Upcoming new home launches in Hong Kong serve as a test for how Beijing's stricter capital control measures might affect the city's recovering real estate sector.

New homes that Hong Kong developers will launch in the coming days and weeks will serve as a crucial test of the impact of Beijing’s latest capital-control measures, amid signs of recovery in the city’s residential property market. “Seemingly, a number of developers have turned more cautious in launching primary projects of late,” said Jack Tong, director of research and consultancy at Savills Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese buyers had accounted for about a third of all home purchases in Hong Kong.....