Jun 22, 2025 Hong Kong investors are increasingly directing their attention towards Japan’s real estate market, challenging the dominance of US, Singaporean, and mainland Chinese investors. According to a report by market consultants, global investors, including those from Hong Kong, are investing heavily in Japan’s residential property sector as returns in mainland China continue to…
Hong Kong’s residential property market is poised for a recovery after enduring a seven-year downturn, according to Morgan Stanley. Home prices in the city are set to bottom out, driven by an influx of mainland Chinese buyers, improved capital markets and a recent plunge in interest rates, analysts led by Praveen Choudhary said in a…
Apr 30, 2025 Hong Kong’s real estate market is grappling with a surge in negative equity cases, reaching levels not seen since 2003. Official data reveals that the number of properties valued below their mortgage amounts climbed by 6.1% to 40,741 in the first quarter, as reported by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). This…
UK house prices experienced their biggest monthly drop in a year this March, which resulted from market cooling after many homebuyers completed purchases to avoid English and Northern Irish stamp duty changes. According to data from Halifax, the average property price dropped by 0.5 per cent in March, falling to £296,699. This marks the most…
About 150 new family offices attracted by innovation and technology developments and an emerging art market in Hong Kong have expressed an interest in settling in the city, despite intensified geopolitics and the tensions brought about by CK Hutchison Holdings’ Panama port sale, the investment chief has revealed. Of the 150 offices, 80 are from…
Mar 13, 2025 US Investment Firm Ares Management Targets Debt of Hong Kong Developer New World Ares Management Corp., a US-based alternative investment manager, has approached several banks to acquire debt issued by Hong Kong developer New World Development Co. (source). Attempts by Ares to purchase the debt at a discount align with the company’s…
Rents in Hong Kong hit a five-and-a-half-year high in February amid an increase in demand after a lull during the holiday season, according to Centaline Property Agency, which expects rents to continue rising as economic uncertainty discourages more people from buying homes. Centaline’s widely followed Centa-City Rental Index, published on Monday, rose 0.46 per cent…
Hong Kong will press on with selling residential plots, the development minister has said, despite an earlier warning from a credit-rating agency that oversupply is hurting the property market. Bernadette Linn Hon-ho also said on Saturday that authorities would not give up on creating artificial islands in the waters off Lantau as part of plans…
The Hong Kong government has disputed a report by an American credit rating agency that described the local property market as suffering from oversupply, as officials stressed that the data showed there was strong housing demand. Authorities responded on Thursday after S&P Global Ratings published its report that said the government was not aggressively addressing…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates Asia’s third-largest stock exchange, reported record annual profit on higher market turnover and a surge in new listings amid a market rally that started in September. Net profit in 2024 increased 10 per cent to HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion), or HK$10.32 per share, compared with HK$11.9 billion…