Property transactions drop in Q1 as prices slide
Macau Daily Times. 16 May 2025. Macau’s property market saw a notable slowdown in the first quarter of 2025, with a total of 1,348 building units and parking spaces transacted, down 1.5% quarter-on-quarter, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Transaction value fell sharply by 28.4% to MOP5.33 billion. Residential property sales dropped by […]
City leader vows legal safeguards for foreign businesses
Macau Business. By Aries Un. 13 May 2025 Chief Executive Sam Ho Fai has pledged to protect foreign business interests in Macau as long as they comply with local regulations. The promise was made by the city’s leader during a press conference held on the heels of the departure of the country’s top official overseeing […]
SAR economy to grow at moderate pace in 2025 – AMCM
Macau Business, Newsdesk. 4 February 2025. Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) “is expected to advance at a moderate pace in 2025,” the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) stated in its latest Monetary and Financial Stability Review. The city’s economic growth will be “propelled by sustainable tourism and increased non-gaming investment,” according to the report, also quoted […]
Macau’s Portuguese strive to preserve their cultural heritage
As the casino city approaches the 25th anniversary of its handover to China, the challenges in Macau for the expat community are growing.
Lawmakers pass bill axing all property market curbs
Macau Post Daily, 19 March 2024. By Tony Wong On 18 March 2024 the Legislative Assembly (AL) unanimously passed a government-initiated bill axing all cooling measures for the property market. The new law will cancel an additional 10-percent stamp duty levied on those buying a third residential unit, an additional 10-percent stamp duty on non-local […]
Ryan Choi of Ambiente Macau speaks with Ponto Final
1 March 2024. Ryan Choi, general manager of Ambiente Macau was interviewed by Ponto Final to give his thoughts on the impact in Macau of Hong Kong’s cancellation in February of restrictive measures for the real estate industry there. Ryan believes that Macau will likely need to follow suit to support a flagging real estate […]
How will this impact Macau? Hong Kong scraps all property curbs in radical bid to boost ailing market
South China Morning Post. SCMP reporters. 28 February 2024. In his 2024-25 budget today Hong Kong finance chief Paul Chan Mo-po has announced the city will remove all restrictions on property transactions as part of his solutions to the sluggish economy and shrinking fiscal reserves in what some analysts are calling the most difficult budget blueprint […]
‘If Macao can be a 100 percent free market, confidence will be regained,’ says real estate expert
Macao News, by Staff Reporter. 8 February 2024. JLL Macau wants the government to drop all property market cooling measures, a move he says was key to realising buyers and sellers’ expectations. Macao’s property woes are worsening, according to real estate company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). The company predicts that rents will rise by up […]
Rents rose by 10 percent in 2023, says the real estate sector
The hike in rents in Macau last year was driven by locals preferring to rent rather than buy in the present economy, along with demand from both non-resident workers and mainland Chinese students.
