In a commercial rental market beset by high vacancy rates, many Hong Kong landlords feel stuck between a rock and a hard place: giving tenants a break on rent makes it harder to pay mortgages and threatens asset value, but holding the line on rent runs the risk of driving tenants away. In this difficult…
Wang Ruoshuo, a 21-year-old student from Hefei, the capital of central Anhui province, is searching for a flat in Hung Hom in southern Kowloon, which is close to her university and the company where she interns. As a first-time renter, however, she has been taken aback by the high prices. Wang and her friends are…
Hong Kong’s retail landlords are extending more rental discounts to their tenants, property agents said, amid a tough operating environment. Japanese supermarket chain Don Don Donki will be keeping its 17,332 sq ft of space across two floors at 100 Queen’s Road Central for HK$900,000 (US$115,456) a month, a 25 per cent reduction from the…
representative image HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s home prices declined for a third month in February to a nearly nine-year low, government figures showed on Thursday, as the ailing property market struggled to find support amid a weak economic outlook. By the numbers Private home prices fell 0.9% in February from the month before, following a…
Hong Kong banks’ unexpected prime rate cut on Friday will lower funding costs and bring more buyers into the market, with analysts expecting home prices in the city to bottom out “in the short term”. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city’s de facto central bank, lowered its base interest rate for the second…