Hong Kong’s
residential property transactions jumped more than 50 percent in June
from a year earlier, with buyer interest boosted by falling interbank
rates and developers' competitive pricing.
A total of 5,955
residential deals were registered during the month, up 54.4 percent from
a year ago and 16.7 percent from May, according to data released on
Thursday by the Land Registry. The value of those transactions surged 77
percent year-on-year to HK$61.1 billion.
Including all
property types, the number of sale-and-purchase agreements reached 7,271
– a 12.9 percent increase from May and 38.6 percent more than a year
earlier. The overall consideration climbed 61.6 percent year-on-year to
HK$66.4 billion. The 12-month moving average rose to 5,812 – up 3
percent from May and 19.6 percent from a year earlier.
A property agency
attributed the rise in residential deals to lower Hong Kong dollar
interbank offered rates and developers’ efforts to price new launches
close to market value.
Theagency
maintained its earlier forecast, expecting overall transaction volume to
stay near last year’s level and annual home price movements to remain
within a plus-or-minus 3-percent range, citing persistent global
uncertainties and the unclear outlook for sustained low interbank rates.
A potential US
rate cut later this year could help keep the city's interbank rates low,
offering support to the local housing market, the agency added.
(The Standard)
Hong Kong property market ‘resilient and fundamentally sound’ as sales hit 7-month high
Overall
deals rise 13 per cent, as transaction value reaches a 14-month high
and home sales exceed 5,000 for the fourth straight month
Property deals in
Hong Kong surged to a seven-month high in June while home sales exceeded
a key threshold for the fourth straight month, according to official
data, contributing to a more positive outlook for the battered sector.
Overall property
deals in June – homes, office units, shops, industrial premises and car
parking slots – rose by about 13 per cent from May to 7,271, the Land
Registry said on Thursday. Property worth HK$66.41 billion (US$8.46
billion) changed hands, up by more than a third from a month earlier.
Residential
transactions in June also hit the highest point in seven months at 5,955
units, 16.7 per cent higher than in May, the data showed. It was the
first time since the market downturn began in late 2021 that home sales
topped 5,000 units for four months in a row, according to a property
agency.
“The fact that
positive performance has continued this year, despite the absence of
significant stimulus, indicates a more resilient and fundamentally sound
residential market,” an agent said.
The number of
property deals in June was the highest since 7,689 in November, and the
value was the highest since April last year when sales hit HK$83.9
billion, according to data compiled by agents.
Residential sales for the first half of 2025 rose 4.2 per cent from a year earlier to 28,947 units, the data showed.
The increases add
to recent signs of a recovery in the property sector. Lived-in home
prices inched up by 0.03 per cent in May from a month earlier, according
to the latest data from the Rating and Valuation Department. It was the
second month of modest gains following April’s 0.35 per cent increase.
“Although the
growth was just a few percentage points, current market conditions are
demonstrably stronger than the same period in 2024,” the agent said.
Given the more
active housing market, the agent said home sales were likely to sustain
their strong performance in the second half of the year.
“We maintain our
forecast of close to 60,000 transactions for the year, representing
approximately a 10 per cent year-on-year increase,” the agent said.
“Primary sales are projected to contribute approximately 18,000 to
20,000 units, with nearly 40,000 units coming from secondary sales.”
At the start of
the year, the agency predicted that Hong Kong’s inventory of completed
new homes would rise to nearly 30,000 by next year.
With homebuyers
consistently snapping up between 1,000 and 2,000 new units each month,
developers’ unsold inventory would decline to a more normal level as
early as the second half of this year, the agent said.
“We optimistically
revise the timeline of a decline in the inventory level from next year
to the second half of this year, which will be earlier by six to 12
months,” the agent said.
Unsold new homes
in the city had surged to a record high in the first quarter of the
year, according to the Housing Bureau. There were 28,000 unsold units as
of March 31, an increase of 1,000 from the previous quarter.
