Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, delivered a speech in mid-July, hoping that Hong Kong could say goodbye to subdivided housing. The problem of subdivided housing has risen to the concern of "party and state leaders", but subdivided housing in a poor environment is still flooding the market.
The owner of a subdivided house was convicted and sentenced to 14 days in prison for illegal construction in August.
"Hong Kong 01" revealed that there is a "subdivided house family" behind the owner. The family group holds at least more than 100 subdivided houses with a market value of more than 130 million yuan. The properties that have been resold have earned more than 20 million yuan.
The family’s mother, the "Queen Dowager", has a record of more than 10 convictions for illegal construction and was sentenced to three months in prison.
The reporter met with the "Queen Dowager of the Subdivided House" to view the building. She admitted that she had borrowed the name of her children to invest in the purchase of a subdivided house.
If the Hong Kong government insists on banning subordinated housing, she said she would follow government policies, claiming that she was worried about paying high fines for lack of money.
Some scholars have stated that the current laws governing the operation of illegal sub-divided houses are not deterrent, and it is recommended that felonies should be increased for repeat offenders.
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The family group holds at least more than 100 subdivided houses with a market value of more than 130 million yuan, and the properties that have been resold have earned more than 20 million yuan.
The family’s mother, the "Queen Dowager", has a record of more than ten convictions for illegal construction. She was sentenced to three months in prison, her daughter was sentenced to two weeks in prison, and her son was also convicted and fined.
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Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, delivered a speech in mid-July, hoping that the housing problem in Hong Kong could be improved and bid farewell to sub-divided housing and cage homes.
However, the housing problem in Hong Kong is still serious. The average price per square foot of the subdivided houses is higher than that of private buildings in the same district, and the owners are still profitable.
Mother and daughter arrogant Jianjun were sentenced to imprisonment and son was fined
On August 18, Lin Yingzhu, the owner of the subordinated house in Paozhang Street, To Kwawan, was sentenced to 14 days in jail, suspended for 18 months, and fined more than 60,000 yuan for failing to clear the premises on time.
"Hong Kong 01" found that Lin Yingzhu's family owned more than a hundred subdivided houses for rent, and Lin's mother Huang Peiying had more than 10 conviction records for refusing to comply with the removal order in different properties.
The "Queen Dowager" Huang Peiying built a 400-square-foot unauthorized building on the roof of Changning Street. She was fined about 9,000 yuan in 2017, but she was still not cleared. She was eventually sentenced to 3 months in jail in 2018, with a suspended sentence Two years and a fine of more than 70,000 yuan.
In addition to the convictions and imprisonment of the two mothers and daughters, Lin Shihao, the son of the "Queen Dowager", was also fined 14,000 yuan for the same crime in 2013.
Huang Peiying, the “Queen Dowager”, had more than ten convictions in different properties for refusing to comply with the removal order. In 2018, he was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years, and fined more than 70,000 yuan.
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The family property has a market value of more than 130 million yuan, and the property has been sold for more than 20 million profits
I checked the properties of many "subdivided households". The subdivided Tin Hau Huang Peiying and his children currently hold about 30 to 40 units in old buildings, at least more than 100 subdivided houses, about 60% of which are located in To Kwa Wan. The rest are located in Kowloon City, Sham Shui Po, Jordan and other areas.
Calculating that she has bought more than 30 units over the years, she has already spent more than 50 million yuan.
Since about 1990, the Wong trio have been buying and selling old buildings. They have made a book profit of more than 20 million yuan on the properties that have been resold.
With the opening of the Shazhong line, the value of Huang's tenements has risen, and the current market value of his properties is estimated to be about 130 million to 180 million yuan.
The latest policy address indicated that studies will be conducted to lower the threshold for compulsory auctions of old buildings. If implemented, it will speed up the redevelopment of old buildings, and it will also be a piece of the pie.
As early as 2016, the underground unit at No. 68B To Kwa Wan Road held by the "Queen Dowager" was acquired by Henderson for 6 million yuan. She held the property for 9 years and made a book profit of 5.3 million yuan.
