Five other Hong Kong stars who, like Joey Yung, bought properties for millions of dollars recently

When it comes to investing, artists are just like most other Hongkongers – they go for property. They even buy homes for their parents, as Wong Cho-lam and Nicholas Tse did; one actor, though, bucked the trend for buying luxury homes

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Houses at 56 Repulse Bay Road, on Hong Kong Island’s upscale South Side, where singer Joey Yung recently bought a property. She isn’t the only Hong Kong star to have splashed out on property recently. Photo: David Wong

Published: 2:40pm, 9 May 2018Updated: 7:40pm, 9 May 2018

Heavy stamp duty and outrageous prices have not put Hong Kong artists off purchasing their dream homes. Hong Kong singer Joey Yung recently bought a house in the city for an estimated HK$200 million (US$25.5 million). Here are five others who splashed out on properties in recent years.

Actor Nick Cheung on the red carpet at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Awards. Photo: Edward Wong

1. Nick Cheung Ka-fai

53-year-old actor Nick Cheung Ka-fai, who won best actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2014 for his titular role in Unbeatable (2013), bought a 3,366 square foot flat for HK$131 million in Grenville House, in the city’s upper middle-class Mid-Levels neighbourhood on Hong Kong Island, in May 2017.

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He thereby became neighbours with a former chief executive (head of the Hong Kong administration), Tung Chee-hwa.

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