The number of mortgages for
pre-sold homes soared 178 percent month-on-month to a 27-month high of
around 800 in June, according to the city's two major mortgage
consultants.
The surge
resulted from a series of new projects put on the market after the
removal of housing curbs by the government in late February.
One of the mortgage broker
said borrowing for homes under construction increased to 804 cases last
month, while another broker put the figure at 775 cases.
The
latest figure was 611 percent higher from a year ago and the number for
the first half rose by 147 percent year-on-year to 1,653, data from the
first broker showed.
Mortgages
for completed flats also hit an eight-month high in June. The first
broker saw the number jump by 38.4 percent month-on-month to 4,943 in
June while the other one recorded a 39 percent rise to 4,705 over the
same period.
But the
number related to completed homes was still 41 percent lower than a year
ago, dragged down by the sluggish market before the stimulus in
February, according to the first broker.
The
first half of the year recorded 24,530 cases for completed units, 39
percent lower than a year earlier, hitting a historic low since records
started in 2001.
Mortgages for unfinished homes were mainly boosted by sales at projects including Yoho West in Tin Shui Wai, Uptown East in Kowloon Bay, Belgravia Place in Cheung Sha Wan and Baker Circle in Hung Hom.
Meanwhile, buyers of Novo Land in Tuen Mun contributed to at least 20 percent of new mortgage loans for completed homes last month.
Since developers continue to reduce inventory, the number of mortgage loans is expected to keep rising, both brokers noted.
However,
the number of real estate agents decreased by 125 to 38,918 last month,
a new six-year low, data from the Estate Agents Authority showed.
Home
prices remain under pressure. A report from a real estate agency showed
that the recent new projects are priced at over 10 percent lower than
the 2015 levels, squeezing the secondary market.
In
other news, the first phase of the Pavilia Forest in Kai Tak, which was
co-developed by New World Development (0017) and Far East Consortium
(0035), opened one two-bedroom show flat yesterday.
(The Standard)
‘Race to the bottom’: Hong Kong home prices slump to multi-year lows, with change far off
Recent
launches have sold poorly despite decade-low prices, while prices of
lived-in flats hit a nearly eight-year low, according to a property
agency
Hong
Kong’s lacklustre home sales are weighing on prices, with recent
new-unit launches selling poorly despite decade-low prices and prices of
lived-in flats skidding to a nearly eight-year low, according to a
property agency.
Although
the trend varies among the city’s districts, several new developments
have hit the market with prices more than 10 per cent below those of
similar projects in 2015, the property consultancy said in its latest
report. Worse yet, sell-through rates have failed to impress despite the
discounts.
“Hong Kong home prices have been on a race to the bottom in the last four to eight weeks,” an agent said.
With
interest rates still at a 23-year high in Hong Kong, the forecast for
sales remains downbeat, according to another property agency.
“Clearly,
owner-occupiers are experiencing dwindling confidence in the market,”
the first agency said in the report. “Factors such as job security and
wage growth, which were once stable and reliable, have now become
significant concerns.”
In
May, the average price of a new class A unit, defined as a flat with a
size of less than 431 sq ft, in Yau Ma Tei was HK$20,346 (US$2,605) per
square foot, a 10.6 per cent decrease from HK$22,768 in 2015. Meanwhile,
in Kennedy Town, average per-square-foot prices were down 6 per cent to
HK$22,022 from HK$23,424 in 2015.
Yet Henderson Land’s The Haddon
in Hung Hom, for example, only sold a fifth of the 63 units it put on
offer on the first day of sales last month. Also late last month, not
one of 30 units put on sale at Continental’s Amber Place in Cheung Sha
Wan sold during the launch weekend.
Meanwhile,
secondary home prices are also suffering, with the official price index
from the Rating and Valuation Department reverting to a declining trend
in May after registering a small increase in April.
It
fell 1.22 per cent in May, reversing a 0.5 per cent improvement in
April, and the May index reading of 305.9 is comparable to that of
November 2016 at 306.7, the agency said.
Recent
trends in Hong Kong property deals suggest that enthusiasm over the
lifting of all property cooling restrictions in February dissipated
after two months of improving sales in March and April.
Following
a decline of more than a quarter in May, transactions of private
residential units sank by 36 per cent in June to 4,165, compared with
the previous month, according to data from another property agency.
The
total number of property transactions – encompassing everything from
homes and car parks to shops, industrial units and offices – fell 33 per
cent to 4,939 as of June 27, from 7,361 in May.
