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Property Alert

Property Alert

Property is valuable!

  • Do you want to stay vigilant of what is happening to your property?
  • Do you want to be alerted when any instruments purporting to sell or mortgage your property without your knowledge have been submitted to the Land Registry for registration?

The Land Registry’s e-Alert Service for property owners will be renamed as Property Alert in January 2019. Being a property owner, do take action to put your mind at ease by subscribing to the service!

Property Alert is a smart tool for every property owner. It enables early detection of any unexpected or suspicious instruments delivered for registration against your property so that you can take appropriate and prompt actions.

In addition to the 24-month subscription period at HK$250, we will introduce a new and more convenient option of one-off subscription period at HK$580. Once subscribed for the one-off subscription period, service renewal is no longer required. We will send you alert notification emails about your property for as long as the ownership of the property remains under you.

To enhance customer convenience, subscription to the service will also be made easier. Besides the existing in-person application at Land Registry offices, we now also accept application by post. With this additional application channel, property owners who are unable to submit the application in person and those owners who are residing/working overseas will find it much more convenient to apply for the service. Property owners can simply download the application form from our website and submit the completed form to the Land Registry either by postal service or in person.

Subscribe to Property Alert! You can save time and money to stay connected to the land register of your valuable property and put your mind at ease.

Integrated Registration Information System (IRIS) Enhancements

With improving customer experience and user-friendliness in mind, we launched the following enhancement to IRIS in October 2018:

  • Add a check box in the transaction list of "Enquire Order Status by Order Creation Date" function of the IRIS Online Services to allow subscribers to choose to view and print the details, including the properties concerned, of a single or multiple transactions simultaneously.

Integrated Registration Information System (IRIS) Enhancements

Annual Validation of Customer Records

As an annual exercise for updating the information in our customer management system to facilitate effective communication with customers, all subscribers of the IRIS Online Services and customers using the deeds lodgement services were invited to provide up-to-date customer data by completing a Customer Data Form in November 2018. Customers may also download the Change of Account Particulars Form to update their records whenever necessary.

Annual Validation of Customer Records

Title Registration

The study on title registration legislations and good practices in some overseas jurisdictions had been completed and the draft report was circulated to members of the Land Titles Ordinance Review Committee (LTORC) for comments in July 2018. A meeting was held with the Law Society of Hong Kong on 27 September 2018 for conducting dummy run of typical transactions under the Land Titles Ordinance (LTO).

In addition, the 7th LTORC meeting and the 13th LTO Steering Committee were held on 23 October 2018 and 26 November 2018 respectively for discussion of the report of the overseas jurisdictions study, the "new land first" proposal, as well as relevant proposed amendments to the LTO.

We will continue to engage stakeholders in order to forge consensus on issues relating to the "new land first" proposal for the early implementation of title registration system in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, we are continuing with the review of the LTO and working on the proposed amendments to the LTO.