Feb
02
Hong Kong’s Last Property Slump Saw Prices Fall by 70%: Chart
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As price declines accelerate in Hong Kong’s housing market — ranked as the world’s most unaffordable after gains of more than 300 percent in past 12 years — the last slump in the late 1990s shows how vulnerable the city’s property can be to global events. Home prices plummeted almost 70 percent over a six-year period as the Asian financial crisis and a deadly SARS outbreak hammered investor confidence. Prices also sank in the early 1980s as concern over the future of the then-British colony prompted the government to peg the city’s currency to the greenback — thus tying the hands of policy makers from using interest rates to control property prices…
Hong Kong’s Last Property Slump Saw Prices Fall by 70%: Chart
