For the month of March, 2011

 
 

Wheelock to redevelop 77 Peak Road

77 Peak Road

Wheelock Properties has submitted an application for a minor relaxation of plot-ratio restriction from 0.5 to 0.55 for the proposed redevelopment of a residential property located at 77 Peak Road (also known as Dodwell Mansions). Currently standing on the site is a “Colonial style low-rise luxury building” containing 12 units of size 2,391 sqft or 2,734 sqft.

The increase in plot ratio is purported to be part of an exchange with the Government for giving up a portion of the lot to permit increasing the road width upon redevelopment.

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Billionaire's Shek O Redevelopment

A house and plot of land at 13 Big Wave Bay Road sold in December 2009 to the billionaire founder of a mainland Internet company. The purchase price was a cool $480m for around 2,300sqm of land with an existing 10,000sqft residential dwelling on it. In October, 2006 an agreement for sale and purchase was entered into by George Sze Kwong Chao (趙世光) to purchase the property for $380m, and the transaction completed 6 months later. The capital appreciation on this over the three year holding period was $100 million.

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