Commercial Property
Mid-market retailers to re-establish in prime locations in 2016
They are retail spaces' main demand drivers.
Mid-market retailers to re-establish in prime locations in 2016
They are retail spaces' main demand drivers.
Hong Kong's retail market failed to improve in 4Q15
4Q usually a year's most upbeat period.
Hong Kong professionals point to meeting rooms as offices' "weakest link"
36% are dropping complaints.
Central records highest office rental growth in 2015
No new supply in next four years virtually.
NWD takes on privatising NWCL once more
What's different this time around?
Transaction volume of commercial property in 2015 reaches HK$93.3 billion
This is the highest since 2012.
Warehouse rents in industrial market declined 0.3 q-o-q
While overall leasing momentum slowed.
Rental decline of retail shops slows in 4Q15 to 2% q-o-q
While lease surrenders eased temporarily.
Overall vacancy in office market edges down to 3.1% in 4Q15
It's the second-lowest ever recorded.
Multiple rental transactions in CBD suggest strong performance
Despite general silence near year-end.
APAC institutional investors to inject US$240 billion into world property markets by 2020
This constitutes a majority of their investments.
Grade-A office sector to drive 2016 Hong Kong property
Extremely low vacancy rates to help.
5% increase in 2016 Grade-A office rents in core areas predicted
Thanks partly to strong demand.
Hong Kong is Asia's most expensive city for construction
Trailing behind New York and London.
Investors wait and see as property hovers in a range
Developers can hold up well, though.
2016 Asia real estate activity full of capital flowing to core space
Flight to safe haven markets also cited.
New World Development buys 36% stake in Beames from CTFE
The consideration to be paid in cash.