{"id":127088,"date":"2022-06-20T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/spicy-policies-helped-fortify-hong-kongs-market-save-homeowners-from-negative-equity-trap-defaults-ex-hkma-ceo-chan-says\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T19:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T12:48:52","slug":"spicy-policies-helped-fortify-hong-kongs-market-save-homeowners-from-negative-equity-trap-defaults-ex-hkma-ceo-chan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/spicy-policies-helped-fortify-hong-kongs-market-save-homeowners-from-negative-equity-trap-defaults-ex-hkma-ceo-chan-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spicy policies\u2019 helped fortify Hong Kong\u2019s market, save homeowners from negative-equity trap, defaults, ex-HKMA CEO Chan says"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHong Kong is better prepared today to withstand future financial crises, such as a property market slump, according to former HKMA CEO Norman Chan Tak-lam.
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…\u2018Spicy policies\u2019 helped fortify Hong Kong\u2019s market, save homeowners from negative-equity trap, defaults, ex-HKMA CEO Chan says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong is better prepared today to withstand future financial crises, such as a property...<\/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-127088","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-x3O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":125803,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fed-and-hkma-rate-increases-likely-to-have-muted-impact-on-hong-kongs-commercial-property-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":127088,"position":0},"title":"Fed and HKMA rate increases likely to have muted impact on Hong Kong\u2019s commercial property market","date":"April 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Should property investors be worried about the pace and frequency of rate increase in the US? 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