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Real estate on Markets+ ↗After 17 years of intermittent government-led initiatives to turn the Siu Lek Yuen industrial area into residential housing, a company recently applied to convert two industrial buildings on the site into 928 residential flats. The move would offer a more viable and profitable path forward for developers because even though Hong Kong’s residential property market was cooling, industrial properties faced a sharp decline in demand, according to analysts.
Beijing’s latest property stimulus package has failed to stop a downward spiral in home transactions and prices in mainland China’s lower-tier cities, which could prompt top regulators to roll out stronger incentives to reinvigorate the weak market. According to data compiled by the China Real Estate Index System (CREIS), prices in the country’s third- and fourth-tier cities dropped 2 per cent year on year in October for new homes, while prices of lived-in residential units slumped 6.5 per...
Hong Kong’s property market is bucking a wider shift towards selling across Asia-Pacific, with three-quarters of market professionals reporting stronger buying intentions among their clients, even as rising borrowing costs are making investors across the region more cautious. About 75 per cent of respondents in Hong Kong reported stronger buying intentions in the third quarter, up from 71 per cent in the first quarter, making the city an outlier in a region where more investors are looking to...
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