Residential Property
Swire's retail properties 100% occupied
Office occupancy is strong at 97% as well.
Property sales up 19.4% to 11,928
8,714 were for residential units.
Construction starts and new completions speed up
Housing supply remains unchanged at 65,000 in Sept.
Developers launched projects ahead of earlier schedule after government announced new measures
Developers cleared some 70 units over the past weekend.
Busted: Market to suffer from negative consequences of ignoring explicit warnings
Nomura sees 3-5% home price pull back in the next 2 months.
New measures to protect locals in property market
Residents have first priority in buying property.
Impact of latest property measures likely to be more significant this time
Drop in transaction could be more than 30%.
Residential mortgage faces testing times
Approved mortgage loans down 11.1% in Sept.
Local companies should not evade the Buyer's Stamp Duty
Equal treatment to local and foreign companies should prevail.
What you need to know about Hong Kong's move to curb the property market
Sales of luxury projects will be hurt.
This graph shows the cost of entry into Hong Kong's housing market
Looks like it's time to sell.
This is what happened to property speculators post first round of stamp duty
Is the mission accomplished already?
China Overseas Land profits up 10% but below expectations
Unrecognised contracted sales of HK$111bn by end-Sep 2012 should underpin sales in 4Q.
Campaign against unlawful land occupation intensified
Government has no obligation to regularise the illegal occupations by short term tenancy.
Property owners may soon avail of e-Alert services
It's an early email alert to property owners to help prevent property fraud.
Home price growth rockets to 8.4%
It's Hong Kong's strongest growth since 2009.