{"id":68170,"date":"2017-10-04T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-government-lacks-creative-ideas-to-tackle-soaring-home-prices\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T08:03:12","slug":"hong-kong-government-lacks-creative-ideas-to-tackle-soaring-home-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-government-lacks-creative-ideas-to-tackle-soaring-home-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong government lacks creative ideas to tackle soaring home prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nStrong sales at new residential projects over the past holiday weekend have shown that the market wants creative housing plans such as the \u201cstarter home scheme\u201d instead of verbal warnings from top officials when it comes to tackling soaring home prices.<br \/>\nA total of 440 new flats were sold over the three-day holiday despite the government\u2019s housing price index hitting an all-time high, in defiance of Hong Kong Monetary Authority chairman Norman Chan Tak-lam\u2019s warning on&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/2113979\/hong-kong-government-lacks-creative-ideas-tackle-soaring-home-prices\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong government lacks creative ideas to tackle soaring home prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Strong sales at new residential projects over the past holiday weekend have shown that the&#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-68170","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-hJw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103439,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/when-it-comes-to-soaring-housing-prices-amsterdam-and-auckland-outstrip-hong-kongs-38pc-growth\/","url_meta":{"origin":68170,"position":0},"title":"When it comes to soaring housing prices, Amsterdam and Auckland outstrip Hong Kong\u2019s 38pc growth","date":"January 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong has been named one of the least affordable housing markets in the world along with Amsterdam, Auckland and Vancouver in a study that showed housing affordability has shrunk considerably worldwide. 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