Housing prices have always been a problem that plagues most people, but it may be difficult for everyone to imagine that as entertainment film and television stars with higher incomes in China, they also face huge pressure to buy houses, and even Hong Kong stars are squeezed out by high housing prices.
When it comes to Hong Kong, most people think of a bustling world of red and green lights, but in fact, behind the brilliant lights of Hong Kong is the painful world inhabited by countless people, and even the movie stars who appear on the screen can't stand it.
As early as 2010, Hong Kong has been ranked first in the world's housing prices, and no city has been able to break Hong Kong's price standards for 11 years
According to this year's Hong Kong house price statistics, the more prosperous Tuen Mun district house price per square is about 107,000 yuan, of which the best real estate price in the lot, the asking price per square is 209,000 yuan, converted down, the house price in Hong Kong is almost 140,000 yuan on average.
Such a price can even be used as a down payment in some second- and third-tier cities in the mainland, which shows that Hong Kong's housing prices are indeed worthy of the name, but what is even more incredible is that most celebrities cannot afford to buy a house in Hong Kong.
Well-known artists such as Zhang Jiahui and Cecilia Cheung have said that the pressure to buy a house in Hong Kong is very great, and even many Hong Kong celebrities have chosen to leave the local area to buy a house.
There are two reasons for this problem, one is that Hong Kong house prices are too high, and the other is that the salaries of these stars are indeed too low.
Take TVB, a famous Hong Kong broadcaster, for example, the company has produced countless well-known artists, including Gu Tianle, Xu Shaoxiong, Wu Zhenyu and others, but their salaries are not enough to afford Hong Kong's high housing prices.
Even in January this year, artist Wang Mingquan publicly called on TVB to raise the salary level of artists, and as of the middle of this year, due to the impact of the epidemic, coupled with the pressure of low wages and high housing prices, more than 600 artists in Hong Kong TVB have lost their jobs.
Many celebrity artists have come to the mainland to buy real estate with assets that are not particularly many, including Wan Ziliang and Wu Qihua.
Mention Wan Ziliang everyone will certainly not be too strange, in the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" played the eldest brother, he has always been considered a rich man with a lot of money, but in fact, even he did not buy a house in Hong Kong, but chose to go to Guangzhou to buy a villa.
Wu Qihua, who has starred in many TV series and movies, is no exception, and on November 1 this year, Wu Qihua publicly said that he bought a property in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province.
Like Cecilia Cheung also took her children to Shanghai to buy a house, movie star Zhang Weijian went to Beijing early to develop, it can be said that more and more Hong Kong artists are focusing on choosing mainland real estate, which shows that Hong Kong's housing prices have indeed reached an unaffordable level.
But Hong Kong still has a permanent population of 7.47 million, are they indifferent in the face of high housing prices?
The answer is true, Hong Kong people's living concept is very different from the mainland, the original local implementation of a housing treatment called public rental housing, as long as you meet the application conditions, even if married can live in such housing.
The maximum rent of these houses is only a few thousand Hong Kong dollars, which is still relatively cost-effective for young people, after all, it costs four million yuan to buy a rough small house in Hong Kong, which is too economical and worry-free to rent.
Therefore, for most Hong Kong people, house prices have risen to a certain extent that they cannot afford to buy, so they simply do not buy and live in public rental housing.
It is understood that nearly 60% of Hong Kong's population lives in such houses, so no matter how high the housing prices in Hong Kong are, they do not have much to do with them.
Moreover, most of the real estate in Hong Kong is very small, many people will choose to live in some small square compartments, there have been Hong Kong designers specifically for these residents to provide design services, a 6 square size place, Hong Kong designers can create a kitchen bathroom and bedroom environment.
Therefore, for Hong Kong people, it doesn't matter whether they buy a house or not, after all, they can't afford it.
Now that ordinary people can't afford it and celebrities are moving out on a large scale, Hong Kong's real estate market seems to have to reflect on how to develop in the future.
At present, the mainland has begun to collect real estate taxes and fees, and through the regulation of real estate prices in many ways, will there be different changes in house prices in the mainland and Hong Kong? We'll see.