{"id":119099,"date":"2020-11-03T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-the-hang-seng-index-or-unemployment-rate-a-better-predictor-of-hong-kong-housing-prices\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:03:23","slug":"is-the-hang-seng-index-or-unemployment-rate-a-better-predictor-of-hong-kong-housing-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-the-hang-seng-index-or-unemployment-rate-a-better-predictor-of-hong-kong-housing-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Hang Seng Index or unemployment rate a better predictor of Hong Kong housing prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn the last two years, Hong Kong has endured a series of major incidents, from the US-China trade war to the anti-extradition bill and associated social unrest, to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hong Kong economy has been dampened since the third quarter of 2019, with GDP growth flipped from an uptrend at 0.4 per cent to a downbeat minus 9.0 per cent within four quarters. Despite the economic downturn, Hong Kong housing prices have remained resilient. Official statistics showed that overall\u2026
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Is the Hang Seng Index or unemployment rate a better predictor of Hong Kong housing prices?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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