Sun Hung Kai Properties

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ICC

The International Commerce Centre (ICC) in West Kowloon is the tallest building in Hong Kong, standing at 490m with 118 storeys. The development was also chosen as one of the world's top 125 most important works of architecture by Architectural Record in commemoration of the magazine's 125th anniversary. [37]

The tower opened in 2011. While most of the building is leased out as office spaces – ICC provides 2.5 million square feet of office space – the building also houses the Sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck on the 100th floor as well as restaurants on the 101st floor, with the former providing a 360-degree view over the Victoria Harbour at 393 metres above the sea level. The Ritz-Carlton hotel occupies the building's 102nd to 118th floor. The world's highest swimming pool is located on the top floor as part of the hotel. [38]

The building also has LED lights on its facades for a light show, which has set a Guinness World Record for the "largest light and sound show on a single building". The show occurs twice a night, and can be viewed along both sides of the Victoria Harbour. [39]

The SHKP Vertical Run for Charity has been an annual event hosted by SHKP at ICC since 2012. [40]

IFC

The International Finance Centre is an integrated commercial development, which includes the currently second tallest building in Hong Kong, only next to ICC. [41] Situated above the Hong Kong MTR station, the project was developed and owned by IFC Development, a consortium with SHKP as one of the members. The IFC project was completed in September 2006, providing a gross floor area of over 4 million square feet in total. It consists of two office towers – One IFC and Two IFC – the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, and the IFC mall. [42] Notable occupants of the development include the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which purchased 14 floors in Two IFC in 2001.

The ifc mall in the IFC development has 4 floors of luxury retail shops and restaurants. It is also where Hong Kong's first Apple retail store is located.

Millennium City

Millennium City is a multi-tower development project built along the Kwun Tong Road. By 2016, Phases 1–3, 5 and 6 have been completed.

Millennium City 1, the first to be completed and the largest of the Millennium City cluster, comprises a twin pair of 30-storey towers. The two towers combined provide a total of 1,230,000 square feet of commercial space. [43]

New Town Plaza

New Town Plaza is an SHKP development located in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. The development project was completed in three phases (Phase 1: 9-storey shopping mall; Phase 2: Royal Park Hotel; Phase 3: private housing and a 3-storey shopping mall). New Town Plaza was the largest development of its kind in New Territories at its time of completion in the 1980s. [44]

Royal Park Hotel is connected to the metro station and New Town Plaza mall via a covered walkway and is close to local attractions such as Che Kung Temple, Sha Tin Racecourse and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. Royal Park Hotel hosted Olympians competing in equestrian programmes during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. [45]

apm

Opened in March 2005, apm is one of the largest shopping malls targeted at a younger generation of consumers. [46] The name APM is an amalgamation of AM and PM, reflecting how the shops in the mall operate with extended hours, allowing consumers to shop even at hours when most others shops are closed. APM has a lot of retail shops, restaurants and entertainment options, most of the open at least until midnight. [47]

In tune with the theme of being young and trendy, APM houses retail brands that are typically tailored for a younger audience. A cinema, game zone and a karaoke bar are some of the other amenities that visitors can find in the mall. [48]

Airport Freight Forwarding Centre

Transitional housing project - United Court

SHKP announced that it will lease three plots of land to non-governmental organizations for 8 years for a nominal sum of HK$1. The donation will yield around 2,000 social housing units for low-income families waiting for public housing. The company will team up with the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council for the biggest project called United Court. When completed in 2022, United Court would provide homes for 1,600 families and ultimately benefit 5,000 families. [49] [50]

Other businesses

The company also has complimentary operations in the following property-related fields:

It was once reported in a local newspaper that the company and Cheung Kong (Holdings) are together increasingly dominant in the development of new private homes, accounting for 70% of the market in 2010, up from around half of that in 2003. This concentration, with much of the rest of the market occupied by other very large firms, is attributed to the government's policy of auctioning land inexpensively large blocks, squeezing out small and mid-sized firms, according to the Consumer Council. [51]

Nevertheless, clarification was later made in the letters to editors column in the same newspaper that Sun Hung Kai Properties' overall share of primary residential sales in terms of attributable value from January to July 2010 has been approximately 20% – a figure that has been largely stable over the last few years. [52]

Construction and project management

The subsidiary of SHKP, Sanfield (Management) Limited is the major construction project management company for the corporation's real estate development. [53] Established in 1974, [54] the company headquarter is located at Sun Hung Kai Centre. The company mainly provides construction service to SHKP to build private residential buildings, commercial office towers and comprehensive development. [55] In 2020, it had about 3000 employees.

Sanfield provides a wide range of related services to SHKP and third parties, including landscaping, provision of electrical- and fire-prevention systems as well as leasing of construction plant and machinery. Through an associate and its wholly owned subsidiaries, the company also supplies ready-mix concrete and precast concrete components to SHKP and external parties. [56] [57] The company is also an accredited corporation for provide construction safety training and engineering training by Hong Kong Labour Department and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. [58] [59]

Its major projects include:

International Commerce Centre under construction in 2005 International Commerce Centre 200504.jpg
International Commerce Centre under construction in 2005
International Commerce Centre, tallest building in Hong Kong since 2010 International Commerce Centre 200911.jpg
International Commerce Centre, tallest building in Hong Kong since 2010

Property management

Hong Yip Service Company Limited and Kai Shing Management Services Limited are two of the main property management firms own by SHKP based in Hong Kong. [68]

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Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
Company type Public
ISIN HK0016000132
Industry Real estate
PredecessorSun Hung Kai Enterprises
Founded
  • 1963;62 years ago (1963) in Hong Kong (as SHK Enterprises)
  • 1972;53 years ago (1972) in Hong Kong (as SHK Properties) [1]
Founder
Headquarters Sun Hung Kai Centre, ,
Key people
Raymond Kwok, Chairman and Managing Director
ProductsProperty development, property investment, property management, hotels, telecommunications, information technology and infrastructure
RevenueIncrease2.svgHK$85.26 billion (2021)
Increase2.svgHK$36.67 billion (2021)
Increase2.svgHK$27.44 billion (2021)
Total assets Decrease2.svgHK$796.42 billion (2021)
Total equity Increase2.svgHK$599.63 billion (2021)
Number of employees
About 38,000
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 新鴻基地產發展有限公司
Simplified Chinese 新鸿基地产发展有限公司
Literal meaningSun Hung Kai real estate development limited company
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Xīnhóngjī Dìchǎn Fāzhǎn Yǒuxiàngōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping san1 hung4 gei1 dei6 caan2 faat3 zin2 jau5 haan6 gung1 si1