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By Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s existing-home transactions
probably fell to the lowest level in almost 20 years in October
as prospective buyers are waiting for prices to drop and sellers
refrain from settling for less money, according to Ricacorp
Properties Ltd.
The number of transactions in the secondary market may fall
to about 2,000, the lowest level since at least 1996 when the
property agent started collecting the data, Derek Chan, head of
research at Ricacorp, said in an e-mailed statement Wednesday.
That would be lower than the 2,200 to 2,500 monthly transactions
recorded in 2003, when the city was in the grip of the severe
acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Oct. 22 vowed
to “resolve the housing issue” in the financial center, where
home prices have jumped more than 370 percent to a record since
2003. The government has previously said it plans to increase
total housing stock by 18 percent, or 480,000 homes, in the next
decade. Leung and the city’s de facto central bank have also
implemented a series of cooling measures, including tightening
mortgage rules and raising transaction levies for overseas
investors.
Leung, in his Oct. 22 speech to lawmakers, also said prices
in primary and secondary markets have “started to decline,”
without providing specific data.
Banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley
have said they expect property prices will start to fall in Hong
Kong as the economy weakens and interest rates increase.
Henderson Land Development Co. Chairman Lee Shau-kee said prices
would fall 5 percent in the each of the next two years,
according to a Hong Kong Economic Times report on Oct. 16.
Secondary private residential property prices dropped 0.19
percent during the Oct. 12-18 period from a week earlier,
falling for a fourth week in five, according to an index
published by broker Centaline Property Agency Ltd.
Total property transactions, including new homes, in the
first 26 days of October were 3,711, down 24 percent from the
same period a month earlier, Chan said in the statement, citing
Land Registry data. He expects total transactions to be 4,640 in
October, the lowest in 19 months.

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