{"id":69860,"date":"2017-10-24T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-broker-centaline-says-upstarts-like-snapflat-are-no-match-for-its-muscle-power\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:03:54","slug":"hong-kong-property-broker-centaline-says-upstarts-like-snapflat-are-no-match-for-its-muscle-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-broker-centaline-says-upstarts-like-snapflat-are-no-match-for-its-muscle-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong property broker Centaline says upstarts like Snapflat are no match for its muscle power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA 17-month rally in property prices and strong sales of new projects has been particularly profitable for housing agents in Hong Kong, allowing some online start-ups to challenge well-established agencies for a slice of the market.<br \/>\nThe latest newcomer to the party is Snapflat, which was launched this year.<br \/>\nLetting tenants find flats for free to increase demand and paying the departing tenants 15 per cent of rent if they let potential tenants view the flats to minimise vacancies is how Snapflat&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/2116721\/hong-kong-property-broker-centaline-says-upstarts-snapflat-are-no-match-its\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong property broker Centaline says upstarts like Snapflat are no match for its muscle power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A 17-month rally in property prices and strong sales of new projects has been particularly&#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-69860","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-iaM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109286,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-developers-unlikely-to-increase-prices-of-new-flats-as-they-try-to-offload-8500-unsold-units-centaline-says\/","url_meta":{"origin":69860,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong developers unlikely to increase prices of new flats as they try to offload 8,500 unsold units, Centaline says","date":"July 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong builders will probably leave their prices virtually unchanged in the second half of the year, having accumulated close to 8,500 unsold units since 2016, according to Centaline Property Agency.The developers may be keener than they have been in the past to offload the stock because of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":113821,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-home-prices-to-increase-in-the-second-quarter-as-buyers-return-amid-easing-social-tensions-says-centaline-surveyors\/","url_meta":{"origin":69860,"position":1},"title":"Hong Kong home prices to increase in the second quarter as buyers return amid easing social tensions, says Centaline Surveyors","date":"January 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong property prices are expected to bounce back in the second quarter amid rising sales of new flats, according to Centaline Surveyors.Louis Chan Wing-kit, vice-chairman for Asia-Pacific at Centaline Surveyors, said property prices could bounce back by 5 per cent in the second quarter from its lowest point\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":122381,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/evergrande-crisis-infects-hong-kong-market-as-midland-centaline-property-agencies-seek-to-recover-sales-commissions\/","url_meta":{"origin":69860,"position":2},"title":"Evergrande: crisis infects Hong Kong market as Midland, Centaline property agencies seek to recover sales commissions","date":"October 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r China Evergrande\u2019s debt crisis is starting to infect Hong Kong\u2019s property market as a local real estate agency group sued to recover overdue commissions from two housing projects in the city. 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