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The Lands Department issued two pre-sale consents for commercial development last month (October).

The two commercial projects, located in Kowloon and New Territories respectively, are estimated to be completed by June 2004, a spokesman for the department said today (November 6).

The department also issued one consent to assign involving 768 residential units and one consent to assign for commercial development in October.

At the end of the month, there were 16 applications for pre-sale consent involving a total of 9,417 residential units throughout the territory. All of them are expected to be completed before October 2005. Meanwhile, there were five applications for pre-sale consent involving commercial units in Kowloon.

In addition, there were three applications for consent to assign involving 2,418 residential units and two applications for consent to assign for commercial developments.

For information on the pre-sale consents, members of the public can call the Lands Department at 2147 5475 or visit its website at www.info.gov.hk/landsd/.

The names of the developer, its parent company (if any), solicitors firm acting, authorized person (including the name of the firm) and the mortgagee bank (if any) in respect of individual developments are also available to the public in the form of reports obtainable through the fax-on-demand facilities of the hotline or the Lands Department Website.

End/Thursday, November 6, 2003

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• Particulars of presale consent and consent to assign issued from 01/10/2003 to 31/10/2003(pdf format)


• Particulars of application for presale consent and consent to assign pending approval as at 31/10/2003(pdf format)