The Land Registry - Monthly Statistics for January 2010

Current Monthly Statistics

The statistics generally relate to land transactions executed up to four weeks prior to their submission for registration, as there is usually a time lag between the execution of deeds and their lodgement for registration.

Consolidated Monthly Statistics in respect of deeds received for registration in the Land Registry

Month : January 2010

[Table summary]

Item	Nature of Deeds	Number of Deeds received for registration			Consideration (nearest $ million)
Item	Nature of Deeds	Urban	New Territories	Total	Urban	New Territories	Total
1.	Agreements for Sale and Purchase of Building Units	6,025 ( 6,598 )	6,355 ( 6,681)	12,380 ( 13,279 )	27,920	16,792	44,712
2.	Agreements for Sale and Purchase of Land	10	142	152	1,511	700	2,211
Sub-total (1)+(2)		6,035	6,497	12,532	29,431	17,492	46,923
3.	Assignments of Building Units	6,118 ( 6,856 )	7,263 ( 7,693 )	13,381 ( 14,549 )	29,763	19,730	49,493
4.	Assignments of Land	29	442	471	4,721	1,072	5,793
Sub-total (3)+(4)		6,147	7,705	13,852	34,484	20,802	55,286
5.	Building Mortgages/Building Legal Charges	4	8	12	-	-	-
6.	Other Mortgages/Legal Charges	5,268	6,638	11,906	-	-	-
Sub-total (5)+(6)		5,272	6,646	11,918	-	-	-
7.	Receipts/Discharges/Releases	6,200	6,806	13,006	-	-	-
8.	Leases/Tenancy Agreements	256	127	383	-	-	-
9.	Exclusion Orders	0	0	0	-	-	-
10.	Others	5,668	4,106	9,774	-	-	-
Total		29,578	31,887	61,465	-	-	-

Note:Figures in brackets denote number of units involved

Comparison of Monthly Statistics

Month : January 2010

[Table summary]

Item		2010 January	2009 December	2009 January	January 2010 Increase(+) or Decrease (-)as compared with
					December 2009		January 2009
					No. or Consideration	%	No. or Consideration	%
1.	Agreements for Sale and Purchase of Building Units
	(a) No.	12,380	11,112	5,759	+1,268	+11.4	+6,621	+115.0
	(b) Consideration	44,712	42,855	18,684	+1,857	+4.3	+26,028	+139.3
2.	Agreements for Sale and Purchase of Land
	(a) No.	152	222	128	-70	-31.5	+24	+18.8
	(b) Consideration	2,211	4,611	1,301	-2,400	-52.0	+910	+69.9
Sub-total of (1)+(2)
(a) No.		12,532	11,334	5,887	+1,198	+10.6	+6,645	+112.9
(b) Consideration		46,923	47,466	19,985	-543	-1.1	+26,938	+134.8
3.	Assignments of Building Units
	(a) No.	13,381	15,207	7,234	-1,826	-12.0	+6,147	85.0
	(b) Consideration	49,493	53,975	21,944	-4,482	-8.3	+27,549	+125.5
4.	Assignments of Land
	(a) No.	471	616	525	-145	-23.5	-54	-10.3
	(b) Consideration	5,793	2,559	820	+3,234	+126.4	+4,973	+606.5
Sub-total of (3)+(4)
(a) No.		13,852	15,823	7,759	-1,971	-12.5	+6,093	+78.5
(b) Consideration		55,286	56,534	22,764	-1,248	-2.2	+32,522	+142.9
5.	No. of Building Mortgages/Building Legal Charges	12	17	8	-5	-29.4	+4	+50.0
6.	No. of Other Mortgages/Legal Charges	11,906	13,473	5,668	-1,567	-11.6	+6,238	+110.1
Sub-total of (5)+(6)		11,918	13,490	5,676	-1,572	-11.7	+6,242	+110.0
7.	No. of Receipts/ Discharges/Releases	13,006	14,678	6,382	-1,672	-11.4	+6,624	+103.8
8	No. of Public Search	494,105	419,529	260,950	+74,576	+17.8	+233,155	+89.3

Note:Consideration rounded to the nearest million Hong Kong dollars.

