有代理表示，香港地少人多，仓存需求大，迷你仓及物流行业应运而生，例如，建华集团创立新品牌24 Storage，于过去一年间设12个据点，目标为逾万呎工厦，如屯门建荣工业大厦低层全层，面积达约1万方呎，储存易集团旗下筲箕湾阿公岩村道8号的储存易集团中心开幕，总面积近7万方呎。
总金额近106亿按年跌70%
代理续表示，今年上半年暂录得约34宗逾亿成交，总金额约105.59亿。2022上半年录约68宗及360.85亿，下半年约43宗及267.27亿。对比去年上半年按年跌约50%及70%，明显反映经济环境疲弱，需待政策奏效刺激市道。
统计2023上半年十大工商铺成交，各类别分布平均，工厦及写字楼共佔5宗，其餘为与旅游相关铺位、基座商场及酒店，排名第一为尖沙嘴君怡酒店，以总价约34亿由内地旅游集团公司承接；紧接为观塘的活化商厦项目 KOHO 全幢，成交价约17亿元，市传由收租客购入；第三位则为观塘年运工业大厦强拍，由伯恩光学杨建文以约11.28亿元投得。
君怡酒店34亿承接最瞩目
十大成交排名中，基座商场易手频仍，包括荃湾协和广场商业部分，由亚证地产、联合集团和天安中国联合以约10亿买入，计画作加建改建；另大角嘴海桃湾基座西九汇商场由阳光房地产以约7.48人亿承接。
(星岛日报)
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铜锣湾谢斐道 Tower 535 录得全层租务成交，涉及物业25楼全层，面积约11,665平方呎，成交月租约70万元，呎租约60元。
据了解，新租客为一家饮食集团，将经营高级中菜。因该厦位于铜锣湾核心地段，兼享全海景，该厦高层楼面，过去亦有餐饮客户租。
(经济日报)
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观塘皇廷广场中层 呎售9151
东九龙甲厦录低价成交，消息指，观塘敬业街皇廷广场中层E室，面积约907平方呎，以约830万元易手，呎价约9,151元，呎价较去年低约1成。
租务方面，消息称，尖东永安广场中层10室，面积约1,689平方呎，以每呎约30元租出。
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New homes dominate weekend sales
Only four deals were recorded at the 10 major housing estates over the weekend as buyers were drawn to the primary market with at least 183 units sold at Henley Park in Kai Tak after sales kicked off on Saturday.
It was a 55.5 percent drop from a week ago and the ninth consecutive week with single-digit sales, according to a property agency.
New projects were very competitive in pricing that second-hand homeowners could not match, resulting in a decline in deals, a property agent said.
Another agent said US interest rates are expected to peak soon, which, together with Hong Kong's plan to fine-tune measures to help buyers purchase homes for self-use, will help boost market sentiment.
In the primary market, Henderson Land Development (0012) raised the price for Henley Park by 1 percent in the latest batch after selling 80 percent of the homes available in the first round of sales of 228 homes over the weekend.
The third batch, which involves 82 flats from 250 to 649 square feet, is priced at an average of HK$22,163 per sq ft after discounts. That compares to HK$22,148 for the second batch and HK$21,088 for the first.
Flats in the third list cost between HK$5.15 million and HK$17.59 million after discount.
The completed project offers 740 flats from 250 to 1,558 sq ft with up to three bedrooms.
(The Standard)
Henderson Land’s Kai Tak flats snapped up by young buyers, with 70 per cent of units sold ahead of interest rate hikes
The Kai Tak flats, on offer for an average price of HK$21,463 (US$2,739) per square foot, were 31 times oversubscribed as of Friday
Home prices in Hong Kong fell 15.6 per cent in 2022, the biggest annual decline since the Asian financial crisis in 1998
Young homebuyers flocked to Henderson Land Development’s new project in Kai Tak on Saturday, snapping up seven out of every 10 units on offer ahead of an expected interest rate hike.
As of 5pm, 160 of the 228 homes at Henley Park found buyers, according to a property agent.
The agent described the situation as a “fairly good sales result” given the weak market conditions at present.
“The project was greeted with heavy subscriptions and the homes can be used for investment purpose too with good returns,” the agent said. “But in the near term, home prices in [Hong Kong] are still facing downward pressure.”
The flats, sold at an average price of HK$21,463 (US$2,739) per square foot, received more than 7,100 pre-orders as of Friday, 31 times oversubscribed.
The price is about 15 per cent cheaper than leftover stock of new homes in the same district, including Henderson’s The Henley, according to another property agent.
The cheapest unit of 250 sq ft had a price tag of HK$5.18 million, while the most expensive flat, offering total space of 649 sq ft, was on offer for HK$17.24 million.
Analysts said the results were in line with expectations as most would-be buyers were still cautious about the market outlook even after Henderson offered big discounts.
Home prices in Hong Kong fell 15.6 per cent in 2022, the biggest annual decline since the Asian financial crisis in 1998, as Covid-19 pandemic curbs dented buying interest, data released by the Rating and Valuation Department showed.
Developers continued to slash prices to woo buyers after new home sales slumped 38 per cent to a three-month low of 942 in May, according to a property agency.
The first agent predicted that new home sales in June may have jumped to 1,500 units because new projects unleashed more properties on the market.
Some developers are even offering dining and travel vouchers to boost sales.
On Friday evening, 20 units at Grand Ming Group’s project The Grands at To Kwa Wan were sold, representing 67 per cent of the total 30 flats on offer, after the developer handed out vouchers worth HK$8,800 for the first six buyers.
In March, Star Properties gave out railway tickets valued at up to HK$11,000 to the first six buyers of its After The Rain project in Yuen Long.
The US central bank is likely to resume its rate hike campaign after a break earlier this month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday, as a slew of stronger-than-expected US economic data underscored why more monetary tightening is likely needed.
The Hong Kong government is considering marginally relaxing mortgage loan-to-value ratios for some residential property purchases, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Ma-po said on a Commercial Radio programme last Sunday.
Chan cautioned residents against a high-interest rate environment amid market expectations that the US Fed will increase rates once or twice in the second half of this year. Hong Kong interest rates move in lockstep with the US as the local currency is pegged to the US dollar.
On June 22, Bank of East Asia said it expected lenders to raise the prime rate by 25 basis points in July due to rising Hibor, which reached 5.1 per cent on Saturday, the highest level since 2007, and a tight aggregate balance.
Hong Kong’s residential market remains sluggish after a short-lived rebound in the first quarter.
Home prices may end the year unchanged from the start of 2023, Citigroup said last month.
Based on gains recorded in the first quarter, home prices could drop by 7 per cent over the remainder of the year.
(South China Morning Post)