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The Lands Department registered 23 lease modifications in the Land Registry during the quarter ending December 2014, of which 13 were modifications of a technical nature involving nil premium.
Among these 23 land transactions, 13 are located on Hong Kong Island, seven in Kowloon and three in the New Territories. The transactions exclude Small House cases.
Another lot was granted by private treaty during the period for the development of government quarters in Kwai Chung.
The above land transactions realised a total land premium of about $481.309 million.
Transaction records of the lease modifications, land exchanges and private treaty grants, including those registered recently, are uploaded to the Lands Department's website (www.landsd.gov.hk) on a monthly basis. Details of the transactions may be obtained by searching the registered documents in the Land Registry.
Ends/Friday, January 16, 2015
Issued at HKT 17:00
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