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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hong Kong-headquartered Toys ‘R’ Us Asia has pivoted to an experience-focused format and smaller stores in the city following an expansion programme that sought to increase its outlets as it navigates the changing retail landscape.
The group planned to close the year with 20 stores in Hong Kong, representing a 40 per cent rise from 2025, said Leo Tsoi, CEO of the toys and collectibles retailer.
The strategy allows the group to be more nimble and adapt to the demographic shift, as toys and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Toys ‘R’ Us game-changer: ‘kidults’, compact shops fuel pivot as Hong Kong retail evolves</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong homebuyers’ strong demand for new flats extended a streak of brisk sales for developers with one project selling out in a single day, underscoring the city’s broader recovery in housing prices.
All 88 units at the Pavilia Farm III project by New World Development and MTR Corporation in Sha Tin were sold on Saturday, prompting the developers to put 75 more flats on sale later that night.
Elsewhere in Kai Tak, 133 units of KT Marina II were snapped up over the weekend, according to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong homebuyers extend sell-out streak amid renewed confidence in market</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
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      <description>The US-Israeli war on Iran has unleashed sharp swings across global energy and financial markets, fuelling demand for safe-haven assets, with Hong Kong emerging as a potential beneficiary across gold, property and capital markets. In the second of a three-part series, we look at Hong Kong’s position as a stable base where demand for property has held firm despite the global turmoil.
Hong Kong’s property market is showing early signs of renewed safe haven demand, with a surge in luxury...</description>
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      <author>Julie Zhang</author>
      <dc:creator>Julie Zhang</dc:creator>
      <description>Homebuyers continued to signal confidence in Hong Kong’s residential market on Saturday, with about three quarters of 248 new flats put up for sale snapped up by late afternoon.
A total of 53 out of 88 units were sold at The Pavilia Farm III, while 129 of 160 units at KT Marina II in Kai Tak were taken as of 4.30pm, according to Midland Realty.
The Pavilia Farm III, a project jointly developed by New World Development (NWD) and MTR Corp atop Tai Wai Station in Sha Tin, saw buyers throng the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong buyers snap up more than 180 new homes as market confidence returns</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Futu Securities is the latest non-food and beverage retailer to sell coffee and other drinks in one of its outlets in Hong Kong as the online stock brokerage adapts to its clients’ lifestyle, according to a spokesman.
Futu Café was officially launched on Thursday at the Futu Store on Lee Garden Road, Causeway Bay, close to its flagship store on Russell Street. Cups of espresso, Americano and iced blue coconut water, among other drinks, are available between 7.30am and 7.30pm.
The launch of the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Futu Securities opens coffee shop in branch as it adapts to changing client ‘lifestyles’</title>
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      <description>DBS Bank (Hong Kong) has agreed to pay about HK$2.62 billion (US$334 million) for six floors at The Center – once the world’s most expensive skyscraper – marking the city’s largest office transaction so far this year.
The lender acquired the 32nd, 36th, 37th, 56th, 62nd and 76th floors late last month, with the deal registered on Tuesday, according to Land Registry records. The purchase adds 151,934 sq ft of gross floor area, DBS said in a statement on Wednesday.
The price works out to roughly...</description>
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      <title>DBS Hong Kong acquires six floors at The Center in US$334 million deal</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
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      <description>Mainland buyers are playing an increasingly prominent role in Hong Kong’s housing market rebound, supported by a stronger yuan, rising rents and an influx of new arrivals shifting from tenants to homeowners.
Transactions involving mainland buyers rose 53 per cent year on year to 3,882 units across the primary and secondary markets in the first quarter, according to Midland Realty, citing Land Registry data.
The value of those purchases jumped 93 per cent to HK$42.7 billion (US$5.5 billion).
The...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Mainland Chinese buyers fuel 93% surge in Hong Kong property deal value</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s reputation as a safe haven could be reinforced by the geopolitical shock waves from the US-Israel conflict with Iran, potentially supporting demand for premium office space in its core business districts, according to analysts.
