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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 42

(Chapter 13: Land, Public Works and Utilities)

The Land Registry

1997

1998

1999

Documents received for registration (numbers)

Assignments of land

10 959

Assignments of building units

220 911

7 350

134 994

4 448

140 858

Agreements for sale and purchase of land

5 133

2 080

1 678

Agreements for sale and purchase of building units

205 461

111 489

98 466

Building mortgages/building legal charges

75

65

38

Other mortgages/legal charges

252 324

154 228

181 144

Reassignments/receipts/discharges/releases and

certificates of satisfaction

201 651

93 015

121 176

Miscellaneous

94 052

97 401

100 071

Total

990 566

600 622

647 879

Considerations of documents received for registration ($ million)

Assignments of land

93,750

24,311

35,670

Assignments of building units

790,408

348,352

300,059

Agreements for sale and purchase of land

69,787

23,706

30,369

Agreements for sale and purchase of building units.

868,019

340,906

256,641

Building mortgages/building legal charges

20,007

4,877

4,158

Other mortgages/legal charges

98,072

92,129

94,679

Reassignments/receipts/discharges/releases and

certificates of satisfaction

35,188

16,881

23,952

Total

1,975,231

851,162

745,528

Conditions of sale, grant, exchange, etc registered

(numbers)

Government leases registered (numbers)

Multi-storey building owners corporations registered

(numbers)

900

655

589

15

14

20

258

285

287

Public searches of Land Registers and records (numbers)

5 408 040

3 133 845

3 245 319

Source:

Land Registry.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2867 2882)

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