URA

26 Mar 2013

A turning point could come for the property market in 2015 with expectations of a significant increase in new housing supply at that time. That will no doubt be good news for first-time homebuyers...

5:26AM

Dying Kwun Tong town centre awaits revival

16 Mar 2013

Yue Man Square, which was once the bustling heart of Kwun Tong, lies half empty after the original businesses moved out and the Urban Renewal Authority was unable to re-let their units temporarily...

5:13AM

Kwun Tong alley shopkeepers stand their ground against URA

16 Mar 2013

Three months before a deadline to move out, 28 small businesses in a Kwun Tong alley stand in the way of the Urban Renewal Authority's biggest project ever. The businesses, in their makeshift...

6:53AM

Owner of collapsed To Kwa Wan block 'won't get URA payout'

12 Jan 2013

The owner of a To Kwa Wan tenement building that collapsed in 2010, killing four people, has failed to get any compensation from the Urban Renewal Authority over redevelopment of the area, it...

3:12AM

URA may change consensus threshold after single holdout threatens project

22 Dec 2012

The Urban Renewal Authority will review the threshold set for demand-led redevelopment projects after a pilot project in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, faced being derailed by an owner refusing to sell...

4:11AM

City Digest, October 30, 2012

30 Oct 2012

C Y moves in after HK$4.9m renovation

2:51AM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Smaller property players call for sale of carved-up sites

With half of the city's new flats supplied by a few major developers, small to medium-sized property companies want more small plots auctioned off to help them compete against their bigger rivals...

1:54AM

URA seals deal with flat owners to redevelop Sham Shui Po building

The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) has sealed a deal with homeowners in a dilapidated block of flats to redevelop the building, in what's being called a historic breakthrough.

2:40AM

One of URA's priorities is helping disadvantaged residents

It is simply inaccurate and grossly unfair of T. Farnworth ('HK-style urban renewal robs poor residents', April 7) to describe the Urban Renewal Authority's compensation policy as akin to robbing...

6:46AM

URA acquires 66pc of Kwun Tong properties

The Urban Renewal Authority had acquired 1,088 property interests, or about 66 per cent, for its Kwun Tong Town Centre project when the 90-day offer period ended yesterday.

4:52AM

Firms in Mong Kok's historic shophouses may be allowed to stay after renovations

Stores that sell building supplies may be able to return to their historic Mong Kok shophouses after preservation work has been completed, the Urban Renewal Authority says.

1:46AM

Renovation faces URA scrap heap

A tenement building in Central that featured in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution is likely to be demolished by the Urban Renewal Authority, despite millions being spent to renovate it.

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