
Hong Kong could beat Singapore's three-year housing slump
Singapore’s three-year housing slump could see relief from an unexpected quarter in 2017: Hong Kong.
So says Cushman & Wakefield Inc., which expects the slide in the city-state’s home prices to end this year as foreign investors turned off by Hong Kong’s move to increase the stamp duty for overseas buyers look to Singapore instead. Desmond Sim, head of research for Singapore and Southeast Asia at CBRE Ltd., said Singapore house prices are approaching their trough, with a forecast price move of flat to minus 2 percent.
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