Owner of luxury flat seeks eviction and back rent from Rogerio Lam

The owner of a luxury Mid-Levels flat is suing the son of a tycoon for rent and his eviction from the HK$99,000-a-month home.

Kwong Wan Realty, in a Court of First Instance writ, is asking for HK$345,766 in rent and other charges from Rogerio Lam Sou-fung, the son of the late Lam Bing-yam, founder of Hang Seng Bank.

The company said Lam had signed a tenancy agreement on May 31 to rent a 27th-floor flat at Bamboo Grove for two years, for HK$99,000 a month. But he had not paid the rent from August to October, it said.

"In wrongful breach of the agreement, the defendant has failed to pay the rent, the management fees and the rates and other charges in respect of the premises payable thereunder to the plaintiff," Kwong Wan wrote in the court filing.

The company, a subsidiary of the developer Hysan, is also asking for "vacant possession" of the flat.

This is not the only recent legal proceeding involving Lam.