{"id":155783,"date":"2025-06-15T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-rent-surge-hits-mainland-students-and-professionals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:48:43","slug":"hong-kongs-rent-surge-hits-mainland-students-and-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-rent-surge-hits-mainland-students-and-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s rent surge hits mainland students and professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWang Ruoshuo, a 21-year-old student from Hefei, the capital of central Anhui province, is searching for a flat in Hung Hom in southern Kowloon, which is close to her university and the company where she interns. As a first-time renter, however, she has been taken aback by the high prices.
\nWang and her friends are looking for a two-bedroom unit, budgeting about HK$7,000 to HK$8,000 (US$892 to US$1,019) per person. \u201cBut when we began our search, we found that properties meeting our criteria would…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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Wang Ruoshuo, a 21-year-old student from Hefei, the capital of central Anhui province, is searching...<\/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-155783","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-EwD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":171350,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mainland-chinese-buyers-fuel-93-per-cent-surge-in-hong-kong-property-deal-value\/","url_meta":{"origin":155783,"position":0},"title":"Mainland Chinese buyers fuel 93 per cent surge in Hong Kong property deal value","date":"April 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Mainland buyers are playing an increasingly prominent role in Hong Kong\u2019s housing market rebound, supported by a stronger yuan, rising rents and an influx of new arrivals shifting from tenants to homeowners. 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