Residence Bel-Air is quickly becoming something of a Melrose Place, with throngs of Canto-pop stars and showbiz royalty lining up to look at the Cyberport site in Pokfulam.
Wendy Gan, sales and marketing director at developer PCCW Infrastructure, said she was not at liberty to say who had bought a flat.
But she had no problems reeling off a list of celebrities who have shown interest - including Andy Lau Tak-wah (left), Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi and Louis Koo Tin-lok (pictured together), one of the Twins, three members of Taiwanese boy band F4 and Nat Chan Pak-cheung. She also reveals that '25 per cent of the purchasers hold foreign passports - and the majority of the mainland buyers are developers themselves - so they have good taste'.
PCCW has sold out the first development, and 80 per cent of the second, totalling about 1,100 units since February. A two to four-bedroom, 3,000-sq-ft-plus apartment goes for about $8 million. A house, from 3,700 to 6,000 sq ft, will likely go for 10 times that, or more.
Those mega-homes do not go on sale until the end of 2004, so we will have to wait to see who will be crowned Hong Kong's prince (or princess) of Bel-Air. And let's not forget that Mr PCCW himself, Richard Li Tzar-kai (right), has yet to move into his squillion-dollar mansion in Shek O.