While the city was not insulated from global uncertainty, it could benefit over the medium term as Gulf investors reassessed geographic diversification and sought stable financial hubs, said Jack Tong, director of research and consultancy at Savills Hong...</description>
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      <description>While Hong Kong developers have accelerated project launches following the Easter holiday, primary home sales are settling into a measured phase following an earlier surge in demand.
The shift is evident at La Mirabelle I in Tseung Kwan O, where Sino Land and its partners released a third batch of units on Sunday. Buyers snapped up 71 of the 261 units on offer, pointing to less urgent demand than in earlier rounds.
The latest batch comprises 33 one-bedroom units, 178 two-bedroom units and 50...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Jardine Matheson is giving up its remaining office space in FWD Tower at Taikoo Place and plans to relocate staff back to Jardine House in Central as part of operational consolidation, sources said.
The move reflects a wider trend of companies consolidating into the core district, where demand for premium office space has been strengthening.
The group’s primary office at Jardine House, part of its own property portfolio, “is now undergoing renovations to create a modern workspace that will...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Hong Kong developers are preparing to launch nearly 1,300 units in the coming days and weeks, with some edging up prices amid improving homebuying sentiment.
On Sunday, 261 units at La Mirabelle I will be released, with average prices ranging from HK$15,335 (US$1,958) to HK$19,613 per square foot after discounts of up to 15 per cent, according to Sino Land, one of the project’s developers.
The pricing marks a 1 per cent increase on the previous batch, which Sino said reflected the quality of the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Hong Kong homebuyers flocked to the second round of new flat sales at the La Mirabelle I project in Tseung Kwan O on Tuesday, underscoring continuing demand for property amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
Of the 168 units offered via a price list, 152 had been sold as of 6.40pm, according to Sino Land. A further 86 flats were made available by tender. Sino is one of the project’s co-developers.
The launch generated more than HK$1.1 billion (US$140 million) in revenue, the developer...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong property launch sees brisk sales as buyers unfazed by Trump’s Iran warning</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hong Kong developers are raising prices of new homes this week following sold-out launches in recent days, further testing the appetite of homebuyers amid geopolitical and interest rate uncertainties.
Henderson Land Development put another 39 units at its Chester project in Hung Hom on sale on Monday, with 25 homes finding buyers, according to agents.
With an average discounted price of HK$22,198 (US$2,831) per square foot, the units were priced 4.57 per cent higher than the 123 units that sold...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Rents in Hong Kong’s luxury housing market are rising as supply tightens, with returning overseas professionals heating up the competition to secure prime homes.
The rebound is most evident in traditional upscale districts such as The Peak and Southside, where leasing activity has picked up sharply this year. Transactions reached 108 in the first quarter, with more than 40 per cent involving monthly rents above HK$100,000 (US$12,760), according to Midland Realty.
At the centre of the surge is...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Return of overseas hires meets tighter housing supply, driving up Hong Kong luxury rents</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Hong Kong’s New World Development (NWD) has shelved plans to acquire the remaining stakes in three commercial sites in Causeway Bay, signalling continued caution among developers despite signs of improving demand in the core office market.
The company, which has been selling assets to reduce debt, said it would “exercise prudence as appropriate, having regard to cost and efficiency, as well as overall market supply and demand, with a view to delivering reasonable returns”.
NWD, which reported...</description>
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      <title>New World pulls back on Causeway Bay acquisition amid uneven recovery</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Hong Kong’s property transactions crossed 7,000 for the sixth consecutive month in March – the first time in four years that monthly volumes stayed above this level – despite a slight fall last month, according to official data.
Residential transactions declined by about 5.3 per cent to 6,316 from a month earlier, while their month-on-month value decreased by 4.19 per cent to HK$55.18 billion (US$7.04 billion), according to data from the Land Registry on Thursday.
New and lived-in home sales...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong’s property market resilient despite small setback last month, analysts say</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Prime office supply in mainland Chinese cities and Hong Kong is estimated to peak this year, while demand remains hampered by an economic slowdown and global uncertainties, according to Cushman &amp; Wakefield.
