As I am not a property owner, of coz I am happy to see some downward adjustment on property price.
But I am a bit curious...according to Dr. Tong, if my understanding is correct, two groups of people are facing financial difficulties now,
i) one group is those who did not have enough downpayment so they borrow 70% of property price from bank and the remaining 10% from money lender.
ii) the second group is those who did not need to borrow $ from money lender in the beginning but then they think that the monthly mortgage payment is quite high so they go to money lender to borrow money.
To me, it seems that the number of these two groups of people is minimal because they just cant afford the high interest rate charged by money lender and the end result is foreclosure as predicted by Dr. Tong.
However, "根據資料顯示,每一個工作日大約有100宗二按,全年計數超過二萬宗". Just wonder whether these cases are accumulating or they would just repay by the borrowers in a few months as they just have some emergency need for money and they all know that if they cant repay the money in a few months, they would lose their properties. I just dont think HK people are that stupid (though i really want to see some adjustment on property market).
Btw, thanks Dr. Tong for posting commentary on property market even during CNY! The first thing i do everyday is to go to this website to check out his blog!