{"id":48488,"date":"2017-03-17T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-buyers-pack-sales-offices-before-loan-rate-increases\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T23:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:29:17","slug":"hong-kong-buyers-pack-sales-offices-before-loan-rate-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-buyers-pack-sales-offices-before-loan-rate-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong buyers pack sales offices before loan rate increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHundreds 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 more base-rate increases to come.<br \/>\nWheelock Properties sold 300 units, or more than 80 per cent of 372 units, at the Monterey project in Tseung Kwan O, with the first batch going for an average price of HK$14,208 (US$1,&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/property\/article\/2079978\/hundreds-home-hunters-pack-sales-offices-buy-new-flats-undeterred-us-rate\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong buyers pack sales offices before loan rate increases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Hundreds of home buyers turned out in force for the first of a two-day sale&#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-48488","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-cC4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41250,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-home-buyers-shrug-off-supply-rate-concerns-and-flock-to-tsuen-wan-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":48488,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong home buyers shrug off supply, rate concerns and flock to Tsuen Wan project","date":"January 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong home buyers seem undeterred by rising flat supply and imminent interest rate increases after a residential project launch in Tsuen Wan received an overwhelming response on Friday. 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