At the end of 2025, premium office inventory in 21 major cities in Greater China – including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, as well as Taiwan – amounted to 99.2 million square metres (1.07 billion sq ft), up 4.6 million square metres or 8.4 per cent from a year earlier,...</description>
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      <title>Mainland China, Hong Kong premium office supply to peak as demand lags, Cushman says</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hong Kong homebuyers snapped up new launches on Tuesday as developers accelerated sales amid concerns over slower rate cuts and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
By about 3.50pm, all 254 flats released at the La Mirabelle project in Tseung Kwan O had been sold, according to market agents.
“Today’s positive sales results at La Mirabelle is a vote of confidence for the Hong Kong residential market,” said Daryl Ng, chairman of Sino Group. “The Hong Kong residential market fundamentals are...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong homebuyers pile into new launches despite rate jitters and Middle East tensions</title>
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      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Hongkongers Oscar and Stella Chan, a couple in their late 60s, have little interest in moving into a traditional residential care home.
The retired civil servants rent a flat in Ma On Shan in the New Territories and, while they acknowledge that ageing at home is not always “as straightforward as it sounds”, they believe conventional care homes can “feel restrictive”.
“If my financial situation and health allow, I would much prefer not to stay in a residential care home for the elderly,” Oscar...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong’s ageing challenge: is Singapore’s Kampung Admiralty model the answer?</title>
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      <author>Daniel Ren</author>
      <dc:creator>Daniel Ren</dc:creator>
      <description>Transactions of pre-owned homes in major Chinese cities led by Shanghai surged in March, fuelling expectations that the country’s embattled property sector may be stabilising.
Analysts and brokers said a more active resale market pointed to a gradual return of confidence among homebuyers after a three-year downturn.
In Shanghai, about 22,000 second-hand homes changed hands between March 1 and 23, up 170 per cent from the same period a month earlier, according to data from local financial outlet...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Rising second-hand home sales offer tentative signs of a floor in China’s property slump</title>
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      <author>Julie Zhang</author>
      <dc:creator>Julie Zhang</dc:creator>
      <description>Homebuyers continued to signal confidence in Hong Kong’s residential market on Saturday, brushing off global economic risks tied to the Middle East conflict and expectations of slower interest rate cuts, as a new project by Henderson Land Development sold out within hours.
All 123 units at Chester, the fifth phase of the Midtown South redevelopment in Hung Hom, were snapped up, according to property agents.
“About 60 per cent of buyers are end users while about 40 per cent are investors and...</description>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hong Kong developers on Friday released 222 new flats in Kowloon, the city’s largest batch of units on a single day since buyers were warned about the uncertain direction of interest rates.
K&amp;K Property launched 122 one-bedroom units at foto+, a single residential tower in Mong Kok close to Olympic station, while Wang On Properties put 100 units up for sale at the Connext project in Wong Tai Sin.
By 7pm Friday, 103 of the foto+ units had found buyers. Sales at Connext, meanwhile, kicked off at...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s lived-in home prices rose 1.6 per cent in February, marking the 11th straight month of positive movement for the residential property segment, as the city’s rents scaled another peak, according to official data.
Since reversing a downward trend in April, second-hand home prices had climbed nearly 8 per cent so far, bringing the official index to a 22-month high, according to data released on Friday by the Rating and Valuation Department.
The latest monthly increment was also larger...</description>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Major Hong Kong developers Henderson Land Development and Kerry Properties both reported mixed 2025 results, with stronger home sales partly offsetting softer rental income and a subdued commercial property market.
The earnings underscored how the city’s developers are shifting focus towards projects that can still generate cash flow, mainly high-end housing in Hong Kong and top-tier mainland cities, while waiting for offices and retail to recover.
Recent geopolitical tensions, including the...</description>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Regal Hotels International Holdings and its units have sold the 494-room Regal Oriental Hotel for about HK$1.52 billion (US$194 million) to the real estate investment arm of Centaline Group, which operates one of Hong Kong’s largest property agency networks, to be converted into a student hostel.
Regal Hotels and affiliates Century City International Holdings and Paliburg Holdings agreed to dispose of the 17-storey hotel on Sa Po Road, including two basement floors, the group said in a filing...</description>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
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      <description>Hongkonger Katie Chan was hoping to buy a flat to live in, and although the 37-year-old accountant was in no rush, the potential longer pause in interest rate cuts could delay her decision.
