SOLID FIRST HALF

Luxury property sales reached the second-highest level on record, at HK$90 billion, during the first half of this year, according to Centaline Properties, even though the number of deals fell 21 per cent to 3,181 for properties worth more than HK$12 million. The most actively traded developments were Henderson Land's The Beverly Hills at Tai Po (164 transactions), PCPD's Bel-Air at Island South (116) and Sun Hung Kai Properties' Aria in Kowloon (97).