1) Use a map view search.<\/p>\n
When searching for property in Hong Kong, you generally have two kinds of people browsing:<\/p>\n
People who know the area they want to live in very well;
Others who are new to an area.<\/p>\n
Portals in Hong Kong and most Asian cities offer only a list view search mechanism. If you don\u2019t know where you want to search, then all you see is a long list of properties. Requiring a user to pre-select a neighbourhood or building in a city they know nothing about is not helpful.<\/p>\n
If you do know which neighbourhood you want to live in, then there\u2019s a game agents play, which you will probably fall victim to. Neighbourhood boundaries in Hong Kong can be vague; ask 10 agents where the boundary between Mid-Levels Central and Mid-Levels East is and you will probably get 10 different answers. Agents use this ambiguity to list a property in a more popular neighbourhood when in fact it may belong in an adjacent neighbourhood or somewhere different altogether. In a list search agents know people will select specific neighbourhoods and buildings in the drop-downs so why not list your property there. This is another trap agents use to reel in customers.<\/p>\n
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Using a map view search, you can get around both of these problems.<\/p>\n
For people who don\u2019t know a neighbourhood well, identifying where a building is in relation to schools, MTR stations, convenience stores, and launderettes is critical in the property-search process, and there\u2019s no better solution than to use map view search. Many key decisions around finding a place to live revolve around the location of the apartment and surrounding amenities or public facilities, and using a map is a logical solution.<\/p>\n
Having been a victim of the \u201cwrong neighbourhood\u201d scam a few times myself, we decided from the inception of Spacious<\/a> to map out the different neighbourhoods boundaries to give people a clear idea of where a property is listed. When agents list a property with us, we use the address of the building to determine which neighbourhood a listing should reside based on pre-defined boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\nEasyExpat.com: Information for Expatriates, Expat Guides<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1) Use a map view search. When searching for property in Hong Kong, you generally have two kinds of people browsing: People who know the area they want to live in very well;Others who are new to an area. Portals in Hong Kong and most Asian cities offer only a list view search mechanism. If you don\u2019t know where you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-property","tag-house-hunting-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}