Other Housing Statistics

- Number Of Documents Received For

  Registration In The Urban And

  New Territories Land Registers


Number of Documents Received for Registration in the Urban and New Territories Land Registries (1997-2004)

Numbers

Type of land document

1997

1998

1999

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Agreement for sale and purchase of properties
210594
113569
100144
- - - - -
   Agreement for sale and purchase of building units - - 98466 85744 88190 85921 87309 123480
      Residential - - 77087 65340 69667 72974 71576 100630
      Non - Residential - - 21379 20404 18523 12947 15733 22850
   Agreements for sale and purchase of land - - 1678 1396 1419 1128 959 1627
Assignments of properties �@
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   Assignments of building units
220911
134994
140858
152022 144037 119734 110052 135106
   Assignments of land
10959
7350
4448
4006 3564 2980 2433 3247
Mortgages/legal charges �@ �@
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   Building mortgages/building legal charges
75
65
38
85 117 56 103 70
   Other mortgages/legal charges
252324
154228
181144
183307 157064 121791 102210 124183
Receipts/discharges/releases
201651
93015
121176
137656 110009 93048 88312 128762
Leases/tenancy agreements
7907
6921
7194
7047 6948 5959 5565 5888
Exclusion orders
0
0
1
0 0 0 0 0
Others
86145
90480
92876
114512 97779 114048 100198 108432
Total
990566
600622
647879
685775 609127 544665 497141 630795

Notes: Statistics prior to 1991 cover only land documents received for registration in the Urban Land Registry, while those from 1991 onwards cover also land documents received for registration in the eight New Territories Land Registries.

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Source :

Land Registry (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2867 2882), cited in Hong Kong Government Census and Statistics Department (2000), Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics, 2000 Edition. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government Printer, p.143.

Land Registry (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2867 4838), cited in Hong Kong Government Census and Statistics Department (2005), Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics, 2005 Edition. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government Printer, p.187.

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