The improved
prospects for the city’s property market come amid a lower Hong Kong
interbank offered rate (Hibor), which is linked to mortgage loans, as
well as the tariff war truce between the US and China, another agent
said.
The one-month
Hibor fell to a 30-month low of 2.0945 per cent in early May, according
to data from the Hong Kong Association of Banks. It has since declined
further, standing at 0.71250 as of Thursday.
Despite optimism,
Hong Kong’s economic performance in the coming months would have a large
influence on the property market, another agent said.
“It depends on the
economy, the stock market and whether [the property market] is able to
sustain the transaction volume above 5,000 units, for housing prices to
improve further,” the agent said.
(South China Morning Post)
涉近1.3萬呎 觀塘同區升級搬遷
新甲廈吸引租客搬遷，消息指，能源及石化集團蜆殼 (Shell) 租用觀塘新甲廈The Millennity全層近1.3萬平方呎樓面，呎租料約25元，屬同區搬遷。
市場人士指，觀塘巧明街新甲廈The Millennity錄得新租務，涉及物業2座全層，面積約1.25萬平方呎，以每平方呎約25元租出。
消息稱，新租客為香港蜆殼，在港業務包括零售、石油氣、商務燃油，在港設有40個油站。
據了解，該集團目前使用同區及同地段的城東誌 (Landmark East) 全層，約2萬平方呎樓面，該廈屬地段指標甲廈之一。相比之下，The Millennity落成只有一年多，質素更新，是次搬遷將減少部分樓面，以節省開支。
The Millennity近一年錄得不少租務，包括香港科技大學，租用1座30及31樓，每層約1.9萬平方呎，合共3.8萬平方呎，據了解，該批樓面主要作學生課室之用。此外，物業1.5萬呎樓面，亦獲一家玩具公司承租。
港晶中心高層 劈價5成沽出
甲廈供應仍多，新項目往往成市場租務焦點，如最近啟德AIRSIDE全層，獲加密貨幣公司租用作擴充。
另資料顯示，尖東港晶中心高層全層，面積約19,652平方呎，以7,100萬元沽出，呎價約3,612元，為該廈呎價近十多年新低。業主去年曾以1.47億放售，現減價一半沽出。不過，業主早於1987年購入自用，料是次減價沽貨仍獲利而回。
(經濟日報)
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外資代理行：甲廈租金全年料累跌7%
隨着龐大的IPO在港集資，戴德梁行指，帶旺寫字樓氣氛，然而基於龐大供應，料甲廈租金全年累跌約7%至9%。
有外資代理行代理表示，上半年本港IPO集資額重奪全球首位，隨着更多內地企業來港上市，進一步提振寫字樓市場情緒，並帶動相關行業租賃需求，本港多區甲廈租金跌幅於第二季收窄，但有見龐大新供應及高待租率，估將維持全年整體寫字樓租金跌約7%至9%的預測。
年底空置率可能達21%
該行指，整體寫字樓租金於今年上半年跌約3.4%，料下半年跌幅可能達4%，幅度較上半年大，主要因為新落成商廈有機會以優惠價吸引住戶，而年底空置率有機會達21%至22%。
