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                     Hong Kong property deals rise to 3-month high as buyers benefit from rate cut (SCMP)
                  
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                     Hong Kong property deals surged to a three-month high in October, a month after the US Federal Reserve and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) loosened monetary policies again this year since a pause that began in December.
Sales of new and second-hand homes – as well as office units, shops, industrial properties and parking spaces – rose 4.7 per cent to 7,190 units, up from 6,870 units in September, according to data released by the Land Registry on Tuesday. That was the most since July's......
                   
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                     RBA holds official interest rate at 3.6% while warning of rising house prices and rents (The Guardian)
                  
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                     Reserve Bank's decision to leave cash rate on hold was widely expected and major banks predict no interest rates cut until 2026Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank has left the official interest rate on hold, as it warned house prices and rents will rise in 2026 after a surprise rebound in inflation.The RBA's monetary policy board on Tuesday unanimously voted to keep the cash rate at 3.6%, where it has sat since August. Continue reading......
                   
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                     Schroders CEO: Working Through HK Property Challenges (Bloomberg)
                  
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                     Richard Oldfield, Group Chief Executive at Schroders, says the company is working through market challenges in Hong Kong's commercial real estate. He speaks with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on the sidelines of the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong. 
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                     HKMA: HK Commercial Real Estate Still Facing Challenges (Bloomberg)
                  
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                     Eddie Yue, Chief Executive at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, says the city's residential property market has stabilized, while the commercial real estate scene is still facing some challenges. He speaks with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on the sidelines of the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong. 
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                     South Korea is not headed for a Japanese-style housing bust (SCMP)
                  
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                     South Korean President Lee Jae-myung does not mince his words. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Lee said South Korea's residential property market was a bubble waiting to burst. He called the housing market a “ticking bomb” and said South Korea could go the way of early 1990s Japan, whose epic real estate bust condemned the nation to decades of stagnation and deflation.
Such alarmist talk from a president who took office in June after pledging to stabilise the housing market and improve......
                   
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                     Rachel Reeves′s housing scandal was a small administrative error, but a big political mistake | Oliver Eagleton (The Guardian)
                  
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                     At a time of austerity, and with Labour's housing policies needing years to take effect, the public doesn't want to hear about ministers with multiple homesAt first glance, the story might seem trivial: a bureaucratic slip-up with few tangible consequences which will soon recede from the headlines. To be sure, the scandal over Rachel Reeves's housing situation is no Watergate. Her failure to get the right licence for her south London property, which she began renting out once she moved to Downing Street – potentially putting her in breach of the law as well as the ministerial code – is a minor blip compared with the country's multiple social crises. The prime minister said the affair was a “regrettable” but “inadvertent” error, while the Tories have called for the chancellor to resign. Yet neither party appears to have grasped its deeper political significance.Two other senior Labour figures have also recently been pushed out over housing troubles: former deputy prime minister Angela Rayne...
                   
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