“Hong Kong doubled the sales tax on property costing more than HK$2 million ($258,000) and targeted commercial real estate for the first time as bubble risks spread from apartments to parking spaces, shops and hotels.
The stamp duty will increase to 8.5 percent of the purchase price for all properties, Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang said at a briefing today. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority also tightened mortgage terms for commercial properties and parking spaces.
The government widened its property curbs to cover commercial transactions after earlier this week hundreds of people turned up to buy hotel rooms being sold by Li Ka-shing’sCheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd. (1) in the city, prompting a warning from the government. Home prices have doubled in the past four years on near-record low mortgage rates, an influx of mainland Chinese buyers and a lack of new supply….”
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