2020年11月26日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
Hong Kong people become experts in UK property market
Deptford, Battersea, Mill Hill and Salford – a year ago few people in Hong Kong had heard these names. But not now – these districts of London and Manchester are on the map of people looking to buy properties in the United Kingdom.
Since the start of the protests and especially Britain's offer to accept holders of BNO passports in July, the city's residents have been bombarded with advertisements for these properties and seminars explaining how to buy them. Agents have held sales exhibitions in Hong Kong hotels, especially helpful when residents cannot travel to the U.K. to see the properties in person.
In the first nine months of this year, Hongkongers spent 305.6 million pounds (HK$3.1 billion) on prime properties in London, ranking second to the French and ahead of mainland Chinese, according to research by Astons, a residency and citizenship consultant. ...
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