今年首季工商舖承接上年年底弱勢。有本港代理行綜合土地註冊處資料顯示，首季工商舖共錄681宗註冊，按年減約30.4%，金額錄105.63億，按年跌約14.1%。該行認為經濟尚未完全恢復，相信中短期內，工商舖市難以重返疫情前的表現。

市況難以重返疫情前

今年首季工商舖三板塊宗數全線下跌，工廈錄352宗註冊，按年減約29.2%。商廈及商舖分別錄142宗及187宗註冊，按年跌約29.7%及33%。

三板塊宗數全線下跌

該行代理料工商舖交投見底。日本央行3月決定加息，為07年來首次，經濟仍疲弱，料保持寬鬆貨幣政策。短期而言日本退出負利率政策對國際市場影響有限。

(星島日報)

Secondary home sales take a beating amid new launches

Secondary home sales in Hong Kong fell into the single digits for the first time since all property curbs were removed six weeks ago, as prospective buyers continued to flock to new projects.

The 10 major housing estates recorded only nine deals, below double digits for the first time since February 28, when all stamp duties were scrapped, according to a local property agency.

The number of deals fell by 18.2 percent over the previous weekend.

Three estates reported zero deals, including Kornhill in Quarry Bay, South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau and Whampoa Garden in Whampoa

An agent said buyers were attracted to the new projects priced at market levels.

Meanwhile, some 75 estates around the MTR stations witnessed 483 second-hand deals last month, up by 22 percent from a month ago, another local property agency reported.

Seven of the most actively traded 10 estates tracked by the agency reported price increases in March with South Horizons, in the south of the Hong Kong Island, seeing the largest increase in the average price per square foot of 7.1 percent to HK$13,725 from a month ago.

Prices at Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom dropped by 6.2 percent monthly to HK$12,150 per sq ft on average.

In the primary market, Wheelock Properties plans to launch Park Seasons - Phase 12B of Lohas Park - as early as this month to offer 685 units, intensifying the race for new home buyers. As the biggest phase in Lohas Park, Park Seasons's one- and two-bedroom flats range from 314 to 537 sq ft.

Executive director Ricky Wong Kwong-yiu said prices will be released in this week and all flats will be priced below HK$10 million. The developer plans to increase prices by up to 10 percent from the last phase.

Phase 12A of Lohas Park, Seasons Place, was launched last month and has raked in around HK$3.47 billion from the sale of 548 flats.

CK Asset (1113), meanwhile, has put 88 more flats at Blue Coast near Wong Chuk Hang MTR station up for sale and raised the average price by 3 percent to HK$23,233 per sq ft after discounts. The new batch of flats range from 454 sq ft to 1,267 sq ft, featuring two to four bedrooms.

It gained nearly HK$7.5 billion by selling 96 percent of 422 units at Blue Coast in the first round of sales on Saturday, and the three-bedroom flats were the first to sell out. The developer said it will keep increasing the prices of flats in future lists.

Executive director Justin Chiu Kwok-hung said sales are going faster than expected.

The primary market recorded 4,895 deals in the first quarter, over 110 percent higher than the previous three-month period and the highest after the second quarter of 2019, according to the Sales of First-hand Residential Properties e-platform.

(The Standard)