real estate bubble

With Hong Kong real estate prices up 8% from the pre-crisis peak, the government is implementing anti-speculation efforts and discouraging mortgage loan excesses to ward off a potential property bubble. Alongside an impending stamp duty hike, the new relief package is aimed at helping Hong Kong through this recovery phase.

There has been much speculation recently about an ongoing price bubble occurring in the Hong Kong residential property market.

LONDON—The one-bedroom co-op apartment is only a short walk from Hyde Park, and it boasts high ceilings and a purely decorative balcony.

Mumbai: Mumbai’s real estate prices have begun to run amok once again, suggesting that another realty bubble is in the making. In a quick reversal from last year’s recessionary trends, residential property prices which had dropped by almost 35% in some areas have risen sharply in the last nine months and are now close to their earlier peaks of 2007-08.

HONG KONG—Hong Kong's de facto central bank said the city's residential property market cooled in the fourth quarter, allaying concerns a real-estate bubble may be forming, though it noted the city's asset markets remain vulnerable to international capital flows.