Hong Kong schools ramp up property investment, leasing as city eyes education hub status

Hong Kong schools ramp up property investment, leasing as city eyes education hub status

Hong Kong’s bid to be an international education hub is spurring investments in the city’s battered commercial property segment, with hotels being converted to student housing and schools becoming a major driver of leasing in the retail sector, according to analysts. So far this year, investors have spent HK$2.6 billion (US$334 million) in the student…

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Hong Kong property: Southeast Asian buyers, schools fuel revival in commercial deals

Hong Kong property: Southeast Asian buyers, schools fuel revival in commercial deals

Southeast Asian companies like lender DBS Group Holdings and fast-food chain operator Jollibee and local education institutions are giving Hong Kong’s property market a much-needed boost, fanning hopes the worst of the investment slump may have passed. Southeast Asian firms and education firms each contributed around 22 per cent of the total HK$6.28 billion (US$809…

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