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 2020
[ Table summary]| Item | Nature of Deeds | Number of Deeds received for registration | Consideration (nearest $ million) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban | New Territories | Total | Urban | New Territories | Total | ||
| 1. |
Agreements for Sale and
Purchase of Building Units |
1,652 ( 1,894 ) |
2,124 ( 2,291 ) |
3,776 ( 4,185 ) |
15,447 | 13,591 | 29,038 |
| 2. |
Agreements for Sale and Purchase
of Land
|
2 | 171 | 173 | 175 | 614 | 789 |
|
Sub-total (1)+(2)
|
1,654 | 2,295 | 3,949 | 15,622 | 14,205 | 29,827 | |
| 3. |
Assignments of Building Units
|
2,387 ( 2,576 ) |
2,396 ( 2,629 ) |
4,783 ( 5,205 ) |
22,591 | 13,876 | 36,467 |
| 4. |
Assignments of Land
|
4 | 330 | 334 | 384 | 555 | 939 |
|
Sub-total (3)+(4)
|
2,391 | 2,726 | 5,117 | 22,975 | 14,431 | 37,406 | |
| 5. |
Building Mortgages/Building
Legal Charges |
0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 6. |
Other Mortgages/Legal Charges
|
2,838 | 2,799 | 5,637 | - | - | - |
|
Sub-total (5)+(6)
|
2,838 | 2,800 | 5,638 | - | - | - | |
| 7. |
Receipts/Discharges/Releases
|
2,529 | 3,059 | 5,588 | - | - | - |
| 8. |
Leases/Tenancy Agreements
|
158 | 95 | 253 | - | - | - |
| 9. |
Exclusion Orders
|
0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - |
| 10. |
Others
|
3,683 | 3,362 | 7,045 | - | - | - |
| Total | 13,253 | 14,337 | 27,590 | - | - | - | |
Comparison of Monthly Statistics
Month : January 2020
[ Table summary]| Item | 2020 January | 2019 December | 2019 January | January 2020 Increase (+) or Decrease (-) as compared with |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | January 2019 | |||||||
| No. or Consideration | % | No. or Consideration | % | |||||
| 1. |
Agreements for Sale and Purchase
of Building Units
|
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|
(a) No.
|
3,776 | 3,908 | 5,589 | -132 | -3.4 | -1,813 | -32.4 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
29,038 | 35,030 | 71,981 | -5,992 | -17.1 | -42,943 | -59.7 | |
| 2. |
Agreements for Sale and Purchase
of Land
|
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|
(a) No.
|
173 | 184 | 257 | -11 | -6.0 | -84 | -32.7 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
789 | 2,112 | 3,132 | -1,323 | -62.6 | -2,343 | -74.8 | |
|
Sub-total of (1)+(2)
|
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|
(a) No.
|
3,949 | 4,092 | 5,846 | -143 | -3.5 | -1,897 | -32.4 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
29,827 | 37,142 | 75,113 | -7,315 | -19.7 | -45,286 | -60.3 | |
| 3. |
Assignments of Building Units
|
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|
(a) No.
|
4,783 | 5,609 | 7,616 | -826 | -14.7 | -2,833 | -37.2 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
36,467 | 37,981 | 74,212 | -1,514 | -4.0 | -37,745 | -50.9 | |
| 4. |
Assignments of Land
|
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|
(a) No.
|
334 | 352 | 464 | -18 | -5.1 | -130 | -28.0 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
939 | 2,418 | 3,436 | -1,479 | -61.2 | -2,497 | -72.7 | |
|
Sub-total of (3)+(4)
|
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|
(a) No.