來港旅客消費模式改變，導致「租戶洗牌」。核心區一線街舖第二季空置率呈上升之勢，以銅鑼灣空置率升幅較明顯，由上季的5.3%升至13.2%。
尖沙咀舖租金按季跌3.4%
旺角和中環則分別按季微升至9.5%及 8.6%；季內只有尖沙咀空置率保持平穩，維持9.4%水平。
該代理預計，中環商舖獨特特色近年被發掘，旺角區商鋪靈活性高，尖沙咀屬傳統遊客區，都有助改善空置率，相比下銅鑼灣比較弱勢，與遊客購物習慣改變有關。
租金方面，隨着一線街舖空置壓力上升，各區一線街舖租金亦重現疲態而普遍下調。銅鑼灣、尖沙咀及旺角街舖租金按季分別跌3.6%、3.4%及 1.7%，而中環則因受較本地需求支持，按季微升 0.2%。
該行另一代理表示，第二季發展商積極推盤，拆息低企有助帶動投資者入市，估計整體成交量按年相約。
拆息低企有助投資者入市
該行另一代理指，該行追蹤指標屋苑表現，代表細價盤的沙田第一城按季升2.3%；代表中價的太古城按季微升0.4%；豪宅貝沙灣則季跌2.5%。
(星島日報)
核心區舖租賃趨活 外資代理行：料全年租金升3%
有外資代理行指，香港房產市場審慎樂觀，寫字樓及工廈供需失衡，投資市場明顯復甦，核心區舖位租賃保持活躍，料全年租金升3%。
儘管今年前四個月零售銷售按年跌5.6%，一線街舖及商場租賃仍然活躍，一線街舖租金按年升1.5%，受惠中港兩地及內地及國際品牌擴張，空置率穩定，預計全年租金將升約約3%的升幅。然而，業主與租戶之間的租金預期差距仍可能影響短期租賃動力。
寫字樓資產佔總成交金額的89%，零售及酒店板塊則相對平靜。隨着1個月期HIBOR跌穿1厘，港元定存利率低於2厘，房地產投資變得具吸引力。
(星島日報)
全幢酒店住宅 吸引投資者入市
高息環境下，近1年整體投資市場表現一般，而酒店及全幢住宅買賣較為理想，料因用途靈活，亦有潛力改裝成學生宿舍，下半年續可望吸引投資者入市。
近1年酒店買賣市場交投頗活躍，去年底市場連錄酒店成交，包括去年11月，位於天后威非路道21號
(TWENTY ONE WHITFIELD)
的全幢酒店易手，涉及總樓面約29,760平方呎，設有54間客，成交價約2.68億元成交，每間客房約500萬元，呎價約9,005元。
西環全幢住宅 1.4億沽
今年上半年續有酒店交投，包括投資者持有的旺角長沙街MK居停酒店，以約1.88億元沽出，該酒店總樓面約2.61萬平方呎，提供101個房間，以約1.88億元易手價計，呎價約7,192元，每間房間價值約186萬元。該酒店位處旺角彌敦道，屬核心地段。
翻查資料，原業主於2009年以約1.5億元購入酒店，早於2022年7月起放售，當時市值約4億元，去年降價至約3億元放售，若以現成交價計，售價較逾2年前呎價低逾2.1億元或53%。
此外，西環皇后大道西265號全幢商住項目易手，該廈樓高24層，屬一梯一伙設計，於1994年落成，地下商舖，1至23樓為住宅，合共23伙，總樓面約15,175平方呎，全幢物業以約1.4億元成交，平均呎價約9,226元，現時該幢大廈租金月入逾50萬元，料回報約4.3厘。
西半山般咸軒 招標出售
由於學生宿舍吸引投資者，業主亦趁機放售全幢商住項目。香港基督教女青年會 (YWCA) 委託外資代理行，出售西半山般咸道38C號般咸軒。
物業將以公開招標形式出售，截標日期為2025年8月12日 (星期二) 正午12時。般咸軒坐落西半山，為一幢樓高27層高的住宅大廈，總地盤面積約為4,442平方呎，淨地盤面積約為4,222平方呎，總批則面積約為36,660平方呎，擁有罕有999年地契。
物業景觀開揚，中高層單位可享維港海景，共提供96個單位及3種不同的房型。1樓屬於餐廳樓層，2樓及3樓為大廈活動室及配套設施，4樓至23樓為住宅單位。市場人士估計物業市值約4億元，呎價約1.1萬元，平均每房價值約417萬元。
分析指，大學宿位長期供不應求，而海外學生的增加進一步推高了對學生宿舍的需求，令學生宿舍吸引投資者留意。發展局與教育局推出先導計劃，鼓勵市場將酒店和商廈改建成學生宿舍，快速增加學生宿位供應。由於酒店改裝成本較低，預計較易吸引投資者留意，料下半年酒店及全幢住宅，將成投資焦點。
(經濟日報)
