Hong Kong Edition

Turns Out These Empty Hong Kong Luxury Homes Were Popular After All

They built the Corniche but no one came, except for private credit lenders. 

Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg

This week, credit reporter Lorretta Chen finds the nearly empty Corniche luxury towers to be surprisingly popular with investors, while Krystal Chia reports on a hot new bar she thinks could become well-received.

It’s hard to imagine a better example of Hong Kong’s slumping property market than the Corniche, the lavish residential complex in Ap Lei Chau overlooking the South China Sea.