... ad. A 210 square foot unit there is selling for HK$4.87 million, so a down payment of HK$1.95 million is needed. If one saves HK$3,000 out of a monthly salary of HK$15,000, it will take 54 years to as ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
... rea of 25 square meters -- five meters wide and five meters high -- and is magnified by cramped space between buildings. Charming Garden, the nearest building, is only 20 meters away. James To, a coun ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
... to 2,100-square-foot in area and shouldn't be more than three storeys high. If Civic Exchange is correct, the government needs to give out 11 to 12 square kilometers of land -- equivalent to one-sixt ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... ze of 100 square meters per unit. The supply has surpassed the annual incremental demand of 8 million units. China’s housing market has a total of 10 million vacant homes, according to Zhu Min, deput ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... a tiny 7-square-kilometer patch of land, declaring it as the "Free Republic of Liberland". The initiative has drawn a lot of attention from the media. It is also interesting to note that Jedlicka cla ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... er 10,000 square feet. Wong Pak-yan, a representative of the civil servants cooperative building society, called the criteria too harsh. “To get 100 percent ownership approval is extremely difficult. ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
... o million square meters of retail space in terms of gross floor area. The airport authority will not sell the new property being developed, but will instead be a partner in the entire venture, said Lo ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
A penthouse in Hong Kong's Taikoo Shing has been sold for HK$26.8 million, or HK$22,700 per square foot, setting a new transaction record for the residential estate in the Quarry Bay area. The unit at ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
... 6,502 per square foot, 8.3 percent above market estimates. It's the first development site in nearly 17 years for the property arm of Chinese conglomerate CITIC Ltd. (00267.HK), the Hong Kong Economic ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. But the editorial stressed that “those students that led the protests in 1989 have all grown up and aligned themselves with China’s rapid development as unwavering pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... out 1,400 square feet. Finishes will include marble for kitchens and baths. There will also be bidet-style toilets, the kind that are popular overseas. But while Yau said that he welcomed foreign buye ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai to join an official flag-raising ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-Shing urged the students to develop ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... 9 million square feet of new prime office supply in the city in the coming five years, with over half of them in East Kowloon. Translation by Vey Wong [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us at english@hke ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... ed 18,000 square feet of farmland at Kwu Tung since 1994. The land was in the area covered by the development plan for the northeast New Territories project, and Chan should have been aware of the con ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... price per square foot for a sub-divided unit in Tsuen Wan has already hit somewhere between HK$38 and HK$48, far exceeding the average rate of HK$32.8 of the top 100 private housing estates across the ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
... for 1,000 square feet of living space MPF Authority chairman David Wong Yau-kar has said that the agency could look into the feasibility of allowing MPF contributions to be used for home purchases. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... below 400 square feet. The price started from HK$3.32 million (US$428,200), which is the cheapest in Kowloon in the past six months. The price per square foot is around HK$13,899. Because the lump sum ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... of 20,000 square feet. Issac Ng, a lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong and a former non-executive board member of the URA, said the rate of acquisitions is not the only decisive factor for an ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... o 623,200 square meters – after falling for eight consecutive months from April 2014. “The population is too small and volume of business too low,” said Liang Minggui, who moved to the city from the e ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... is now 1 square millimeter. "A few years ago," he says, "it was two or three times as big and two or three times less refined." When they can harvest energy from the body's heat or motion they'll be ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
