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When a home owner sells a property, they can choose to sell the property by themselves or appoint a licensed agent to help them sell the property. What are the differences between the two? And what is there to be aware of?In the past, owners who chose to sell their properties by themselves us...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-09-05     12.2K     79     32
As in the past, many sectors have suggested that the government relax property measures to revive the Hong Kong housing market. For example, Tan Yue-heng, member of the Legislative Council and chairman of Bank of Communications International, suggested that the government could consider making halvi...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-08-29     6.1K     69     20
CK Asset’s The Coastline II project in Yau Tong has been the talk of the town. The new development was sold at a record low price of HK$14,868 per square foot and received more than 30,600 pre-sale cheques, making it the most over-subscribed new development in Hong Kong's history. Capitalising...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-08-22     13.6K     89     42
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates again by 0.25% in July, raising the target range for the Federal Funds Rate to 5.25% to 5.5%, which is the 11th rate hike since March 2022. Subsequently, banks in Hong Kong followed suit by raising interest rates by 0.125% to 0.375%, with the prime rate r...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-08-15     19.3K     157     41
After the new government took office, the government has taken much action to address the public’s concerns on land and housing, such as encouraging private property developers to participate in the construction of Private Subsidised Sale Flat and public housing. Recently, the Development Bure...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-08-08     6.6K     57     13
A fresh wave of starter homes has arrived!At the start of 2019, the Government launched ‘eResidence’ – the first pilot starter home project for Hong Kong residents – which provided 450 units at the time. Now, the government has announced news for the second phase of eR...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-07-25     22.6K     446     56
The Financial Secretary, Paul Chan Mo-po, revealed about a month ago that the Government would consider further marginally relaxing the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for first-time homebuyers. On 7 July, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) relaxed the city’s LTV ratios, and on the same day, th...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-07-19     16.3K     154     22
To increase housing supply, the government will use different methods, such as reclamation and change of land use. In one method, the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) acquires land, demolishes underused and dilapidated buildings in old districts, and redevelops them into high-rise buildings.We o...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-07-05     14K     191     32
The Housing Authority's Subsidised Housing Committee (SHC) has approved the regular sale of Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) recovered flats. The new batch of TPS recovered flats will be sold under the 2023 Home Ownership Scheme (HOS).What is the Tenants Purchase Scheme? It is a scheme for the s...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-06-27     28.9K     314     65
Will the government relax the loan-to-value ratio (LTV) for first-time home buyers again? Paul Chan Mo-po, Hong Kong’s financial secretary, said at a meeting of the Legislative Council Panel on Financial Affairs that the government had no intention of adjusting the property market's cooling me...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-06-21     26.8K     360     57
With longer wait times and public housing in short supply, policies on well-off tenants have been controversial. In view of this, the Housing Authority's Subsidized Housing Committee met last Wednesday and approved the tightening of the policy in order to combat the abuse of public housing.Under th...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-05-30     20.3K     252     64
To curb soaring property prices, the government has launched a number of cooling measures, including Special Stamp Duty and Buyer's Stamp Duty. These measures were introduced in 2010 – but now that market conditions have changed, there have been calls for the government to reduce or even remov...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-05-23     8.5K     89     18
Many people consider securing a Public Rental Housing (PRH) or Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flat to be a winning situation in life. The 2023 HOS will start accepting applications in the middle of this year at the earliest. Flat selection will begin in the first quarter of next year, but the governmen...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-05-02     20.9K     349     47
The Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance, which has been in force since 29 April 2013 to regulate the sale of new properties, has been implemented for 10 years. But for the first time, a property agent has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, shocking the local real estate in...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-04-26     16.7K     174     42
The issue of housing for young people has always been a major concern. In his first Policy Address since taking office last year, Chief executive Lee Ka-chiu proposed to expand the Youth Hostel Scheme by subsidising NGOs to rent rooms in suitable hotels and guesthouses and convert them into youth ho...
Squarefoot Editor   #Wed Property Focus  2023-04-19     13.6K     110     27
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