In recent years, the Wong family's subdivided real estate kingdom has continued to expand. For example, his son, Lin Shihao, paid a 15% spicy tax in 2019, which is 600,000 yuan, and bought a top-floor unit with rooftop at No.254 Apliu Street, Sham Shui Po, at a property price of 4 million yuan.
Holding nearly a hundred keys to take people to see the house, the foreign domestic helper believes that there are more than one hundred subdivided rooms
The reporter then met with the "Queen Dowager of the Sub-House" to look at the building. She dressed plainly and came with a hand-dragging cart to show people in her neighbourhood attire.
She introduced to reporters two subdivided houses in To Kwawan, one 70 square foot subdivided house and the other 120 square foot high-rise subdivided house. The latter had to go up stairs, and the price was also 3,000 yuan.
While the "Queen Dowager" took us to look at the flat, he took out nearly a hundred keys in the shopping cart, some of which were affixed with the street name of the property to which he belonged. The "Queen Dowager" searched for nearly ten minutes before finding out the key to the flat for the foreign domestic helper. The foreign domestic helper led us up the stairs to the high-rise building.
The foreign helper revealed that the "Queen Dowager" asked her to take people to the apartment from time to time. We asked her if the "Queen Dowager" had over 100 subdivided houses. The renters are mostly South Asians and only a few locals.
There are "black toilets" in the two small sub-districts, that is, toilets without windows.
According to Article 36 of the Building (Planning) Regulations, the bathroom and toilet of the living room must be provided with windows or skylights. Otherwise, approval from the Buildings Department is required to build a black toilet.
However, checking the records of the Buildings Department’s Hundred-floor Picture Network showed that these subdivided houses did not apply for black toilets. Therefore, both subdivided houses violated building laws and were illegal subdivided houses or illegal construction.
While the "Queen Dowager" took us to look at the building, she took out more than a hundred keys in the shopping cart, and the domestic helper nodded and said that she had hundreds of subdistrict houses.
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$10 million in compensation for redevelopment
The reporter later identified the "Queen Dowager" and asked whether there were multiple subdistricted rooms.
She denied it at first, but when asked if she rented out the sub-divided house with her children, she said that her children had no money to buy a house. She borrowed the name of her children to buy multiple properties for rent. She even claimed that the sub-divided house was already in the form of a sub-divided house when she bought the property.
The "Queen Dowager" mentioned her fortune during the talk, saying that at the time To Kwa Wan was rebuilt, her four properties received nearly 10 million yuan in compensation.
She used the compensation to buy multiple sub-divided houses, and said that when she had no funds, she used the property to borrow to buy a house. Therefore, she now holds a number of properties, even saying that she has paid more than one million yuan in property taxes over the years.
10 illegal construction convictions for forgetting to execute removal order
Regarding the multiple convictions for illegal construction, the "Queen Dowager" claimed that occasionally omissions and forgotten to execute the removal order, but she also admitted that she was afraid of being convicted and fined and living in jail, but asked why she still rented the sub-apartment. The saying "There is nothing to do," they all follow suit, and no one wants to sell them. They all wait for the acquisition.
Speaking of the central government officials’ "farewell to subdivided housing," the "Queen Dowager" said that if the government wanted to ban subordinated housing, it could only follow government policies and claimed that it was unable to pay high fines.
She even claimed that "I used to buy a sub-divided house to help the grassroots." Some tenants who failed to pay the rent would also be accommodating.
However, when the foreign helper was looking at the building, she said that she would cut off the water and electricity of the tenants who did not pay the rent and put on a new door lock.
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Wu Meiqin: Repeated offenders should be punished heavily
The subdivided housing report of the Transport and Housing Bureau stated that there are more than 100,000 subdivided houses in private buildings over 15 years of age, and more than 226,000 subdivided houses live in them.
Subdivided households account for about 3 to 4% of the population of Hong Kong. Wu Meiqin, a professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University, believes that Hong Kong, as a prosperous city, has sufficient financial resources to solve the problem of subdivided housing.
Wu bluntly said that the living environment of subdivided households is poor. In the face of subdivided house owners who violate the rules, the penalty should be progressive. Repeat offenders should have heavier penalties, otherwise they lack deterrence.
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