Category: Hong Kong property
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Simon Jenkins, writing about the fire at Grenfell Tower, apparently thinks Hong Kong is “squalid”: The lesson from Grenfell is simple: stop building residential towers | Simon Jenkins There is no need to build high at all. The developers’ cry, that cities must build high to “survive”, is self-serving rubbish, the more absurd when their…
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How charmingly Viennese:
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Hong Kong's a strange place, and never more so than in the weird world of apartments. Developers are allowed to advertise the gross floorspace of an apartment, which includes balconies, bay windows, and (most outrageously) your share of the the common areas, such as the clubhouse, gardens, lift lobbies, etc. As far as I know,…
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From the people who brought you Palazzo in Fo Tan (Sino Land and the MTR) comes another hilariously overblown marketing campaign for Lake Silver in Ma On Shan. The TV adverts have Palazzo-style opera-lite music and computer graphics, and on Wednesday the SCMP came adorned in a glossy full colour advertising wraparound that even referenced…
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A reader has sent me a photograph (left) of my favourite development. You can see Fo Tan Industrial Estate to the left (sadly obscured by shruberry in the official artist's impression). Then there is KCR House, the black building in the foreground that is dwarfed by The Palazzo, which just disappeared from the artist's impression.…
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Sadly, the weekend's editions of the SCMP contained not a single advert for The Palazzo. What it did contain was a photograph of the equestrian facilities, the racecourse and the site of The Palazzo, courtesy of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. This shows quite clearly the position of The Palazzo relative to the racecourse and…
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Another week, another advert for The Palazzo in the SCMP on Sunday. This time the focus is back on the racecourse, with the claim that the "apartments command panoramic views including the breathtaking view of the International Sha Tin Racecourse." Well, I daresay that some apartments do have a view of the racecourse, but it…
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Today’s SCMP comes with a giant poster of The Palazzo, complete with the ridiculous claim that it benefits from the superb facilities of the Olympic Equestrian Arena. That’s the temporary arena that the developers portray as a small rugby league stadium (see right), and which will be demolished before anyone moves into The Palazzo. Meanwhile,…
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Hong Kong property developers don’t just tell little white lies, oh no. The Palazzo is a new development in the New Territories. As is apparently compulsory these days it has a funny foreign name (French and Italian being favourites) and an auspicious Chinese name (御龍山 – which is something to do with an imperial dragon…
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My post about the effects of the government’s land policy prompted a lively debate over at the Gweilo Diaries [it was a blog run by someone calling himself “Conrad”] Predictably, it has caused outrage from at least one property owner, who assumed that (i) I don’t own property and (ii) that I was advocating that…
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