Hong Kong Beats London For Most Expensive Offices

根据房地产经纪公司高纬物业(Cushman & Wakefield)的一份报告，尽管香港的租金下滑了4%，但它仍超过伦敦西区成为世界上写字楼租金最贵的城市。这份报告称，伦敦西区和伦敦市的最优租金过去一年里分别下降了23%和19%，让伦敦西区的租金跌至全球第三，落后于香港和东京。这项调查称，香港的租金为每年每平方米1,743欧元（2,239美元），高于东京的1,649欧元和伦敦西区的1,403欧元。这些数据中包括了物业税和服务费。但经纪公司称，由于香港金融业规模的缩小，香港的写字楼可能供大于求。同其它金融中心类似，最近租金也逆转了上涨的势头。高力国际物业顾问有限公司(Colliers International)说，仅在今年1月份，香港中环地区的实际写字楼租金就比12月份下跌了9.1%。在过去两年中，由于银行对冲基金和其它希望从中国蓬勃发展的市场中获益的企业大量进驻，香港核心区中环地区的写字楼空置率降到了接近于零的水平。由于新增供应量非常稀少，香港最高的摩天大楼国际金融中心二期的租金在2003年至2008年期间飙升了8倍之多。Jonathan Cheng相关阅读香港09年财政预算不增反降 2009-02-26香港08年GDP增2.5%  增幅低于预期 2009-02-25


WSJA(2/26) Hong Kong Beats London For Most Expensive Offices (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA) By Jonathan ChengHONG KONG -- Despite seeing rents slip by 4%, Hong Kong leapt ahead of London's West End as home of the world's most expensive office space in 2008, according to a report by property broker Cushman & Wakefield.Prime rents in London's West End and City districts fell by 23% and 19%, respectively, during the year, the report said, pushing the West End to third on the global rent list, behind Hong Kong and Tokyo. The survey, which includes property taxes and service charges in its calculations, had rents in Hong Kong at 1,743 euros ($2,239) per square meter per year, higher than Tokyo's 1,649 euros and the West End's 1,403 euros.But brokers say there now may be a glut of office space as Hong Kong's financial sector downsizes. As they have in other financial hubs, rents recently have reversed their gains. In January alone, property consultants Colliers International says effective office rents in Hong Kong's Central district fell 9.1% from December.Hong Kong saw office vacancy in its core Central district dip to near-zero levels in the past two years as banks, hedge funds and other businesses aimed at capturing China's booming market jostled for space.With only a trickle of new supply in the pipeline, office rents surged as much as eightfold between 2003 and 2008 in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, the second phase of the International Finance Center project.-0-Copyright (c) 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.