{"id":3071,"date":"2016-10-06T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2023-11-03T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T03:07:10","slug":"oct-6s-property-news-roundup-kerry-wins-kowloon-tong-site-for-hk7-2b-mortgage-war-at-h1-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/oct-6s-property-news-roundup-kerry-wins-kowloon-tong-site-for-hk7-2b-mortgage-war-at-h1-35","title":{"rendered":"Oct 6&#8217;s Property News Roundup: Kerry wins Kowloon Tong site for HK$7.2b, mortgage war at H+1.35%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kerry wins Kowloon Tong site for $7.2billion<\/strong><br \/>\nKerry Properties beat ten other companies for a government site at Beacon Hill, Kowloon Tong at\u00a0a bid of HK$7.2688 billion, or HK$21,204 per square foot, making it the most expensive land sale in Kowloon. The price is at the upper end of the market&#8217;s expectation and is the highest since the site in Ho Man Tin was sold for HK$11.68 billion in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Macquarie Expects Rise in Real Estate Stocks<\/strong><br \/>\nMacquarie analysts believed that there are 5 factors supporting Hong Kong&#8217;s property price, including local banks decreasing\u00a0mortgage rate, the low\u00a0US interest rate, Brexit effect, etc. Macquarie predicts the town&#8217;s property price may have a 5% rise while the stock prices of CKH Holdings (001), Sun Hung Kai Properties (016) and New World Development (017) will be outperformed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2159\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/zh-tw\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/25376468551_3a89056aea_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-image-2159 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/zh-tw\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/25376468551_3a89056aea_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\u672c\u6e2f\u6a13\u5e02\u7372\u770b\u597d\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macquarie expects a great performance from the local real estate stocks. Image from\uff1a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75487768@N04\/\" rel=\"noopener\">barnyx<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mortgage War Starts Again H+1.35%<\/strong><br \/>\nSources said the Hong Kong big banks have lowered mortgage rate in a price war at Hong Kong inter-bank offered rate plus 1.35%, with a mortgage loan of HK$10 million. Some other banks have also offered loan of lower than H+1.4% after bargaining with\u00a0clients. Miss\u00a0Ivy Wong, Managing Director of Centaline Mortgage Broker said the banks will offer H+1.35% mortgage in the coming stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two New Projects Receiving Overwhelming Orders<\/strong><br \/>\nThe two biggest new projects\u00a0Marina South and <a href=\"http:\/\/islandgarden.com.hk\/index?lang_name=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored\">Island Garden<\/a> both received overwhelming orders from the market. Marina South has received more than 200 pre-orders for the developer&#8217;s 30 units offer tomorrow. Island Garden by Nan Fung has also received more than 150 pre-orders, mostly by residents in Hong Kong Island East.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2108\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/zh-tw\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2108\" class=\"wp-image-2108 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/zh-tw\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0004-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\u5357\u8c50\u65d7\u4e0b\u7b72\u7b95\u7063\u9999\u5cf6\u8a8d\u8cfc\u53cd\u61c9\u71b1\u70c8\u3002\u5716\u7247\u4f86\u6e90\uff1aIsland Garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Garden by Nan Fung has received more than 150 pre-orders.\u00a0Image from\uff1aIsland Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sham Shui Po Project attracts 11 Bids<\/strong><br \/>\nThe medium-scaled redevelopment project by the Urban Renewal Authority in Sham Shui Po has received 11 bids. The site will be revamped into an 80-unit tower. Surveyors estimate the market value of the site is between HK$263 million and HK$368 million, or HK$5,000 to HK$7,000 per square foot.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on property news and prices, please go to our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/zh-tw\">https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry wins Kowloon Tong site for $7.2billion Kerry Properties beat ten other companies for a government site at Beacon Hill, Kowloon Tong at\u00a0a bid of HK$7.2688 billion, or HK$21,204 per square foot, making it the most expensive land sale in Kowloon. The price is at the upper end of the market&#8217;s expectation and is the highest since the site in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[69,68,70,76,67],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-property","tag-headline","tag-hot-news","tag-hot-news-headline","tag-news","tag-spacious-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}