{"id":127066,"date":"2022-06-18T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T10:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-buyers-snap-up-70-per-cent-of-new-homes-on-offer-casting-aside-hkmas-75-point-interest-hike-as-banks-deferred-raising-mortgage-rates\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T11:10:14","slug":"hong-kongs-buyers-snap-up-70-per-cent-of-new-homes-on-offer-casting-aside-hkmas-75-point-interest-hike-as-banks-deferred-raising-mortgage-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-buyers-snap-up-70-per-cent-of-new-homes-on-offer-casting-aside-hkmas-75-point-interest-hike-as-banks-deferred-raising-mortgage-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s buyers snap up 70 per cent of new homes on offer, casting aside HKMA\u2019s 75-point interest hike as banks deferred raising mortgage rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Hang Seng Bank kept their prime rates unchanged this week, even after the city\u2019s de facto central bank raised its base rate by 75 basis points.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3182215\/hong-kongs-buyers-snap-70-cent-new-homes-offer-casting-aside-hkmas-75?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong\u2019s buyers snap up 70 per cent of new homes on offer, casting aside HKMA\u2019s 75-point interest hike as banks deferred raising mortgage rates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Hang Seng Bank kept their prime&#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-127066","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-x3s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27646,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/finance-firms-upend-hkmas-lending-caps-on-property-adding-fuel-to-red-hot-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":127066,"position":0},"title":"Finance firms upend HKMA\u2019s lending caps on property, adding fuel to red hot market","date":"September 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Two finance firms are challenging the Hong Kong Monetary Authority\u2019s mortgage lending caps , offering more financing than current bank loans to attract new borrowers ahead of a possible interest rate increase in December. 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