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Housing Authority's 60,000 units of subsidized sale units have been paid up and the number of premiums last year hit a five-year low

2021-04-30T20:31:39.309Z


Once the subsidized sale housing is paid for, the unit can be sold or rented out on the open market. In reply to the legislator’s written question today (28th), the Transport and Housing Bureau stated that there are currently about 61,320 subsidized sale flats that the Housing Authority has paid for.


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Written by: Wang Jieen

2021-04-28 16:24

Last update date: 2021-04-28 16:24

Once the subsidized sale housing is paid for, the unit can be sold or rented out on the open market.

In response to a written question from a legislator today (28th), the Transport and Housing Bureau stated that there are currently about 61,320 subsidized-sale units that the Housing Authority has paid for. Last year, the number of premium units was the lowest in five years, with an average of 1.66 million for each unit. yuan.

As for the housing association units, on average, each unit has to pay a premium of 2.1 million yuan, and the "sandwich houses" of Grand View Terrace and Yuehai Hua Ting have the most premium units.

In addition, the bureau also revealed that the land price income of the previous year dropped sharply, with a decrease of 53 billion yuan year-on-year, a five-year low.

Once subsidized sale housing is paid for, the flats can be sold or rented out on the open market. At present, there are about 61,000 subsidized sale flats that the Housing Authority has paid for.

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The Transport and Housing Bureau stated that as of March this year, the Housing Authority had paid about 61,000 subsidized-sale flats, including 58,900 HOS flats and about 2,370 rental flats.

The Housing Authority's average premium per unit is 1.66 million yuan

Statistics show that the Housing Authority had a total of 572 subsidized-sale flats with premiums last year, which was the least in the past five years. On average, each unit required a premium of 1.66 million yuan.

In contrast, the Housing Association’s subsidized sale units had 128 premiums last year, a five-year high, with an average premium of 2.1 million per unit.

Rental premium units hit a five-year decline

In addition, the government earlier suggested that the Housing Authority should expedite the sale of "tail" units in the Tenant Purchase Scheme.

The latest information shows that the Housing Authority’s premium rental units dropped sharply last year, and last year there were only 50 units.

However, data shows that there have been 88 to 160 haiku in the past four years.

The Transportation and Housing Bureau pointed out that in the "sandwich house" project of the Housing Association, Haojing Terrace had the most premium units, with a total of 477 units.

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The most premium unit at Grand View Terrace

The bureau also revealed that among the housing association’s residential sales plan and subsidized sale housing projects, Po Lam Indy Garden was the "most popular". As of April 16 this year, there have been 354 premium units so far; followed by Tsuen Wan Prayer. There are 327 units in Dezun New Village.

As for the Lvyou Garden, which was only put on sale in 2012, two units have already completed the premium.

As for the "sandwich houses" of the Housing Association, there are also 477 units in Lai King Park, which has the most units, while the Southern District Yue Hai Court has 356 units.

Land price income is greatly reduced

In addition, under the influence of the epidemic last year, Hong Kong’s land price income has also fallen sharply.

In response to another member's enquiry, the Transport and Housing Bureau stated that in the previous year (2020/21), the land price revenue was only 88.7 billion yuan, accounting for only 16.3% of the total government revenue, a decrease of 53 billion yuan year-on-year.

The buyer's stamp duty, commonly known as "hot tricks," also hit a five-year low, at only 2.7 billion yuan.

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