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Mid-Levels apartment shatters record for Asia’s most expensive flat ... at HK$594 million, that’s HK$100,000 per square foot
Hong Kong government platform confirms sale in affluent Mid-Levels breaks record set in June
A general view of the luxury residential blck in Conduit Raod. Exterior of a luxury residential block (centre) at 39 Conduit Road, Mid-levels, developed by Henderson Land. For story about the cancellation of 20 transactions six months after the developer trumpeted the sale of its 24 flats last October, saying that it had fetched prices of up to a world-record HK$88,000 a square foot. 05JUL10
A luxury duplex apartment in Hong Kong’s affluent Mid-Levels area was sold for more than HK$100,000 per square foot in a deal that made it the most expensive flat in Asia, a government website said.
The 5,732 sq ft duplex flat at Unit A on the 46th floor at Henderson Land Development’s 39 Conduit Road, comprised of four bedrooms, has been sold for HK$594.76 million or HK$103,761 per square foot, according to a Hong Kong government web site called Sales of First- Hand Residential Properties Electronic Platform which tracks the sale of new flats.
The confirmation was posted on December 24. The duplex comes with a 1,754 sq ft roof top.
The deal eclipses Opus Hong Kong as the costliest flat in Asia.
The listed price for the duplex was HK$646.48 million.
That breaks the previous record for price per square foot set in June when a buyer paid HK$95,971 per square foot for a HK$487 million home on the ground and first floors of Swire Pacific Opus Hong Kong at 53 Stubbs Road. The sale in Opus includes two car parking spaces.
The sale comes in the wake of housing market sentiment that plunged to a new low after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points almost two weeks ago.
Panicky home owners in the secondary market have cut prices by more than HK$1 million, while developers received a tepid response to a number of their project launches.
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Last Tuesday, Sino Land sold 27 units or 28 per cent of the first batch of 96 units at the Mediterranean in Sai Kung.
The number of transactions for luxury homes at 35 housing estates monitored by Ricacorp Properties dropped 25 per cent to 39 deals in November, from 52 in October.
“It has fallen to below 100 deals for four consecutive months and it is also a drop to an 11-year low,” said Eric Cheung, a director at Ricacorp.
Meanwhile, the Lands Department awarded a commercial site in Yuen Long to Sino Land for HK$1.69 billion, or at a cost of HK$3,396 per square foot.Another residential site in So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun sold to Conventional Wisdom for HK$1.05 billion, or HK$4,008 per square foot.