issa

Hong Kong developer Chinachem prices flats 12 per cent below old homes

17 Oct 2018 - 1:03pm 1

The Peak site whose sale was withdrawn by the Hong Kong government on Tuesday. Photo: Roy Issa

Hong Kong scraps sale of The Peak plot as bids failed to meet target

17 Oct 2018 - 5:42pm 44

Shareholders may have blocked the deal in rare move because the US$190 million price tag was too low, even as the embattled firm fights to trim debt

HNA shareholders who vetoed Beijing office sale want ‘better deal’

16 Oct 2018 - 11:25pm

Just 100 of the 491 flats on offer were bought at Nan Fung’s “LP6” development on Saturday, even after significant price cuts. Photo: Reuters

Homeowners, developers rush to cash in before further price falls

16 Oct 2018 - 8:43pm 32

Sheung Shan Kai Wat village in the New Territories. Photo: Nora Tam

Tackling colonial policy may help ease Hong Kong housing shortage

15 Oct 2018 - 4:09pm 13

Prospective property buyers at the Octa Tower in Kowloon Bay, queuing up to bid for 491 units of LP6 at Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O on 13 October, 2018. Photo SCMP / Xiaomei Chen

Home sales flop as sentiments cool in Hong Kong’s property market

15 Oct 2018 - 10:38am 25

Prospective buyer line up at the sales office of One East Coast on October 12, the first project launch after Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s policy speech. Photo: Edmond So

Hong Kong buyers snap up a quarter of flats in ‘youth oriented’ project in Yau Tong on Friday

13 Oct 2018 - 3:19pm 11

‘Houses should be for living in, not for speculation,’ President Xi said one year ago. But he finds status quo is hard to change.

China launches experiments to tame runaway housing prices

13 Oct 2018 - 1:25pm 10

The government-owned Mansfield Road site was expected to fetch up to HK$40 billion (US$5.1 billion). The government tended closed on Friday. Photo: Roy Issa

Hong Kong’s tender for a rare land site on The Peak fetches just five bids

12 Oct 2018 - 11:16pm

About 15 office buildings in Hong Kong worth more than HK$31 billion were sold to mainland companies, according to CBRE, in the first half of 2018. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong attracted US$13.26 billion in cross-border cash until June

12 Oct 2018 - 8:33pm 1

A recent wave of price discounting for both residential and commercial properties indicates a softening in sentiment

The sudden tinge of fear among sellers in Hong Kong’s property market

12 Oct 2018 - 11:15pm 43

Home ownership is the most important channel of investment for urban households in China, and price cuts have become a cause for social unrest. Photo: Reuters

Public anger in China spreading as property prices drop

11 Oct 2018 - 11:30pm 88

A China Vanke construction site in Shanghai. The company’s Shoukai-Vanke Bailujun Project in Xiamen has been on sale since October 2017. Photo: Reuters

China Vanke offers 200,000 yuan for ‘design change’ after price cut

11 Oct 2018 - 8:31am 5

Drone shot of The Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay. The iconic building is set to be converted into top-class offices. Photo: Roy Issa

Excelsior owner eyes US$1.8 billion profit turning hotel into offices

11 Oct 2018 - 1:48pm 1

Investors can get a better return on their investment in office towers in Tokyo, shown above in 2011, than in Hong Kong, where prices and borrowing costs eat at profits. Photo: AFP

Tokyo outshines Hong Kong for investors in office towers

10 Oct 2018 - 10:38pm

Chinese developers reported weak sales during the generally busy Golden Week holiday period. Photo: EyePress News

Disappointing Golden Week sales puts China builders in tight spot

10 Oct 2018 - 8:00am 6

Occupancy rates of properties in Wan Chai and Causeway Bay will immediately surge by at least 6 per cent when the Excelsior closes in March, says Colliers

Excelsior’s closure to cost tourists more for hotel stays in Hong Kong

10 Oct 2018 - 4:10pm 14

Mansfield Road plot expected to cost HK$40 billion despite weakening sentiment, rising interest rates

New houses on The Peak nine times the value of Buckingham Palace

10 Oct 2018 - 6:09am 13

Mandarin Oriental put four-star hotel on the market in June last year as the site can produce a higher yield when used for commercial offices

Hong Kong’s iconic Excelsior hotel to shut in March 2019

11 Oct 2018 - 10:27am 22

Six in 10 Hongkongers were pessimistic about the local economy in the coming six months, according to a survey conducted by the Hong Kong Research Association in September. Photo: AFP

Trade war, souring sentiment weigh on Hong Kong property market

9 Oct 2018 - 3:02pm 9

Chinese homebuyers vent rage at Country Garden for slashing prices at two residential developments by up to 30 per cent

Chinese homebuyers vent rage at developer for slashing home prices

8 Oct 2018 - 3:43pm 18

A flat in Amoy Gardens in Kowloon Bay recently sold for HK$6 million after the price was reduced by HK$800,000. Photo: Edward Wong

Property owners cut prices multiple times before finding buyers

7 Oct 2018 - 10:01pm 46

Mainland Chinese tourists visit Victoria Peak in Hong Kong on Thursday.The city is a favoured destination for many during 'golden week' – the holiday following China's National Day on October 1. Photo: EPA

Hotels toast bumper ‘golden week’, fuelled by free-spending mainlanders

7 Oct 2018 - 10:01pm 7

Property agents say market sentiment weighed down by higher mortgage rate, sluggish stock market and US-China trade tensions

Flat sale in Hong Kong shows world’s priciest housing market is cooling

6 Oct 2018 - 11:26pm 17

Chinese developers have been squeezed by China’s lending curbs. Photo: AFP

Troubled Chinese developer misses US$204 million in bond payments

5 Oct 2018 - 10:32pm 1

Prospective buyers look at a model of the LP6 development at a sales centre in Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Another Hong Kong builder cuts price of flats as market turns sour

5 Oct 2018 - 11:01pm 15