Landed Hong Kong - Paperback

by Christopher Dillon (Author)

Landed Hong Kong gives you the key facts and insights you need to successfully buy property in Hong Kong. Landed Hong Kong gives you the key local knowledge you need to buy a Hong Kong home.In Landed Hong Kong, you'll find:

• Step-by-step explanations of how to buy Hong Kong homes-from a high-rise apartment in West Kowloon to a village house on Lantau Island
• Extensive checklists for buying Hong Kong property, including pre-owned homes and off the plan developments
• Background on the New Territories: the Heung Yee Kuk, the Small House Policy, indigenous villages, "ding" rights, and laws and customs
• Detailed case studies about buying and renovating a Hong Kong apartment, a small office and a flatted factory
• Financial Information, including mortgage lenders, Hong Kong Monetary Authority regulations, Hong Kong stamp duty and buyer's stamp duty
• Explanations of Hong Kong property law, including zoning, government land leases, and the roles of the owners' corporation and management committee
• A section on renovating Hong Kong property, including building permit requirements, local quirks, buying materials and hiring professional help
• Demographic data that show how an aging population in Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese immigration shape the property market
• Background on asbestos, expropriation, statutory orders, subsidence, unauthorized building works and other risks that affect Hong Kong real estate
• Essential information about Hong Kong's history, political and legal systems, government departments and long-term development plans
• Descriptions of Hong Kong neighborhoods-from laid-back Lamma Island and green Pokfulam to exclusive Kowloon Tong-with typical home prices
• Information about how cemeteries, feng shui, lucky numbers, murders and suicides affect the value of Hong Kong real estate
• Much more

Author Biography

Christopher Dillon is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. In 2002, he bought and renovated a floor in an office building in Hong Kong's Central business district. Since then, he has purchased and refurbished a luxury apartment on the west side of Hong Kong Island and transformed a derelict steam laundry into a multimedia studio. He began investing in Tokyo real estate in 2010. That experience inspired four books: Landed: The expatriate's guide to buying and renovating property in Hong Kong (2008); Landed: The guide to buying property in Japan (2010); Landed China (2013); and Landed Global (2014), which includes case studies and data from more than 110 countries and territories. In 2015, he released an expanded and revised edition of the Hong Kong book under the title Landed Hong Kong. A native of Canada, Chris Dillon lived in Tokyo from 1989 to 1992. He appears regularly in the international media, as both a contributor and a guest.