{"id":113477,"date":"2020-01-08T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-faces-hk10-billion-potential-shortfall-in-land-sales-revenue-as-city-faces-first-fiscal-deficit-in-15-years\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:13:21","slug":"hong-kong-faces-hk10-billion-potential-shortfall-in-land-sales-revenue-as-city-faces-first-fiscal-deficit-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-faces-hk10-billion-potential-shortfall-in-land-sales-revenue-as-city-faces-first-fiscal-deficit-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong faces HK$10 billion potential shortfall in land sales revenue as city faces first fiscal deficit in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHong Kong is likely to miss its target of collecting HK$143 billion (US$18.3 billion) in revenue from land sales and premium revenue in the current financial year to March 31, likely contributing to the city\u2019s first budget deficit in 15 years.The government has generated HK$113.8 billion of such revenue between April 1 and December 18, 2019, according to calculations based on Lands Department records. Land sales earmarked for the rest of current fiscal year could only possibly raise the tally\u2026&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3044939\/hong-kong-faces-hk10-billion-potential-shortfall-land-sales-revenue-city\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong faces HK billion potential shortfall in land sales revenue as city faces first fiscal deficit in 15 years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Hong Kong is likely to miss its target of collecting HK$143 billion (US$18.3 billion) in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-twh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119620,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-government-to-sell-four-plots-next-quarter-as-it-looks-to-shore-up-its-land-sales-revenue\/","url_meta":{"origin":113477,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong government to sell four plots next quarter as it looks to shore up its land sales revenue","date":"December 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong\u2019s government, staring at its biggest fiscal deficit in years, faces about HK$60 billion (US$7.7 billion) of potential shortfall in land sales revenue as developers\u2019 cautious approach to investment had forced several commercial sites to be withdrawn from tender.The government is pressing ahead with selling four parcels of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39195,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/chinese-developers-hong-kong-government-says-xie-xie\/","url_meta":{"origin":113477,"position":1},"title":"Chinese developers, Hong Kong government says xie xie","date":"December 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong\u2019s government revenue from land sales rose to a record HK$71.88 billion in the first nine months of the 2016 fiscal year ending March 31, as HNA Group led mainland Chinese developers in their buying spree in the city. 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