Rental yield quotes are gross figures. Using one verified early-September letting, this guide works through how Hong Kong property tax is computed, when a personal assessment election changes the answer, and which filing dates carry a consequence worse than a penalty.
THE SOUTHSIDE has delivered resale losses above 30 per cent to some of its first-phase buyers and resale gains above 20 per cent to buyers three years later. We read the registrations, the lettings and the walking times to answer whether it is a good place to live and whether it is worth buying.
Cash rebates are what banks advertise, but the saving lives in the rate spread — and the penalty period, the valuation and the building age decide whether a switch is worth doing at all.
A two-part guide to Mid-Levels West: what the 504 sale and 161 rental listings currently on PropMark actually contain, how building age splits the rate per square foot, and what the district is really like to live in.
Water seepage is the most common flat-to-flat dispute in Hong Kong, and the investigation procedure changed on 16 July 2026. What the Joint Office can and cannot act on, the 35 per cent evidential threshold, who ends up paying for the damage, and the checks that belong in every purchase and tenancy.
A racecourse valley with no MTR station, no mall, and no estate big enough to define it — but housing running from HK$4.8 million to HK$88 million within one square kilometre. What is available, what it costs, what living there is like, and an honest read on who it suits.
Every one of the 801 lettings at HK$10,000 to HK$20,000 in Central and Western buildings under ten years old was 400 sq ft or smaller, and none had two bedrooms. The registered records show a single-occupier market running alongside the traditional local one — and the sale prices explain why the yield gap is narrower than the rent gap suggests.
Most Hong Kong buyers study price per square foot and skip a harder question: how many buyers will exist for this flat when it is their turn to sell. Three years of registered Hong Kong Island transactions give a surprisingly clear answer.
Two neighbouring South Island Line districts, each with a sale market that is effectively a single estate. Registered transactions from August 2026 show what one MTR stop and three decades of building age are worth per square foot.
Price per square foot is the figure every Hong Kong buyer quotes and the one most likely to mislead them. Here is how the number is built, where it breaks down, and the narrow set of comparisons it actually answers.