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Construction company and property developer K Wah
International Holdings said it had sold about one-third of The Palace, its
94-home complex on Broadcast Drive.
The flats in Kowloon Tong were sold at an average price of
HK$7,000 per square foot.
The sales generated about HK$300 million in revenue.
K Wah Real Estates senior property manager Wilson Chan
said sales of top-floor homes achieved a price of more than HK$8,000 psf.
The company also reported strong demand for its La Costa
project in Ma On Shan.
Homes at La Costa were offered for sale beginning last
November.
The company expects to reap revenues of HK$900 million and
HK$1.4 billion respectively from the sale of the two projects that have a
total of almost 700 homes.
- Dennis Eng Hong
Kong Standard
2 January 2003
K Wah International (Holdings) will release for sale its
luxury residential project The Palace in Kowloon Tong after Lunar New Year
and expects to generate more than HK$1 billion.
K Wah Real Estate's deputy general manager of sales,
Czarina Man, said: "The Palace will be the most expensive apartment in
the Kowloon district . . units with sea views could be sold at more than
HK$10,000 per square foot."
James Mong, K Wah Real Estate senior project manager, said
the construction cost of The Palace was more than HK$2,000 per square foot -
40 per cent higher than the average cost of luxury residential developments.
The project would provide a saleable area of about 150,000
square feet, with 94 units of about 2,300 sq ft, and be finished by the end
of this year, Ms Man said.
A consent for pre-sale of unfinished units had been
issued.
Grand Excelsior, another luxury apartment developed by the
company in the same district, has also received pre-sale consent.
Ms Man said the group might reserve it for long-term
investment and release it for rent as serviced apartments by May.
She said the target rental was about HK$40 per square
foot. Rental properties in Kowloon Tong average between HK$25 and HK$30 per
square foot.
The project would provide 108 units, ranging from about
900 sq ft to 1,300 sq ft, and is expected to be completed early next year.
The group would also release a sea-view residential
project in Ma On Shan for sale by the end of this year, Ms Man said. It is
close to the future Ma On Shan Rail Station, and would provide 600 units
ranging from 600 sq ft to 1,000 sq ft.
Mr Mong said the company would make known its opposition
to the 15.2-hectare Sham Tseng reclamation proposed by the Government, since
it could affect the view of its residential development between Sea Crest
Villa phase one and phase two.
The project would provide 264 units at 600 sq ft to 800 sq
ft, and be finished in 2004. - by Sophia Wong
South
China Morning Post 7 February 2002
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