|
5,117 | 5,961 | 8,080 | -844 | -14.2 | -2,963 | -36.7 | |
|
(b) Consideration
|
37,406 | 40,399 | 77,648 | -2,993 | -7.4 | -40,242 | -51.8 | |
| 5. |
No. of Building
Mortgages/Building Legal Charges
|
1 | 4 | 3 | -3 | -75.0 | -2 | -66.7 |
| 6. |
No. of Other Mortgages/Legal
Charges
|
5,637 | 7,029 | 9,506 | -1,392 | -19.8 | -3,869 | -40.7 |
|
Sub-total of (5)+(6)
|
5,638 | 7,033 | 9,509 | -1,395 | -19.8 | -3,871 | -40.7 | |
| 7. |
No. of Receipts/
Discharges/Releases
|
5,588 | 6,559 | 8,137 | -971 | -14.8 | -2,549 | -31.3 |
| 8. |
No. of Public Search
|
342,191 | 365,773 | 423,818 | -23,582 | -6.4 | -81,627 | -19.3 |
Number of Sale and Purchase Agreements (ASP) of building units
| Year | 2019 | 2020 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan |
| Number of ASP for all building units | 5,589 | 4,999 | 6,428 | 9,911 | 10,353 | 6,211 | 6,380 | 5,159 | 4,090 | 5,075 | 6,701 | 3,908 | 3,776 |
| Number of ASP for residential building units | 4,543 | 4,089 | 5,231 | 7,822 | 8,208 | 4,627 | 4,805 | 4,084 | 3,447 | 4,001 | 5,756 | 3,184 | 2,762 |
| 12-month moving average for all ASP | 6,463 | 6,259 | 6,260 | 6,357 | 6,571 | 6,317 | 6,144 | 6,016 | 5,957 | 5,932 | 6,161 | 6,234 | 6,083 |
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 |
| 2018 | 7,223 | 7,456 | 6,415 | 8,741 | 7,788 | 9,252 | 8,466 | 6,688 | 4,799 | 5,374 | 3,953 | 3,038 |
| 2019 | 5,589 | 4,999 | 6,428 | 9,911 | 10,353 | 6,211 | 6,380 | 5,159 | 4,090 | 5,075 | 6,701 | 3,908 |
| 2020 | 3,776 | |||||||||||
Number of Sale and Purchase Agreements of residential building units
and total consideration from January 2019 to January 2020
| 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) |
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| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||||
| 2019 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 110 | 2 | 801 | 18 | 1,957 | 43 | 1,599 | 35 | 4,543 | 44,924 |
| 2 | 14 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 92 | 2 | 888 | 22 | 2,433 | 60 | 626 | 15 | 4,089 | 36,079 | |
| 3 | 8 | 0 | 64 | 1 | 147 | 3 | 1,142 | 22 | 2,784 | 53 | 1,086 | 21 | 5,231 | 45,870 | |
| 4 | 24 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 144 | 2 | 1,404 | 18 | 4,548 | 58 | 1,649 | 21 | 7,822 | 70,101 | |
| 5 | 25 | 0 | 87 | 1 | 138 | 2 | 1,413 | 17 | 4,729 | 58 | 1,816 | 22 | 8,208 | 78,447 | |
| 6 | 23 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 120 | 3 | 920 | 20 | 2,474 | 53 | 1,025 | 22 | 4,627 | 45,330 | |
| 7 | 23 | 0 | 89 | 2 | 200 | 4 | 896 | 19 | 2,560 | 53 | 1,037 | 22 | 4,805 | 44,070 | |
| 8 | 19 | 0 | 88 | 2 | 254 | 6 | 720 | 18 | 2,220 | 54 | 783 | 19 | 4,084 | 36,582 | |
| 9 | 12 | 0 | 81 | 2 | 95 | 3 | 684 | 20 | 2,011 | 58 | 564 | 16 | 3,447 | 27,662 | |
| 10 | 19 | 0 | 62 | 2 | 106 | 3 | 677 | 17 | 2,264 | 57 | 873 | 22 | 4,001 | 40,688 | |
| 11 | 17 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 111 | 2 | 1,100 | 19 | 3,531 | 61 | 941 | 16 | 5,756 | 47,779 | |
| 12 | 16 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 77 | 2 | 597 | 19 | 1,755 | 55 | 678 | 21 | 3,184 | 31,263 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 2 | 78 | 3 | 530 | 19 | 1,619 | 59 | 474 | 17 | 2,762 | 24,778 |
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 2020
[ Table summary]| Item | District | Sale and Purchase Agreements of Building Units | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Transactions | Consideration (nearest $million) | ||
| 1. | Hong Kong | 677 | 6,892 |
| 2. | Kowloon | 975 | 8,555 |
| 3. | Islands | 79 | 520 |
| 4. | North | 93 | 497 |
| 5. | Sai Kung | 233 | 1,791 |
| 6. | Shatin | 437 | 3,185 |
| 7. | Tai Po | 197 | 1,280 |
| 8. | Tsuen Wan | 320 | 1,947 |
| 9. | Tuen Mun | 267 | 1,408 |
| 10. | Yuen Long | 498 | 2,963 |
| Total | 3,776 | 29,038 | |
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