Previous steps included rolling out higher down-payment requirements for buyers and increasing land supply for developers.
He said the increased land supply would eventually provide 30, 000 to 40, 000 new homes in the market.
The Shanghai municipal government will continue to increase land supply and reform property tax, mayor Han Zheng said Wednesday.
The government has a firm hand on the key property market since it controls the land supply, selling sites to developers.
Authorities also raised down-payment requirements and increased land supply for developers.
In the near term, various sites across Hong Kong will be rezoned, restrictions lifted and approvals sped up to increase the land supply for housing by over 300 hectares, enough space for some 128, 700 units.
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Housing prices in Hong Kong have soared 50% over the past two years, prompting the government to introduce a series of measures to cool the market that includes boosting the land supply and raising property taxes targeted specifically at speculators.
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Indian agriculture, he insists, faces shrinking land and water supply, thanks to increasing urbanization.
These are facing delays over land acquisition, fuel supply and environmental issues, the minister said.
The plentiful supply of land once available to settlers moving west is one example.
But he says the key problem is not the companies - it is the supply of land for development.
The 1999 budget reduces social and environmental spending, including health, education, sanitation, water supply, land reform and welfare programmes.
They first look at tightly regulated metropolitan markets, like Boston, Massachusetts, with a meager supply of land and strict zoning regulations.
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Mr Tsang promised only to continue trying to boost the supply of land and find potential new areas for land reclamation.
In many of these places, available land is in short supply and the coveted rights to sizable plots fetch exorbitant prices.
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The IMF encouraged the government to consider the possibility of increasing the supply of land to the market to help in moderating property prices.
His argument goes like this: because there is a relatively short supply of land on the market, a handful of housing developers dominate the market.
Hong Kong recently tightened its mortgage lending rules and promised to increase the supply of land after prices soared about 45% since the beginning of 2009.
In mid-August, the government announced new measures aimed at curbing rapid real estate price rises by restricting lending for luxury flats and increasing the supply of land for development.
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That means the recovery in both home construction and new-home sales could be held back until developers replenish their supply of land, especially in areas where buyers want to live.
In recent years, there also has been a dearth of new supply despite plentiful land.
Faced with a surplus supply, local land departments still urge developers to launch new projects, the magazine observes.
The supply of available land is quickly dwindling in many key areas, which gives the existing-home market a distinct advantage.
But as the supply of city land shrank, the Housing Partnership turned its focus to mostly provided technical assistance to developers.
On the green car section of the Edmunds site, users seem more concerned about the fact that in the United States, we use mostly corn to make ethanol, which has consequences on the food supply and the land.
The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars in October 2016.
The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars as soon as October 2016.
Two implications follow: there will be too much investment, and the price of assets that are in limited supply, such as land, will rise excessively.
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For the refugee camps in the east, supply lines to the land-locked country are already under pressure as pre-positioning of food starts ahead of the rainy season.
Surveyors believe uncertainty over the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the future of farming has also reduced supply and demand for land among the farming community.
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