| The armies of young real-estate agents that flood Hong Kong’s shopping malls on weekends could see their ranks thinning out in the coming months, the chief analyst at Hong Kong’s largest listed real-estate broker says.
Thanks to the government’s latest round of cooling measures, transactions across the city have dropped dramatically, Midland Realty’s Buggle Lau said Thursday. Since late February, when the government doubled the stamp duty on most property purchases, transactions on the secondary market at the city’s 10 most popular housing estates have plummeted to as few as four or five on recent weekends, Lau said...............................................Full Article: Source
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