The latest official data on property sales is likely to come out this week.
“It
is estimated that residential transaction volume in the second half of
the year will shrink by about 20 per cent compared with the first half,”
another agentsaid. “As for developers, they will still use a low-price
strategy to sell their stock, so property prices may also fall by
another 3 per cent in the second half of the year.”
The
agency added that more “supportive demand-side policies” were needed to
restore demand-supply balance and cushion the downward spiral of home
prices.
(South China Morning Post)
新紀元廣場意向呎租36元
上環指標甲廈新紀元廣場低座中層全層放租，有代理表示，皇后大道中181號的新紀元廣場低座12樓全層，面積達15451方呎，意向呎租約36元；業主傾向出租作長線投資，亦接受洽購，該盤早前曾以每方呎約40元作招租，最新因應市況調低10%。
業主提供裝修津貼
該代理續稱，該單位擁有開揚園景，業主提供免租期外，更提供裝修津貼及室內泊車位等配套服務，而該廈租客包括滙豐銀行及中國銀行，由該廈步行至港澳碼頭需時8分鐘。
該代理續指，同廈中層全層單位，面積約15787方呎，以呎租41元租出；毗鄰新紀元廣場高座中遠大廈中層單位，面積約12392方呎，亦以每呎37元租出。
(星島日報)
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聯合出版1.3億 購觀塘俊匯中心兩層
東九龍再錄低價成交，觀塘俊匯中心兩層以1.33億沽出，呎價6,287元，買家為聯合出版集團。
資料顯示，觀塘鴻圖道22號俊匯中心28及29樓連天台易手，物業面積合共約21,154平方呎，並連同一個約1,608平方呎平台，以及5個車位，以1.33億元易手，平均呎價6,287元，呎價重回約十多年前水平。
呎價6287 原業主10年蝕7368萬
據悉，買家為聯合出版集團，該集團去年尾亦有購入商廈，涉及灣仔資本中心23樓全層，以2.4億元成交，以面積約15,727平方呎計，呎價15,260元。
此外，該集團去年中以3,800萬元，購入北角英皇道東祥工廠大廈9樓全層。
是次俊匯中心單位原由商人持有，2014年以近2.1億購入兩全層單位自用，持貨10年，帳面勁蝕7,368萬，物業貶值36%。事實上，近期東九龍已錄多宗商廈低價成交，包括九龍灣富臨中心全層以1.6億元沽出，呎價僅約6,644元創新低，原業主持貨6年蝕逾半離場。
(經濟日報)
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屯門悅品酒店 銀主放售估值15億
鄧成波家族持有 共提供430房間
鄧成波家族再有物業被接管，家族旗下屯門悅品度假酒店早前進行放售未獲承接，近期遭接管並委託代理出售，涉430間房，市場估值約15億元。
有外資代理行表示，獲接管人委託放售新界屯門建豐街4號「悅品度假酒店．屯門」。物業位於屯門建豐街及震寰路交界，樓高共14層，落成年份為1982年，總建築面積約227,107平方呎，共提供430間客房，停車位數目共23個。市場人士估計物業市值約15億元，每間房價值約350萬元。
該行代理指，物業交通便捷，步行至港鐵屯門站僅3分鐘。另一代理稱，項目屬香港首間度假主題酒店，更附設商舖、餐廳、會議室、兒童遊戲室及戶外游泳池等設備，現時酒店平均入住率為90%。
翻查資料，2013年鄧成波斥近5億元購入物業前身屯門有成工業大廈，其後活化改裝成酒店，並於2019年開業。去年該家族亦委託測量師行出售，惟未獲承接，近日更淪銀主盤。
鄧成波家族今年繼續沽貨，惟部分未沽售物業，近日先後遭接管。包括荃灣海濱廣場商場，近年多番出售但未獲承接，早前被接管料短期內放售，估值約8億元。
