{"id":172868,"date":"2026-11-01T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-would-a-december-rate-rise-mean-for-hong-kong-family-offices-property-portfolios\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:08:12","slug":"what-would-a-december-rate-rise-mean-for-hong-kong-family-offices-property-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-would-a-december-rate-rise-mean-for-hong-kong-family-offices-property-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"What would a December rate rise mean for Hong Kong family offices\u2019 property portfolios?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAn expected 0.25 percentage point rate increase by the US Federal Reserve in December is unlikely to dampen Hong Kong family offices\u2019 interest in European, US and Japanese property investments, according to industry insiders.<br \/>\nKen Peng, chief investment officer at Raffles Family Office, said there were currently no signs of a large-scale sell-off in the US real estate market, with some local markets in the US even seeing supply shortages.<br \/>\n\u201cI believe the Federal Reserve\u2019s current rate-hiking cycle&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/money\/investment-products\/article\/3372717\/what-would-december-rate-rise-mean-hong-kong-family-offices-property-portfolios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What would a December rate rise mean for Hong Kong family offices\u2019 property portfolios?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; An expected 0.25 percentage point rate increase by the US Federal Reserve in December is&#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-172868","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-IYc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48488,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-buyers-pack-sales-offices-before-loan-rate-increases\/","url_meta":{"origin":172868,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong buyers pack sales offices before loan rate increases","date":"March 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hundreds of home buyers turned out in force for the first of a two-day sale of 1,000 new apartments in Hong Kong on Friday, taking advantage of the lull before commercial banks raise their mortgage rates in line with what the city\u2019s top monetary official said will be nine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":163897,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-deals-rise-to-3-month-high-as-buyers-benefit-from-rate-cut\/","url_meta":{"origin":172868,"position":1},"title":"Hong Kong property deals rise to 3-month high as buyers benefit from rate cut","date":"November 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong property deals surged to a three-month high in October, a month after the US Federal Reserve and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) loosened monetary policies again this year since a pause that began in December. 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