THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1994
LAND REGISTRATION FIGURES FOR JANUARY
BUILDING MONTH MONTH, BUT
OF AGREEMENTS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SALE AND PURCHASE
MAINLY
BY FLATS, RECEIVED
THE UNITS,
LAND REGISTRY LAST CENT COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS DECREASED BY 1.5 PER INCREASED BY 152.9 PER CENT COMPARED WITH JANUARY LAST YEAR.
IN ALL, 10,749 AGREEMENTS INVOLVING A TOTAL OF WERE RECEIVED FOR REGISTRATION LAST MONTH.
THE
$40.53 BILLION
THE FIGURES ARE INCLUDED IN THE MONTHLY STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY
LAND REGISTRAR ON PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
AT RECEIVED FOR REGISTRATION
THE URBAN AND NEW TERRITORIES LAND REGISTRIES.
A TABLE SHOWING THE RELEVANT STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER JANUARY 1993 WAS ALSO RELEASED.
1993 AND
SIX BUILDING MORTGAGES AND 9,013 OTHER MORTGAGES WERE RECEIVED RESPECTIVELY FOR REGISTRATION LAST MONTH, COMPARED WITH 17 AND 10,001 IN JANUARY LAST YEAR.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED UNDER NEW BUILDING MONTH WAS $0.45 BILLION COMPARED WITH $0.61 BILLION YEAR.
MORTGAGES IN THE IN JANUARY LAST
THE TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED UNDER NEW MORTGAGES OTHER THAN
FROM BUILDING MORTGAGES DECREASED BY 7.3 PER CENT
$8.78 BILLION IN JANUARY LAST YEAR TO $8.14 BILLION IN JANUARY THIS YEAR.
REPAYMENTS UNDER MORTGAGES OF ALL KINDS, AS DISCHARGES AND MORTGAGEE'S RECEIPTS, INCREASED BY 14.7 PER
IN $3.68 BILLION IN JANUARY LAST YEAR TO $4.22 BILLION YEAR.
EVIDENCED
CENT JANUARY
BY FROM THIS
/THE LAND