馬亞木集團6288萬 售采頤舖
另有代理表示，新蒲崗采頤花園地下757至764號舖位，以6,288萬元售出，面積約3,588平方呎，原由大快活快餐店以22.3萬元租用，現轉租為買購入自用。原業主為馬亞木集團，早於2001年以約1.2億元，向發展商大手購入87個舖位，隨即成功拆售，大部分早已回本獲利，而所餘舖位於近年注入系內其他公司作收租用途。
(經濟日報)
屯門滙賢淪銀主盤 意向價15億
屯門新合里滙賢一號活化工廈一籃子物業，淪為銀主盤，由接管人委託外資代理行招標，意向價逾15億。
是次標售物業分別為「屯門新合里1號」全幢，以及「屯門新合里3號」約190多個可拆售單位，「新合里1號」樓高10層，總建築面積達79504方呎，包括地下、1至3樓商舖部分及6至10樓五層寫字樓，及經由車用升降機直達之5樓全層停車場，大廈地下配備上落貨台。
該廈單位面積由約3616至12239方呎不等，10樓寫字樓部分配備專用平台，整幢適合企業作旗艦店及總部。項目截標日期為7月17日。
活化工廈樓齡4年
而另一大樓「新合里3號」樓高30層，地下至1樓為停車場，大樓設320個寫字樓單位，面積由約478至3098方呎，所有單位皆設獨立洗手間及獨立冷氣，部分單位眺望河景及園景。「新合里1號」及「新合里3號」2020年落成。
該行代理表示，即使地緣政治局勢不明朗，高息環境影響經濟，但政府積極吸納創科企業及國際投資者來港，不少實力機構投資者及家族辦公室正進行布局，分散資產流動性。
(星島日報)
麗新5.4億沽藍塘傲商場
麗新及帝國集團合作的將軍澳藍塘傲商場易手，作價5.4億，買家為華潤集團旗下的華潤隆地。
麗新製衣及麗新發展昨日公布，上述項目涉資5.4億，賣方向買方保證，於2024年8月1日至2026年7月31日兩年內，該物業產生之租金收入淨額將不低於3300萬，否則，賣方應向買方支付差額。該項目將於8月5日或之前完成交易。出售項目將估計虧損3.07億。
華潤隆地承接
該商場佔地4層，總建築面積約 102,582方呎，包括地下、1樓、地庫2樓和地庫1樓，另提供154個車位。
有外資代理行代理表示，華潤隆地繼葵芳匯後，第二度出手購入商場，反映國企對香港仍有信心，物業出租率高近90%，回報達約6厘。
(星島日報)
九展功成身退 變陣商住發展
前身為工業區的九龍灣逐步轉型為商貿區，作為第二個核心商業區 (CBD2) 主要部分，區內項目積極計劃重建為商業項目，涉逾147萬平方呎。而近日正式結束營運的區內地標九龍灣國際展貿中心，原亦擬重建商廈項目，惟發展商近期變陣，大幅削減商業樓面外，亦為重建方案加入住宅元素。
在起動九龍東推展下，九龍灣陸續轉型為區內重點的商貿區，但因區內不少大型工廈均由單一業主持有，故此要展開重建的難度較高。
觀乎該區近年有3個重建為商業項目批出，涉逾147萬平方呎商業樓面，包括由中渝置地 (01224) 主席張松橋等持有的臨澤街8號啟匯，雖項目曾在2020年年中，獲屋宇署批准建築圖則以重建2幢28層高商業大樓，總樓面約68萬平方呎，惟去年該廈獲醫管局承租約10層樓面，故料發展商短期內未必會落實有關重建計劃。同時，永泰 (00369) 旗下常悅道13號瑞興中心，於2022年亦獲屋宇署批准重建1幢26層高的商廈 (另設4層地庫)，涉及總樓面面積約26.3萬平方呎。
減總樓面 增建1881伙住宅
值得留意的是，由億京夥同資本策略 (00497) 組成的財團所持有的九龍灣國際展貿中心，原已向城規會申請重建商業及工業展覽館，申請亦已在去年獲會方批准，不過近日發展商變陣，減少總樓面及地積比率，並加入住宅元素，擬重建6幢住宅，1幢商廈及1幢混合用途大樓，提供1,881伙住宅，總樓面面積約146萬平方呎，當中住宅樓面佔約92.4萬平方呎，寫字樓佔約29.2萬平方呎樓面，亦設樓面約12.1萬平方呎工業展覽館等。上述財團早於2021年中以約105億元，向合和實業 (00054) 買入項目，而項目已於上月30日正式結束營運。
另外九龍倉 (00004) 持有的啟興道九龍貨倉，則已於2022年底亦以約20.9億元完成補地價，將由目前的工業用途轉作商住項目，將提供約1,782伙。
與此同時，政府亦積極騰出空間作重建之用，包括將區內前運輸署驗車中心、廢物回收中心、驗車中心等設施搬出，以組合為「九龍灣行動區」，發展大型商業、零售及文化項目，總樓面面積涉逾430萬平方呎，但因近年商廈空置率上升，估計政府短期內未必會推出上述商業用地招標。
(經濟日報)
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