| Our Duty |
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- To safeguard the evidence used to prove interests in
land and property
- To give public access to information that supports open
markets in property and open access to social and economic
services
- To safeguard individual rights to privacy
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| Our Vision |
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- To be the best in all that we do
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| Our Mission |
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- To ensure secure, customer friendly land registration
and information services
- To develop our human resources, information technology
and service environment so as to ensure improvement in service
quality and value to our customers
- To advocate reform of Hong Kong’s land registration
system through introduction of title registration
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| Our Values |
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- Integrity - to customers, partners and colleagues we observe
the highest ethical standards
- Excellence - we aim to excel in all that we do
- Respect - we show respect and trust to our customers,
partners and colleagues
- Learning - we learn constantly from each other, from our
partners, customers and comparable organisations elsewhere
how to provide better services to the community
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| Our Value
to Hong Kong |
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- Over half of all Hong Kong families own registered property
or are becoming property owners
- Banks and financial institutions loan around HK$1,000
billion against the security of registered land and property
- Over 3 million searches of registered information take
place each year
- 57 Government departments use Land Registry information
for purposes ranging from planning studies and criminal
investigations to guidance on allocating public housing
benefits and social security
- Registered information traces property transactions back
to 1844. Some records have information going back to the
1700s. The registers are a resource for the economic and
social history of Hong Kong
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