Insights – Asia Pacific Research

Housing market cooled off in the second quarter with total registered transactions for residential property fell 13% q-o-q to 12,199 due to the prospects for further interest rates increase and the failure of China’s recovery to live up to high expectations.

Of the total agreements recorded during the Q2, only 8,630 were specifically for the secondary market, indicating a 23% decrease from a quarter earlier. Nevertheless, new home sales saw a substantial 27% q-o-q increase to 3,569 registered contracts, hitting a 3-quarter high, mainly bolstered by the decent sales of competitively priced new projects.

The luxury homes market bucked the downward trend in the local property market. For instance, a 7,042 sq ft (s.a.) detached house at Mount Nicholson in The Peak, was transacted at……

Dampened by the rise in local mortgage rates, total registered residential transactions dived 13% m-o-m to 4,003 cases in May, marking the second consecutive month of decline and a 4-month low. Potential buyers with lower affordability had turned more cautious due to the home prices saw a strong comeback with about 5.6% rally in the first four months of this year.

Developers slowed down for the new launches during the month, dragging down the number of first-hand residential property transactions by a whopping 35% to 1,000, while the secondary home deals slid by…

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The housing market cooled off in April as the large number of outbound traveling during the long Easter and Ching Ming holiday, with total residential transactions dropped 31% from a month earlier to 4,583 cases. Of these, new home sales fell 13% m-o-m to 1,550 cases, while secondary market deals slumped 38% m-o-m to 3,033 in April.

Looking ahead, enthusiasm for purchasing second-hand flats seems to have dampened by the fact that many new developments being sold at low prices and the specter of interest rate hikes….

Housing market had a strong rebound in the first quarter this year, as sentiment recovered on expectations of slower interest rate increases and an improvement in economic outlook following the reopening of borders with Mainland China.

The number of residential property deals hitting a 3-quarter high to 14,023 in Q1, a climb of 67% from a quarter earlier. Of these, the sales of new homes soared 118% q-o-q to 2,805 while the secondary market saw 11,218 transactions, jumped 58% from Q4 last year.

Home prices rekindled from the gloomy picture as buyer’s confidence has come back after the government removed stringent Covid-19 restrictions. The home price index swiftly rose by 5.3% in the first quarter after a 15% plunge last year……

This quarterly publication contains the latest social and economic statistics of China, as well as a detailed analysis of the residential, office and retail markets. (The content of this quarterly publication is only available in Simplified Chinese.)

The housing market has picked up steam, thanks to the full reopening of the border and the tax cut on first-time buyers. The number of transactions for residential hit an 8-month high to 4,282 in February, surged 40% from a month earlier. Of these, new home sales soared 80% m-o-m to 655 cases while secondary market saw a m-o-m jump of 35% to 3,627, marking the highest level in nine months.

Luxury home sales were buoyant in February, for instance, SHKP sold a 1,574-sq ft four-bedroom flat at The Cullinan atop Kowloon MTR Station for a lofty HK$132 million……

Residential market bloomed in the start of 2023 as long-waited border reopening with the mainland China have come into real eventually. The number of transactions rebounded 22% m-o-m to 3,051 in January after the fourth consecutive month of decline. Of these, the sales of new homes soared 47% m-o-m to 363 while the secondary market saw 2,688 transactions in January, jumped 19% from the previous month.

Home prices rekindled after seventh consecutive month of declines, with a bounce of 0.6% m-o-m to 336.1 in January as the government has removed stringent Covid-19 restrictions. However, the rental index retreated 0.63% from December last year to 173.9 in January, marking the fifth consecutive month of fall……

Housing market remains mired in a record slow down as dampened market sentiment amid the economic downturn and rising mortgage rates. The number of residential transactions in the last quarter of 2022 dived 28% q-o-q to 8,386 cases, hit a 27-quarter low since Q2 2016. For 2022 full year, only 45,050 deals registered, a decrease of 39% lower compared with a year earlier and nosedived to a new low since records started in 1997.

Last quarter, the number of new home sales tumbled 69% over the third quarter 2022 to only 1,284 deals as developers put new launches on held under the sluggish property market…….

The number of transactions for residential property in November reached the lowest level since February 2020 amid rising mortgage rates and bleak economic outlook, dropped 13% m-o-m to only 2,731 cases and hit the third consecutive straight month fall. In November, secondary home deals edged down 4% m-o-m to 2,366 registrations while sales in primary market sank 46% to only 365 transactions.

Along with the depressed sentiment, the private domestic price index…..