For Chan, the ideal mortgage would be if the one-month Hong Kong interbank offered rate (Hibor) fell below 1.95 per cent, but this year the key driver for local mortgage costs and corporate borrowing rates had only dropped to as low as 2.02 per cent, according to data tracked by the Hong Kong Association of...</description>
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      <title>Potential rate cut pause, geopolitical tensions may cloud Hong Kong property recovery</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
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      <description>Retailers and restaurant operators in Hong Kong are rethinking how they use space as rents fall and demand weakens by moving back to street-level shops and experimenting with short-term “pop-up” leases.
Hong Kong Hing Kee Java Edible Bird’s Nest (HK JEBN), known locally as “Lau Soeng” – Cantonese for “upstairs” – built its business by avoiding expensive street-front rents and operating from higher floors. It is now doing the opposite.
“After the pandemic, the retail market has been weak,” said...</description>
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      <author>Zhu Wenqian,Cheryl Arcibal</author>
      <dc:creator>Zhu Wenqian,Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Prime office vacancy rates in Hong Kong’s main business district dropped to single digits for the first time in 26 months, lifting overall rents in the city’s struggling office property market, according to JLL.
The vacancy rate in Central for premium offices fell to 9.9 per cent in February from 10.1 per cent the previous month, the property consultancy said. The last time a single-digit rate was recorded for grade A offices in the district was in December 2023, when it also hit 9.9 per cent,...</description>
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      <title>Office vacancy rate in Hong Kong’s Central falls to single digits after 2 years</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal,Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal,Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>CK Hutchison Holdings, one of the flagship companies owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s family, reported a 7 per cent increase in underlying profit for 2025, as the company predicted its businesses would face “new and perhaps unforeseen challenges” in 2026.
The ports-to-telecoms conglomerate said on Thursday that underlying profit reached HK$22.3 billion (US$2.85 ‌billion) last year, compared with HK$20.8 billion a year earlier.
Including a one-time ⁠accounting loss, net profit fell...</description>
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      <author>Daniel Ren</author>
      <dc:creator>Daniel Ren</dc:creator>
      <description>GLP, a global operator and investor in logistics, digital infrastructure, renewable energy and finance, is deepening its commitment to China’s growth, projecting as much as a 50 per cent rise in logistics rental rates, supported by stronger domestic consumption and wider adoption of alternative energies.
Angela Zhao, CEO of GLP China, said the country’s 15th five-year development plan for 2026 to 2030 would further cement the company’s role as a global thematic investor in “new economy”...</description>
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      <author>Enid Tsui</author>
      <dc:creator>Enid Tsui</dc:creator>
      <description>Details of the Shenzhen museum being built by Pony Ma Huateng, co-founder and CEO of internet giant Tencent Holdings, were unveiled on March 17 after months of speculation.
In a public letter, Pi Li, the former head of art at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun, revealed that he is the founding director and first employee of Rong Museum of Art, a cultural institution with around 4,500 square metres (48,400 sq ft) in total floor area that will open in 2027.
The name Rong refers to the Chinese character for...</description>
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      <title>Tencent’s Pony Ma to open museum in Shenzhen, led by Tai Kwun’s former head of art Pi Li</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Luxury residential property on Hong Kong’s Peak Road owned by businessman Chan King-wai has been put up for sale by public tender, several years after he acquired it from companies linked to CK group.
Marketing agent JLL said on Monday that the adjoining sites at 86, 88 and 90 Peak Road are being offered for joint sale by tender. The residential lots have a combined area of about 28,620 sq ft.
The site could attract bids of about HK$70,000 (US$8,939) to HK$100,000 per square foot, said Joseph...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong businessman expected to take loss on Peak properties he bought for US$255m</title>
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      <author>Aileen Chuang,Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Aileen Chuang,Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>For Hong Kong’s Topaz Family Office, investing in hotels in Japan holds up as a sound decision even as a Middle East war clouds the macroeconomic environment.
