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HSBC Holdings Plc, the largest bank in Hong Kong, warned that the city's commercial property sector continues to face “downward pressure” after bad loan provisions jumped this year....

Hong Kong's lived-in home prices rose 1.3 per cent in September, logging their biggest gains so far this year and reaching their highest in more than a year, amid optimism that the residential market has bottomed out. The city's rental prices, meanwhile, inched within a hair of their historical peak, data from the Rating and Valuation Department showed on Tuesday. The latest monthly increase in secondary home prices marks the sixth consecutive month in which the official index has either......

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When Blackstone Inc. bet on Hong Kong's commercial real estate sector in 2014, it bought a 20,000-square-foot retail space in the bustling Mong Kok district for HK$700 million ($90 million) to target mainland Chinese tourists seeking brand-name wear....

Hong Kong is riding a 10-month high in transactions involving upmarket real estate deals, with former chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group Holding Zhang Yong joining the wave after purchasing a luxury home in Mid-Levels for HK$53.54 million (US$6.89 million). In the first 20 days of October, 78 first-hand private residential sales priced between HK$30 million and HK$49.99 million were registered, according to Land Registry data. “This represents a 24 per cent increase from the 63 transactions for......

When predicting and assessing the shape of recoveries, analysts have made use of letters of the alphabet. A V-shaped recovery denotes a sharp rebound following a steep downturn. If the recovery takes a U-shape, however, both the trough of the downturn and the recovery last much longer. An L-shaped recovery signifies that activity never recovers meaningfully. In Hong Kong, pinning a letter to the trajectory of an industry is easiest in the financial sector. The city's equity market has staged a......

Challenges from commercial property credit quality will persist for Hong Kong banks next year, though these may be balanced by prospects in capital markets and yuan business, according to the head of the city's de facto central bank. “The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will continue to monitor the credit quality of the property sector, which will continue to be a challenge for the banking sector next year,” said chief executive Eddie Yue Wai-man in an exclusive interview. However, there was no......

The property management arm of indebted mainland Chinese real estate developer Redsun Properties Group said on Friday that more than 72 per cent of its shares had been seized by receivers, after its controlling shareholder defaulted on a pledge. The holding company of Redsun Services Group had pledged about 302 million shares of the Hong Kong-listed firm as collateral for notes issued by Hong Seng Limited, an affiliated company, as part of the developer's 2024 debt restructuring plan, according......

Hong Kong developer Sino Land's chairman, Daryl Ng Win Kong, is confident about the outlook for the city's property market next year, noting multiple positive signals have emerged boosting the market. Chief among the factors were the start of a lower interest-rate cut cycle and a robust initial public offering market, Ng said after the company's annual general meeting on Wednesday, his first since being appointed chairman in August. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority reduced rates in September for......

Mainland Chinese homebuyers remain a strong driving force in Hong Kong's residential property market, spending HK$38 billion (US$4.9 billion) to account for 25 per cent of the city's total home transactions in the third quarter, according to Centaline Property Agency. Buyers with names in pinyin – the mainland's system of romanisation of Chinese script – registered 3,797 deals between July and September, up 7 per cent from the previous quarter, Centaline said in a report on Monday. It noted that......

Hong Kong's residential property market is gradually mending investor sentiment, according to analysts, who are nonetheless cautious about a full recovery amid geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainties. Investors accounted for 20 per cent of the market's total transactions so far in 2025, according to UBS property analyst Mark Leung, who added that some districts with residential projects near universities might have a higher proportion. The average gross rental yield for mass residential......

Canadian athletic apparel retailer Lululemon has become the latest tenant of Hongkong Land's mixed-use project Westbund Central in Shanghai, adding lustre to a waterfront area in the city's southwestern Xuhui district amid a property downtrend. The company would officially open its China store support centre on October 27, a move to show Lululemon's vibrancy in line with the development of the West Bund, an emerging central business district (CBD) built on the 11km-long zone, according to Ng San......

The son of former financial secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen has bought property in Kowloon, joining a growing number of affluent buyers snapping up homes in Hong Kong amid improving confidence in the residential market. Two connected units at Wheelock Properties' Kadoorie Hill luxury project were sold for HK$36.4 million (US$4.7 million) each and handed over on October 3, according to the Land Registry. The flats were bought through two entities, Jumbo Bridge and Risking Sky. William Harry Tang......

Hong Kong property sales in September saw an increase in the number of deals and value on the back of easing interest rates and a resurgent stock market, according to property agents. Deals covering new and lived-in homes, office spaces, shops, car parking slots as well as industrial units were estimated to have risen 6.2 per cent month on month to 6,862 units in September, with the total value up 14 per cent to HK$54.35 billion (US$6.98 billion), according to Centaline, one of the city's......

Hong Kong stocks jumped on Thursday after a one-day break, as signs of stabilisation in the property sector and gains in technology firms boosted sentiment. The Hang Seng Index shot up 1.3 per cent to 27,191.99 as of 9.55am local time. The Hang Seng Tech Index added 2.2 per cent. Mainland stock exchanges are closed for the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays from Wednesday through October 8. Technology firms led the rise. Short-video platform Kuaishou Technology soared 8 per cent to......

Hong Kong's bid to be an international education hub is spurring investments in the city's battered commercial property segment, with hotels being converted to student housing and schools becoming a major driver of leasing in the retail sector, according to analysts. So far this year, investors have spent HK$2.6 billion (US$334 million) in the student accommodation segment, including Hong Kong Metropolitan University's acquisition of the Urbanwood Hung Hom Hotel, which was converted into student......

Hong Kong's lived-in home prices rose by 0.14 per cent in August, according to the latest official data, suggesting a gradual recovery in the city's struggling residential property market. An official index measuring price movement among the city's second-hand homes made a modest gain for the fifth straight month, narrowing this year's price decline to 0.24 per cent, according to data from the Rating and Valuation Department (RVD) released on Friday. Since April, Hong Kong's home prices have......

HSBC Holdings has taken the unusual step of getting directly involved in pushing its Hong Kong subsidiary, Hang Seng Bank, to offload portfolios of bad real estate debt, underscoring growing concerns over the city's struggling property sector. About two months ago, the lender directed its London-based global chief corporate credit officer and the head of its special credit unit to ensure Hang Seng started a process of selling portfolios, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked......

The resumption of a policy easing cycle following the US Federal Reserve's quarter-point interest-rate reduction is likely to spur more investments into property globally, according to analysts. For mainland China and Hong Kong, however, the impact could be less significant owing to fundamental and geopolitical strains, they added. “Rarely do central banks do 'one and done',” said Pamela Ambler, head of capital markets research for Asia-Pacific at JLL. “This [Fed] cut is likely to kick off a......