... Henderson Land Development, Sun Hung Kai Properties and CK Asset Holdings, have all said that they would welcome the government's plan. Commenting on NWD's planned special scheme for young university ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
... Henderson Land is offering 100 units of social housing in Kowloon City for HK$1 while New World Development is providing a substantial subsidy to university students in its first-time buyer scheme in ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
One misconception about Hong Kong’s housing conundrum is that the city lacks land. That is not the case given the size of the territory: 1,105 square kilometers. The key to understanding the crisis is ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
... aff to Holland to see how it manages container homes and concluded Hong Kong can take reference from it. According to Chua, HKCSS has been studying the feasibility of containers as temporary housing f ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
... Force on Land Supply, which Carrie Lam created to reach public consensus on how to ease the housing shortage. Tang’s appointment also eased the burden of Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, who ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
... ysia, Thailand and Singapore, shrink to unprecedented levels. Asian financial markets, however, quickly responded, and recovered, and thereafter emerged as some of the world’s most resilient economies ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
... ux of mainland capital. All property developers have similar business model. They buy a land plot in the first place, and then build houses on the land, and sell or lease them. It takes at least two y ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-15
Secretary for Development Michael Wong Wai-lun said short-term tenancies of public land have not been transparent enough and he intends to improve the situation as soon as possible, the Hong Kong Econ ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-14
... s the mainlanders’ monthly disposable income of 2,155 yuan. The phone’s belated availability due to a manufacturing bottleneck -- online booking won’t start until more than a month later on Oct. 27 an ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-13
The Lands Department is being accused of dragging its feet over an illegally occupied government site in Tuen Mun for more than 20 years. The plot is occupied by businessman Chan Tin-chi who built a t ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-13
... lling mainland tourist arrivals and lackluster trade activities with China, the excellent performance of Taiwan players in the Summer Universiade has boosted the spirits of local residents. Mayor Ko m ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-13
... Force on Land Supply, which will seek to reach public consensus on how to boost land supply to ease the city's housing shortage. Indeed, there's life after politics. In the case of former financial s ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
It’s not uncommon that sites close to major highways and rail lines have been identified or rezoned for public housing, in an all-out land hunt to provide subsidized homes for the 300,000 applicants c ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
Flats to be offered under the government’s new housing scheme are likely to cost half the market price, Apple Daily reports, citing Stanley Wong Yuen-fai, chair of the newly formed Task Force on Land ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
... likely to land its second headquarters in a cheaper city than Seattle and score subsidies. The company promised up to 50,000 jobs averaging more than US$100,000 in annual compensation over the next 10 ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
... Force on Land Supply, which held its first meeting on Wednesday, Lam said she will attend some of its meetings to express her demands and hopes. There has always been a gap between the HOS and the pl ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
The Observation Wheel at the Central harbourfront has been saved from demolition after the old and new holders of land-lease rights to the site reached an agreement on the transfer of the facility on ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