The wealth manager has made Japan a central plank of its pivot into hospitality and real estate over the past two years, driven by a sharp post-pandemic tourism rebound. The investment thesis now looks increasingly robust thanks to multiple structural tailwinds and a growing pool of institutional capital flowing into the same trade.
“Japan...</description>
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      <author>Peggy Ye,Cao Li</author>
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      <description>Buyers snapped up most of the nearly 400 new homes released for sale in Hong Kong on Saturday, offering an early gauge of housing demand in one of the biggest launches since the Chinese New Year holiday.
As of 7:30pm, about 310 of the 360 units released at Chinachem Group’s Zendo House in Tsim Sha Tsui and Wing Tai Properties’ Cloudview in Sheung Shui had been sold, according to Centaline Property.
Louis Chan Wing-kit, vice-chairman and president of the agency, said confidence in Hong Kong’s...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong buyers snap up most of 360 flats at 2 projects as confidence returns</title>
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      <author>Cheryl Arcibal</author>
      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>JPMorgan Chase has committed to leasing about 250,000 sq ft of space in the new Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) office towers in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon district for 10 years, making the US investment bank the anchor tenant of the 700,000 sq ft mixed-use development, the Hong Kong-listed developer said on Friday.
Artist Square Towers (AST) will house the bank’s Kowloon office, which is currently located at The Quayside in Kowloon East, starting in the latter half of 2028, according to an...</description>
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      <title>JPMorgan signs up as anchor tenant for SHKP’s West Kowloon office development</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Swire Properties reported stronger underlying earnings in 2025, as the Hong Kong developer stepped up asset disposals and expanded its mainland China retail portfolio, though weakness in the city’s office market dragged the company into a headline loss.
Underlying profit rose 27 per cent to HK$8.62 billion (US$1.1 billion), driven largely by gains from the disposal of noncore assets including the Brickell City Centre retail mall in Miami and several properties in Hong Kong, according to the...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong developers Swire and Wharf report profit growth amid valuation pressure</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Escalating tensions in the Middle East could redirect global wealth flows and support demand for Hong Kong property, as investors seek stable financial hubs amid rising geopolitical uncertainty, analysts say.
The shift comes as global wealth migration increasingly reshapes luxury property markets from Sydney to Dubai and Hong Kong.
Citigroup said in a report released on Monday that prolonged instability in the region could prompt capital and talent to move out of the Middle East. The report said...</description>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
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      <description>A Singapore-rooted property family has put a rare residential estate in Hong Kong’s Southern district up for tender at about HK$300 million (US$38.4 million), testing demand for trophy homes as the city’s luxury housing market shows early signs of recovery despite soft prices.
The tender for Belvedere, a low-density compound in Chung Hom Kok, would close at noon on April 28, according to marketing agent JLL. The property had been held by Remadour Estate since 1993, Land Registry records...</description>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
      <dc:creator>Peggy Ye</dc:creator>
      <description>Developers in Hong Kong are testing the housing market’s recovery by nudging prices up or paring discounts as improving sentiment and a rebound in transactions boost confidence in the city’s property sector.
But analysts said the moves remained uneven, with many newly launched projects still offering sizeable concessions as developers continued to prioritise clearing unsold inventory accumulated during the market downturn.
New World Development plans to cut the discount offered under the 120-day...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong developers test home-market recovery by raising prices, trimming discounts</title>
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      <author>Zhu Wenqian</author>
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      <description>For Steven Zhou, a 40-year-old Beijing office worker, suburban outlet stores offer a better shopping experience than urban malls, allowing him to escape the city, park his car without frustration and, most importantly, find good deals.
“Outlets offer a wide selection of brands, with attractive discounts, especially on sportswear,” Zhou said.
Across the mainland, outlets are expanding while traditional and luxury malls face high vacancy rates. Offering well-known brands at discounted prices,...</description>
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      <title>China’s shoppers head for suburban outlets, a bright spot in retail property</title>
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      <author>Peggy Ye</author>
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      <description>From Sydney to Hong Kong, wealth migration is reshaping the global super-luxury property market as activity picks up after two subdued years – though the dominance of relative newcomer Dubai is now being tested by the war in the Middle East.
