Things are getting quiet on the mainland as authorities continue to step up enforcement of home sales restrictions in a crackdown first launched in late June. During September home sales fell by 3.6 percent in terms of floor space, marking… Read More>>
HK Govt Cancels $4.1B Peak Land Sale as Developers Lowball Luxury Site
The Hong Kong government on Tuesday cancelled a land sale for the first time since January 2016, as it withdrew a luxury site near Victoria Peak which it had hoped would bring bids as high as HK$32.3 billion ($4.1 billion).
HNA Pawns HK$506M Peak Mansion for Short-Term Loan and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Hangovers suffered from China’s cross-border buying binge dominate the real estate news across the region today, with familiar players HNA, Country Garden and CCCC taking leading roles in some financial drama. A day after HNA reported the untimely death of… Read More>>
Sun Hung Kai Buys Kai Tak Site For $3.2B in Hong Kong’s Biggest Recorded Land Sale
Sun Hung Kai Properties has agreed to pay the largest sum ever at a government land sale in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets when the listed real estate developer won a government tender for a residential… Read More>>
$2.7B Kai Tak Project Could Break Record for Hong Kong’s Priciest Housing Site
A development consortium including Wheelock, K Wah International and Sino Land shocked Hong Kong by paying a record HK$17.28 billion ($2.21 billion) for a waterfront residential site in Cheung Sha Wan late last year. Five months later, a residential lot… Read More>>
Kowloon High Speed Rail Terminus Site Could Spawn $18B Hong Kong Land King
The Hong Kong government has unveiled its land sale programme for the new financial year from April 2018 to March 2019, including four commercial sites and 27 residential sites. Drawing the most attention is a 6-hectare commercial site above the… Read More>>
Hong Kong Boosts Land Sale Transparency in Battle Against Crazy Bidders
Hong Kong is learning from its all-time rival Singapore as it seeks to tame the city’s land prices. In addition to the tender amount of the successful bidder in land sales, the Hong Kong government will now publish the amounts… Read More>>
Chinachem Outbids 24 Developers to Win Kwun Tong Site for $397M
Hong Kong developer Chinachem Group has won a tender to develop a residential parcel in the Kwun Tong area of the city’s Kowloon East, shouldering aside 24 other bidders to offer HK$3.1 billion ($397 million).
Other competitors for the site… Read More>>
Kowloon Waterfront Residential Site Could Sell for Record-Breaking $2.8B
Nearly a dozen mainland and Hong Kong developers have placed bids on a waterfront residential site that could be worth up to HK$22 billion ($2.82 billion) in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan area, following Sun Hung Kai’s purchase of an… Read More>>
Sun Hung Kai Picks Up Kowloon Hotel Site for Record-Breaking $649M
Hong Kong development giant Sun Hung Kai has bought a hotel site in Cheung Sha Wan for HK$5.06 billion ($648.8 million), blowing past market expectations for the waterfront parcel and setting a per square foot price record for the city’s… Read More>>