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The Lands Department issued three consents for the sale of 1,925 residential units in uncompleted development projects last month (November).

The residential projects, located on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon, are estimated to be completed between February 2004 and February 2005, a spokesman for the department said today (December 4).

At the end of the month, there were 15 applications for pre-sale consent involving a total of 8,740 residential units throughout Hong Kong. All of them are expected to be completed before October 2005. 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 on 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, authorised 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.

Ends/Thursday, December 4, 2003

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• Particulars of presale consent and consent to assign issued for the period from 01/11/2003 to 30/11/2003(pdf format)


• Particulars of application for presale consent and consent to assign pending approval as at 30/11/2003(pdf format)