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SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1992

THIS WAS

ΤΟ A SPECIAL CONCESSION

LOWER-INCOME

OWNERS,

MR AND

AND GLEESON COMMENDED THE SOCIETY PROFESSION FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.

GROUP HOME

THE

SOLICITORS

THERE WERE 6,704 ASSIGNMENTS OF LOTS AND SECTIONS. 34.5 PER CENT MORE THAN IN 1990,

THE

AMOUNT OF THE CONSIDERATIONS IN TOTAL INCREASED BY 50.1 PER CENT FROM $27.37 BILLION IN BILLION.

THESE

THIS WAS

ASSIGNMENTS 1990 ΤΟ $41.07

THERE WERE 156 BUILDING MORTGAGES AND 213,081 OTHER

LAST YEAR, COMPARED WITH 155 AND 185,883

REGISTERED

1990.

LAST

MORTGAGES

RESPECTIVELY IN

MORTGAGES REGISTERED THE TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED UNDER BUILDING YEAR DROPPED BY 5 PER CENT FROM $9.42 BILLION IN 1990 TO $8.96

BILLION.

$92.11

THAN BUILDING THE TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED UNDER MORTGAGES OTHER MORTGAGES ROSE BY 18.3 PER CENT FROM $77.83 BILLION IN 1990 TO BILLION.

ANY AMOUNT

THE TOTAL AMOUNT ACTUALLY DRAWN DOWN ON THESE MORTGAGES AT

TIME MAY BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS

PARTICULAR SECURED.

OF ALL

THAN

KINDS,

THE TOTAL

MORTGAGES UNDER REPAYMENTS

AS EVIDENCED DISCHARGES AND MORTGAGEE'S RECEIPTS, INCREASED BY 22.1 PER CENT $33.15 BILLION IN 1990 TO $40.47 BILLION.

י.

BY FROM

SEARCHES BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC LAST YEAR TOTALLED 3,168,942,

UP BY 21.7 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 1990.

THERE WERE 813 SURRENDERS AND RESUMPTIONS OF LAND WITH A COMPENSATION OF $0.56 BILLION PAID IN BOTH THE URBAN AREA AND THE TERRITORIES, COMPARED WITH 1,216 AND $0.72 BILLION IN 1990.

A TOTAL OF 1,282 GOVERNMENT LAND TRANSACTIONS LAST YEAR COMPARED WITH 1,281 IN 1990.

THE

MORE

SIGNIFICANT GOVERNMENT LAND LAST YEAR WERE THE FOLLOWING:

JANUARY 18

*

FEBRUARY 25

TOTAL

NEW

WERE

COMPLETED

TRANSACTIONS

COMPLETED

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION OF A 12,090-SQUARE METRE SITE (TAI PO TOWN LOT NO. 110) IN AREA 6 TAI PO TO BEST REWARD DEVELOPMENT LIMITED AT A PREMIUM OF $280,000,000 FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL

PURPOSES.

LOT BY

A

GRANT OF A 4,033-SQUARE METRE SITE (INLAND NO. 8732) IN CENTRAL, HONG KONG AND BOUNDED HOLLYWOOD ROAD, SHING WONG STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL TO HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY AT PREMIUM OF $207,260,000 FOR NON-INDUSTRIAL (EXCLUDING GODOWN) PURPOSES.

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