Hong Kong property

Potential buyers wait in a queue in hopes of buying a flat in the third round of sales of Nan Fung Development's LP6 development. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Families snap up latest flats at LP6, defying warnings about coming price drop

About 55 per cent of Nan Fung Development’s 707 flats at its LP6 development in Tseung Kwan O were sold by 5.30pm. ‘Usually prices will rise again after correcting a little,’ one buyer said

25 Sep 2018 - 6:57pm 1

The Estate Agents Authority says that as sales of new flats have been rising, it has led to sales sites teeming with a mix of licensed unlicensed salesmen, which inevitably turns chaotic. Photo: SCMP

Hong Kong property agents’ watchdog to crack down on errant brokers

25 Sep 2018 - 5:33pm 1

The marina began operations in 1989 and is next one of Hong Kong’s best-known private residential developments, Discovery Bay. Photo: Roy Issa

Club defends evictions of boat owners, says revamp will make it world-class

25 Sep 2018 - 9:32am 26

Markets observers say the actress got off lightly as home prices are expected to fall further on the back of rising interest rates and trade war concerns

Actress Shu Qi sells Hong Kong villa at a loss as market starts to cool

25 Sep 2018 - 10:10am 51

Hong Kong’s money rate soars to decade high before US Fed raises key interest rates

Hong Kong’s money cost soars to decade high before US raises rates

24 Sep 2018 - 11:28pm 1

The Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, which overtook Hong Kong in economic size last year, now ranks as the prime location for future development, according to Swire Properties chief executive Guy Bradley

Swire Properties has a bold vision that anticipates the continuing rise of Shenzhen

24 Sep 2018 - 9:53am

The China Vanke headquarters in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province. The developer’s launch price is the lowest recorded in Hong Kong’s Tuen Mun district in the past two years. Photo: Reuters

What’s cheaper than Tuen Mun public housing? China Vanke apartments

22 Sep 2018 - 10:47am 10

Potential buyers queue up for SHKP's residential project St Martin at the International Commerce Centre (ICC) in West Kowloon on July 14, 2018. Photo: Dickson Lee

Looming big vacancy tax is prodding city’s developers to sell empty flats

22 Sep 2018 - 12:49am 14

The headquarters of Garden in Sham Shui Po. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong baker Garden to redevelop 80-year-old headquarters

21 Sep 2018 - 11:22pm 7

Discovery Bay Marina Club said the closure was for “long overdue” renovations. Photo: Roy Issa

More than 10,000 sign up in support of Discovery Bay houseboat dwellers

21 Sep 2018 - 6:33pm 11

Nan Fung Development’s LP6 project in Tseung Kwan O. Photo: Roy Issa

Hong Kong set for biggest sale of new homes in 5 years

21 Sep 2018 - 1:17pm 14

The Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre said its proposal would “beef up” the efficiency of the Town Planning Board. Photo: Martin Chan

Let people recommend themselves for planning board, government urged

20 Sep 2018 - 6:16pm 1

Broken windows and glass are seen strewn on the grounds surrounding Harbour Grand Kowloon in Whampoa, Hung Hom. Photo: Nora Tam

Repairing properties mauled by Typhoon Mangkhut won’t be cheap

20 Sep 2018 - 5:11pm 11

The Luohu district of Shenzhen, third in a new list of Asian tech hotspots compiled by Colliers. Photo: SCMP

Hong Kong tech hub appeal hammered by spiralling rents, high salaries

20 Sep 2018 - 6:28pm

Hong Kong’s grade A office vacancy rate has steadily trended lower over the last 20 years. Photo: Daniel Cheung Sung-lok

No hope in sight for Hong Kong’s soaring office rents, experts say

19 Sep 2018 - 7:51am 4

Soggy, but not discouraged, Hong Kong homebuyers overcome typhoon aftermath to snap up flats on Monday

Hong Kong homebuyers overcome typhoon aftermath to snap up flats

18 Sep 2018 - 8:43am 7

Home prices are headed in the right direct, at least for younger buyers. But that’s bad news for sellers, some of whom are having to shave million off their asking prices. Photo: SCMP

Hong Kong home owners are now selling at discounts as rates rise

18 Sep 2018 - 7:44pm 16

The Hong Kong skyline as seen from Victoria Peak. Demand for co-working facilities in the city mushroomed to 1.2 million sq ft in the five months to May, according to CBRE. Photo: Fung Chang

Shanghai firm eyes co-working market as Hong Kong demand rises

17 Sep 2018 - 3:41pm

Greenland Holdings, 46.4 per cent owned by Shanghai’s government, is in talks to take over control of Hsin Chong and its unit, using them as platforms for fundraising and for bidding for overseas projects along the belt and road plan

Greenland to take over one of Hong Kong’s oldest building firms

17 Sep 2018 - 12:47pm

Thousands of potential buyers line up at the sales launch of Nan Fung Development’s LP6 development in Tseung Kwan O on 15 September 2018, during the calm before Super Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall in Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP/ Edward Wong

Thousands in last-minute rush before super typhoon... for property

17 Sep 2018 - 3:57pm 11

About 200 families living on boats at Discovery Bay Marina Club face eviction. Photo: Nora Tam

Living on a boat in Hong Kong a ‘legal grey area’

15 Sep 2018 - 11:32pm 10

Casey Kiihfuss with her husband and children (from left) Addison, Reed and Kenzie are scrambling for another place to berth their houseboat. Photo: Sam Tsang

Houseboat saga: First World problems or callous destruction of homes?

15 Sep 2018 - 8:49am 65

Elderly people wait outside a bank in Kwun Tong to subscribe to inflation-linked bonds issued by the government, in June 2013. Photo: Dickson Lee

More housing for the elderly is good only if the rents are right

15 Sep 2018 - 1:00am

The site at 6 to 8 Mansfield Road on The Peak could fetch a total price of more than HK$40 billion. Photo: Roy Issa

A land parcel on The Peak could be about to set a new price benchmark

14 Sep 2018 - 11:08pm

Potential buyers lining up for Sun Hung Kai Properties’ sale of 117 units for the Cullinan West II, photographed on September 2 at the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon. Photo: Felix Wong

SHKP finishes off more than half of entire year’s sales target in just 10 weeks

14 Sep 2018 - 12:17pm 4

The space, the quiet, the community spirit – families whose boats face eviction from Discovery Bay marina talk about the advantages of a life afloat

The houseboat life: what Discovery Bay families may lose

12 Sep 2018 - 8:44pm 15

The Hong Kong government is looking at ways to create 280,000 new public flats within a decade. Above, Choi Hung Estate, photographed in 2016. Photo: SCMP/Felix Wong

What would entice developers to build 280,000 low-income flats in New Territories?

12 Sep 2018 - 10:22am 8

Residential properties are shown in Tsuen Wan West, including City Point (left) and Pavilia Bay (right). Photo: SCMP/ Felix Wong

The most lucrative job in the world’s costliest property market? A sales agent

12 Sep 2018 - 4:07pm 10

Chen Sze Long – founder and chief executive officer of Atlas, and the son of the chairman of mainland property firm Agile Property, Chen Zhuo Lin – launched his first Hong Kong workplace on Monday. Photo: SCMP

Co-working space operator hopes for boost from Hong Kong express rail

11 Sep 2018 - 8:10pm

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