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Chinese love the whole building Shi Yongqing: sweeping the goods confidence is not affected by high property prices

Earlier the Central Center traded at a premium of $ 40.2 billion. Central Plains Group Chairman and President Shi Yongqing believed that the confidence of Chinese banks and insurance companies in entering the entire shopping mall to sweep goods was unaffected. Several mainland banks And insurance companies are looking for the entire commercial buildings in Hong Kong for office buildings, but did not disclose which specific company. He stressed that in the core area of ​​Central, office buildings, the overall supply of less able to sell more difficult to find.

Shi Yongqing said that interested buyers are buying the entire mall are the mainland national banks or insurance companies, these large-scale enterprises, the bid is also more Hao. Without a target in Central’s core area, these agencies turn their attention to similar properties that consider Kowloon or some of the new development areas. On the other hand, although the mainland Branch network enterprises prosperous, but currently no large-scale network enterprises intend to invest in Hong Kong to buy the entire commercial buildings.

In addition, Champion (2778) announced the release of all its mansions in Langham Place, Mongkok last year with an intention price of about $ 25 billion and a price of about $ 35,000. Gao Xiao International Capital Markets and Investment Services Deputy Managing Director Hu Xiao straight expected Langham Place is expected to sell successfully this year, buyers believe it will still be based in China.

Shi Yongqing expects this year’s property price increase will be less than last year’s 13%, but still expected to rise 8% to 10%. He also believes that the rate hike must be higher than inflation and economic growth, will have a significant impact on the property market.

Last year, the property market bumper crop

2017 is undoubtedly a year of bumper property investment in Hong Kong. DTZ pointed out that all kinds of property types, including the entire commercial building, recorded high-price deals. Cheung Kong (1113) intends to sell Central’s message to the market for more than a year. The deal lapses and turns, and the deal eventually ends in November Completed, priced at 40.2 billion yuan, the average price of about 33,000 yuan foot. In addition, Success Styling (823) successfully sold its 17 shopping mall assets for $ 23 billion. It is the largest asset sale since the listing of Lead Time. In addition, a number of market news pushed up the sentiments of investors. As a result, the total transaction volume recorded in the whole of last year was nearly HK $ 200 billion. This not only broke the 2016 record, but also hit a new record high in the past 10 years.

David Ko, Executive Director of Hong Kong’s Investment and Advisory Services Department, said: “The hot investment market in 2017 is an office property market. There is no doubt that office rentals are still rising. However, local investors, overseas funds and even home users demand Leading Chinese-funded agencies are both strongly interested in office space Looking forward to 2018, local and Chinese investors are expected to continue to actively look for landmark-based properties. Although the number of large-scale investments may decrease, the potential for high-price transactions is still expected to remain , Is expected to break the 2017 record again.