Number of Sale and Purchase Agreements (ASP) of building units

Chart showing the number of sale and purchase agreements of residential and non-residentail building units for 13 months

Year	2009												2010
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
ASP for all building units	5,759	5,043	8,062	11,148	13,067	15,747	14,039	13,245	14,437	11,112	11,191	11,112	12,380
ASP for residential building units	4,875	4,487	7,102	9,856	11,788	13,805	12,023	11,250	12,285	9,300	9,213	9,108	10,656
12-month moving average for all ASP	8,506	7,728	7,483	7,500	7,744	8,067	8,493	9,063	9,652	10,074	10,691	11,164	11,715

Note:Sales of residential units refer to sale and purchase agreements with payment of stamp duty. These statistics do not include sales of units under the Home Ownership Scheme, the Private Sector Participation Scheme and the Tenants Purchase Scheme except those after payment of premium.

Year-on-year Rate of Change in the Number of
Sale and Purchase Agreements

year-on-year rate of change in the number of sale and purchase agreements

Number of Sale and Purchase Agreements of residential and non-residential building units
Year/Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	16,984	14,384	10,993	10,945	10,138	11,876	8,930	6,402	7,369	6,054	3,786	5,437
2009	5,759	5,043	8,062	11,148	13,067	15,747	14,039	13,245	14,437	11,112	11,191	11,112
2010	12,380

Number of Sale and Purchase Agreements of residential building units
and total consideration from January 2009 to January 2010

Year	Month	Range of Consideration ($ million)												Total
		Less than 1		1 to less than 2		2 to less than 3		3 to less than 5		5 to less than 10		10 or over		No.	Consideration ($ million)
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	Consideration ($ million)
2009	1	643	13	1,928	40	995	20	748	15	303	6	258	5	4,875	16,124
	2	650	14	1,842	41	852	19	644	14	326	7	173	4	4,487	13,622
	3	954	13	2,904	41	1,227	17	1,094	15	454	6	469	7	7,102	25,448
	4	1,045	11	3,605	37	1,914	19	2,154	22	720	7	418	4	9,856	31,580
	5	1,085	9	4,702	40	2,378	20	1,938	16	1,099	9	586	5	11,788	39,423
	6	1,197	9	4,636	34	2,472	18	3,342	24	1,477	11	681	5	13,805	49,713
	7	1,067	9	4,467	37	2,317	19	2,338	19	1,199	10	635	5	12,023	43,567
	8	893	8	3,796	34	1,880	17	2,709	24	1,472	13	500	4	11,250	40,987
	9	922	8	4,523	37	2,361	19	2,142	17	986	8	1,351	11	12,285	56,163
	10	755	8	3,721	40	1,849	20	1,573	17	790	8	612	7	9,300	36,334
	11	708	8	3,660	40	1,855	20	1,581	17	814	9	595	6	9,213	38,154
	12	684	8	3,301	36	1,736	19	1,905	21	1,059	12	423	5	9,108	34,725
2010	1	628	6	4,062	38	2,195	21	2,294	22	1,057	10	420	4	10,656	36,154

Note: Figures in percentage for individual items may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

Monthly Statistics in respect of Sale & Purchase Agreements of building units received for registration on regional basis

Month : January 2010

[Table summary]

Item	District	Sale and Purchase Agreements of Building Units
Item	District	No. of Transactions	Consideration (nearest $million)
1.	Hong Kong	2,453	14,006
2.	Kowloon	3,572	13,914
3.	Islands	299	907
4.	North	362	683
5.	Sai Kung	1,157	4,593
6.	Shatin	1,083	3,176
7.	Tai Po	424	991
8.	Tsuen Wan	1,294	3,344
9.	Tuen Mun	858	1,325
10.	Yuen Long	878	1,773
Total		12,380	44,712

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