An annual study of housing markets worldwide by investment bank UBS has identified Hong Kong as one of the world’s riskiest places to buy a home, while sizing up Singapore as a market ready for an upswing.
In its 2017… Read More>>
Asia real estate and outbound investment news
An annual study of housing markets worldwide by investment bank UBS has identified Hong Kong as one of the world’s riskiest places to buy a home, while sizing up Singapore as a market ready for an upswing.
In its 2017… Read More>>
Once known for its decaying workshops, the Wong Chuk Hang area in southern Hong Kong is gaining popularity as a commercial hub with developers rushing to turn its one-time factory space into hotels, offices and retail space.
The opening of… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Sunlight REIT, which is managed by a unit of Henderson Land Development, has announced that it is buying a commercial building on Nathan Road in Mong Kok for HK$658 million ($84.3 million). Through the sale-and-leaseback deal, the REIT… Read More>>
Luxury residential agency List Sotheby’s International Realty has made its Hong Kong debut, as the Tokyo-based agency expands its global footprint. The Japanese affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty – itself an offshoot of the well-known Sotheby’s Auction House – opens… Read More>>
The top floor of The Center office tower, the tallest building in the portfolio of Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong group, is poised to change hands for HK$738 ($94.5 million), smashing the price per square foot record for a strata-titled office… Read More>>
A new player has jumped into Hong Kong’s rapidly growing co-working sector, with Amsterdam-based Spaces leasing out an entire building in a prime area of the city’s Sheung Wan area to serve as a shared office venue. The deal marks… Read More>>
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel group has begun to receive offers for the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, with at least five bids reportedly valuing the four-star waterfront property at HK$30 billion ($3.8 billion).
If the 848-room Excelsior is… Read More>>
China’s Country Garden has shrugged off a government clampdown on cross-border capital flows by acquiring its second Hong Kong project in less than three months. The Guangzhou-based developer is picking up a 60 percent stake in a waterfront residential site in… Read More>>
Developer Hong Kong Resorts International (HKRI) has sold the entire 22nd floor of China Merchants Tower in Hong Kong’s Shun Tak Centre for HK$750 million ($95.9 million). The transaction, which values the office space at nearly HK$31,000 ($3,962) per square… Read More>>
A unit of Bank of China is taking a bite out of Hong Kong’s commercial property sector, as it picks up three buildings for a total of HK$3.1 billion (US$396 million), including a co-working facility in Kwun Tong and a… Read More>>