Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters
Tom Holland
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Don't be put off by a softening property market - Hong Kong can handle it

The recent slide in the city’s shares was tinged with the fear that local home prices may fall too. But while residential property is not as attractive an investment as it used to be, an economic slump isn’t on the cards

Tom Holland
Tom Holland

Updated: 2:25pm, 15 Oct, 2018

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Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong property buyers are often told not to worry about banks’ limits on leverage. Photo: Reuters
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Tom Holland

Tom Holland

Tom Holland is a former SCMP staffer who has been writing about Asian affairs for more than 25 years