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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