
"Last Monday’s blog pondered the activities of a business group called Direct Property Group, which advertises overseas property, but declines interviews because they wish to keep their business model secret. This prompted several reader comments, both on the blog and via email. So I repeated my offer of an interview to managing director Steve Lovell, but he still refused.
He opted to have his say without addressing my questions - to whit, he sent me a statement. He threw down the gauntlet for me to publish it, complete with an unsubtle threat.
Never mind his reticence, in order to be scrupulously fair, because he thinks my blog “was written with a clear element of “journalistic flair”, and, according to him, was not as well researched as it could have been, I will reply in detail to his missive. “I would like to put the record straight, so far as the insinuations in your blog (and those created by your readers responses) are concerned,” he said. Fair enough, here you go.
Not that interesting
“The following facts should dispel any notions of “intrigue” about us. We really are not that interesting,” he says. He states that because they are not estate agents, they don’t need to register under the Estate Agents Ordinance in Hong Kong. I think I covered that point in the blog. “We only actually sell overseas property that we ourselves own, or have secured the right to buy. If the law required us to have a license, we would have one, he says. Like their competitors, they don’t mention precise addresses of listed properties on their websites. “Interested persons can contact us for more details which is standard practice, he states.