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HK flat sold for record US$76.7m
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A luxury apartment in Hong Kong sold for a record HK$594.7 million (US$76.7 million), days before Christmas, making it the most expensive flat in the city and possibly in Asia, reports said yesterday.
An unidentified buyer paid more than HK$103,700 per square foot for the 5,732-square-foot unit at the luxury 39 Conduit Road apartment tower in the upmarket Mid-Levels residential area, The Apple Daily and The Standard reported.
The condominium, on the 46th floor with a view of the iconic Victoria Harbour and a 1,754-square-foot rooftop, had a list price of HK$646.48 million on developer Henderson Land Properties鈥 website.
The price beats the previous record HK$470 million paid for a luxury unit which takes up the entire eighth floor of the Opus Hong Kong, a 12-story residential building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, in 2012.
Henderson Land was not available for comment yesterday, a public holiday.
This comes as analysts said a US interest rate hike could put an end to the housing boom in Hong Kong which maintains a decades-old peg with the US dollar.
Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA warned the residential market was at a 鈥渢urning point,鈥 with prices possibly dropping 17 percent by 2017, while other firms have tipped falls of up to 30 percent.
Hong Kong鈥檚 monetary authority last week raised its base interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.75 percent after the US Federal Reserve announced its first rate increase in more than nine years.
But chief analyst for Midland Realty Buggle Lau said the record-breaking purchase does not reflect the bigger picture of the overall property market in the city.
鈥淭he super-rich, I don鈥檛 think the small increase in the interest rates have any impact on their purchasing power,鈥 Lau said.
鈥淭his is exceptional, it can鈥檛 reflect the whole market,鈥 which he described overall as 鈥渟luggish.鈥
Property prices in Hong Kong, famous for its sky-high rent and super-rich tycoons, have more than doubled in six years due to record-low interest rates and a flood of wealthy buyers from China鈥檚 mainland.
Many residents complain they can no longer afford decent accommodation in the city of 7 million people, and analysts say property ownership is out of reach even for the upper middle class.
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