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Traditional Chinese | 夾心階層住屋計劃 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 夹心阶层住屋计划 | ||||||||||||
Cantonese Yale | Gaap sām gāai chàhng jyuh ūk gai waahk | ||||||||||||
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The Sandwich Class Housing Scheme was a scheme from the Hong Kong Housing Society offering apartments to middle-income families,i.e. sandwich class,at concessionary prices during the 1990s in Hong Kong. The purchases were subject to a five-year resale restriction. The first development,Tivoli Garden, [1] was completed in 1995,and was followed by 12 other developments. In total,more than 12,000 units were offered. [2]
Unlike Home Ownership Scheme and Flat-for-Sale Scheme,the owners under Sandwich Class Housing Scheme must pay a land premium before they can sell their flats in the free second-hand property market. [3]
The housing estates built under the scheme were: [2] (number of apartments and year of completion into brackets)
Three developments were converted into private properties for sale at full market values: [2]
Land reallocated to Housing Authority:
Demand for Sandwich Class Housing apartments was generally high. For example,in 1996,the Hong Kong Housing Society received 6,520 applications for the sale of a batch of 1,696 units in Radiant Towers and Marina Habitat. This level of applications was a 40% increase in comparison to those for Park Belvedere and Tivoli Gardens,in 1995 and 1994 respectively. [7]
In the case of several projects,following a Government policy to suspend the sale of the subsidized flats in September 2001,not all units were sold under the initial Sandwich Class Housing Scheme. These projects include:Marina Habitat,The Pinnacle,Highland Park and Cascades. [4]
All units of Mountain Shore were initially sold within 9 hours in April 2002 at an average price of HK$2,900 per sq. ft. [8]
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