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…
Hong Kong’s homebuyers snapped up every flat on offer during a weekend sales launch on Saturday, as attractive prices amid a stock market rally bolstered sentiment in the city’s tepid property market. All 250 flats at Kerry Properties’ Hava project in Yuen Long were snapped up by 4.30pm, sales agents said. The flats, ranging from…
Hong Kong banks were likely to be more selective in extending credit to developers amid a prolonged property slump that could pose a “major risk” to lenders, according to Moody’s Ratings. Banks’ property development and investment loans accounted for 16 per cent of their total lending as of June, the credit-rating agency said in a…
Hong Kong developers will continue to price their swollen inventory of new flats at discount prices to attract buyers in 2025 as hopes of lower interest rates fade and concerns grow about a liquidity crunch among builders. “Expecting interest rate cuts to support the property market is unlikely for this year,” said Chau Kwong-wing, chair…
New World Development (NWD) on Saturday recorded a sell-out at its State Pavilia project in North Point, as “enthusiastic” Hong Kong homebuyers brushed aside the raised prices of the batch of units offered this weekend. As of 6.22pm, NWD – controlled by the family of chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun – sold out all of the…