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But buyers could be chased down by developers to pay the difference in resale prices, agent warns.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3275149\/hong-kong-property-buyers-willing-forfeit-deposits-pay-above-market-prices?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong\u2019s homebuyers would rather forfeit their deposits than pay above-market prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The 308 cases in the first half have already exceeded last year\u2019s total of 261,&#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-146713","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-Cal","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96179,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/homebuyers-getting-cold-feet-in-hong-kongs-property-market-amid-growing-uncertainties\/","url_meta":{"origin":146713,"position":0},"title":"Homebuyers getting cold feet in Hong Kong\u2019s property market amid growing uncertainties","date":"August 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Some buyers are so edgy about the Hong Kong property market that they are pulling out of deals, despite losing big deposits. 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