In Sydney, Peter Li, general manager at Plus Agency, said commission revenues on super-luxury homes had risen about 20 per cent from a year earlier. The firm, which handles more than US$300 million in annual sales, has hired six new staff members since...</description>
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      <description>The recovery in Hong Kong’s property market has begun attracting overseas investors back to the sector, with the Hang Seng Properties Index rising more than 20 per cent this year.
International investors, who have had limited exposure to Hong Kong property stocks over the past two to three years, had begun revisiting the sector and adding positions since the start of 2026, according to Citi.
At a recent global investor conference hosted by the US bank, participants said they were showing greater...</description>
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      <description>Singapore is the most expensive city in the Asia-Pacific region to outfit an office, driven by increased labour costs, a shortage of contractors and strict building standards, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank.
The city had the highest average fit-out cost at US$2,029 per square metre – ahead of Tokyo (US$1,994) and Taipei (US$1,593) – in the firm’s survey of 23 cities across Australasia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and India. It was also the most expensive place to set up an...</description>
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      <description>McDonald’s has sold another Hong Kong retail property for HK$93.5 million (US$11.9 million), extending its asset sell-down and bringing total proceeds to about HK$580 million.
The ground-floor unit at Mount Sterling Mall in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, was sold on February 27 to Huge Power (China) Ltd., according to Land Registry records.
Companies Registry filings show the directors as Kwok Chong-wah, Kwok Lap-yin and Kwok Shun-sing, members of a veteran investor family.
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      <description>Hong Kong’s government-backed investment fund is being redeployed to support the city’s sluggish commercial property sector, signaling authorities’ growing willingness to use public funds as a policy tool to steady office valuations and align real estate investment with the city’s industrial ambitions.
Attracting foreign institutions, however, might prove challenging. The city’s elevated vacancy rates, looming new completions and uncertain rental recovery have kept global funds on the sidelines,...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong’s strategy for HKIC to prop up city’s office market seen as challenging</title>
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      <description>Minna Honkanen could not have anticipated the seismic events that would grip Hong Kong after she decided to try her luck there in early 2019.
Two months after she arrived, unprecedented social unrest engulfed the city, followed immediately by the coronavirus pandemic, which shut borders and restricted travel for more than two years.
Least of all did the Finnish national imagine she would become a luxury property agent in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets, securing exclusive...</description>
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      <dc:creator>Cheryl Arcibal</dc:creator>
      <description>Hong Kong’s struggling office landlords are ramping up efforts to convert their assets into co-working spaces and student accommodation in a bid to adapt to intense competition and the flight to quality, according to analysts.
With some 3.5 million sq ft of new premium office space expected to be completed this year and next, on top of the 4.5 million sq ft added in 2024 and 2025, tenants are increasingly choosing to relocate to new and modern offices, leading to diverging fortunes for big...</description>
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      <author>Aileen Chuang</author>
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      <description>Major Hong Kong developer Sino Land posted a steady net profit for the six months ended December, propped up by early gains from a recovery in the city’s residential property market.
Sino Land reported a net profit of HK$2.22 billion (US$284 million) in the first half of its current financial year – excluding revaluation losses on investment properties – that was slightly down from HK$2.24 billion a year earlier, according to its Hong Kong stock exchange filing on Friday.
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      <description>New World Development posted a net loss of HK$3.73 billion (US$477 million) for the first half of fiscal 2026, as asset write-downs continued to weigh on earnings despite improving Hong Kong home sales and ongoing deleveraging efforts.
The loss narrowed 44 per cent year on year for the six months ended December 31, as impairments on investment properties eased and financing and tax expenses related to mainland projects declined, according to a Hong Kong stock exchange filing on Friday. No...</description>
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      <description>Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), Hong Kong’s largest developer by market capitalisation, reported a 36.2 per cent year-on-year jump in first-half net profit to HK$10.25 billion (US$1.3 billion).
Revenue rose 32 per cent to HK$52.7 billion for the six months ended December from a year earlier, while operating income increased 10.7 per cent to HK$13.4 billion, the developer said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday. Underlying profit, which discounts property revaluations, gained...</description>
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