London, NY, HK no longer immune to the housing slump


NEW YORK: In the years since the financial crisis, global cities like London, Hong Kong and New York appeared to defy housing-market cycles, thanks to a concentration of financial jobs and the self-fulfilling belief that they offered investors a safe haven.

Now every release of data seems to turn those assumptions on their head.

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