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Speculators join queue for Housing Society flats 2.
The Key to tourism 3.
Home prices could stage a 10 per cent recovery
1. Two Jailed for Piling Scam
The Housing Society's Cayman Rise residential development in western Mid-Levels
has attracted the strongest interest in the property market this year with more
than 4,400 prospective buyers registering for the 432 units on offer today. Agents
say many of the potential buyers are apparently eager to speculate on the units,
thereby indicating a possible bright spot in the otherwise lackluster housing
market. [Source:
HK-iMail, 1 September 2001] 2.
The Key to tourism
The plan to reinvent Central Police Station and its surrounds as a social hub
with markets, galleries, restaurants and bars involves complex decision, writes
Annemarie Evans. The complex was the focus of a feasibility project commissioned
in 1998 by Swire Properties and carried out by Project Chambers, a group of experts
including landscape architect and urban planners who assessed whether the site's
17 buildings and surroundings could be adapted to other uses. [Source:
SCMP, 1 September 2001] 3.
Home prices could stage a 10 per cent recovery
Within one or two months if the Government delivers a clear housing policy to
remove its interventionist measures, according to UBS Warburg. [Source:
SCMP, 1 September 2001]
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