HK property agents losing jobs amid govt home-buying curbs

Tue, Dec 10, 2013 - 6:00 AM

[HONG KONG] Chu Kin-lan has already shuttered six of 11 offices of her Hong Kong real estate agency, whose Chinese name translates as Precious Prosperity, and let go half of her 70 employees amid the city's toughest curbs on home buying in its history. The worst pain may be still to come.

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