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I'm hearing all the articles here and there bout the china property bubble

What about the HK market?

seems to me the govt is in the same position as Sg, trying to slow down the price increase in real estate, putting in cooling measures on and on

Is there a bubble in Hk property mkt?

Qn to you: Do you want it to be a bubble?

hahahha i'm not sure really

i've been reading here and there, the prop mkt is expensive but seems that most are cash transactions and with low leverage. looks like a special case

*which is why i'm posting for discussion

Could a classical real-estate bubble exist in a land scare city like hong kong in the first place?

I dunno. Even if people are over leveraged and are unable to service their mortgages (not sure if this is the case) when interest rates rise, would this result in falling property prices in HK? Gut sense seem to suggest that this is not likely.

Would be happy to be proven wrong.