Spotlight: commercial buildings when the residential density control rules
Commercial buildings illegal when the residential rent, roar office workers. But there is no shortage of “office space” in the name of the rental, the unit equipment is no different with the residential, the rent is cheaper than the same district housing The There are real estate brokers claiming that commercial buildings are rented for residential for many years, and that the Government departments have rarely patroled for many years. Although the Buildings Department has confirmed that the building plans are for office use only, some people are staying at night. It is estimated that there are nearly 10,000 similar units. Members of the legal profession have indicated that if the owners are in breach of the approved construction plans and the purposes specified in the occupation permits, the most serious cases can be recovered by the Buildings Department. Members of the Legislative Council urge the Government to Pipe, long-term should increase the supply of housing.
And about $ 20 to $ 30 for Grade B and Grade C commercial buildings in Central and Sheung Wan.
Main office workers said someone lived nearly twenty years
“Office use, there is decoration.” B & B site of a Central commercial rental advertising, the unit description is similar to the general office, but the picture there are bed, wardrobe and refrigerators and other residential furniture. Last month, the reporter pretending tenants to meet a female real estate brokerage building, the unit is located in Central Anhe in a 40-year-old commercial buildings, about four hundred square feet of units have separate toilet and open kitchen, Brokers do not deny that most of the flats are “commercial, but live for residential use”, and that the government departments have been very few inspections. “Basically, the owners are all living in the same way. live.”
She pointed to the refurbishment of the commercial buildings, with at least three units for residential rental, including the middle unit and the roof of the top units, the main office workers and foreigners, the rent of about 14,000 yuan. She also revealed that the Philippine tenants in the building shared units for the warehouse, and lived nearly two decades.
Reporters also found that the commercial buildings at night many units brightly lit, there are expatriates stay overnight, the unit has a table and other furniture, but also spread the food flavor, but whether it is on the site, she was exceptionally avoided, Close the gates. But to check the building into the occupation paper and the deed of mutual covenant, one to five floor units only for office and non-residential use.
There are some residential buildings in Sheung Wan which are converted into similar commercial buildings. Among them, there are units for residential use in an eight-storey commercial building in Yongle Street, Sheung Wan. There are about 600 square feet of flat and low-rise units with independent toilets and open Type kitchen, the monthly lease of about twenty thousand five thousand dollars. “The real estate agent said that the unit has been leased for residential, the kitchen has been set up induction cooker, the platform also has a former tenant left the barbecue pits, but the price of the barbecue, Because the commercial building, the evening will be gate; unit owners are also more interested in residential rental. However, the reporter checked the building into the occupation paper, set out one to seven floor each floor four office units, only for non-residential use.
There are real estate industry estimates that there are nearly 10,000 commercial units in Hong Kong have been converted into residential use, for rent or sale, part of the change into a room rental.
Buildings: Each floor is office use
Huang Hongcheng, chief executive officer of the United Labor and Commerce, said that there were about 20 to 30 yuan for the construction of Grade 2 and Grade C commercial buildings, about $ 12,000 to $ 18,000 for the 400 to 600 square feet of commercial buildings, And the same area of 400 square feet of residential average monthly rent of about 24,000 yuan, do not rule out the owners to commercial rental for residential use, to earn higher rent returns. He also refers to the commercial and commercial management model than the building strict, and located in convenient transportation, increase the unit attraction.
A spokesman for the Buildings Department confirmed that under the approved building plans, the above two commercial buildings were used for office use except for underground use. The legal profession, Mr Wong Kwok-tung, said that if the owner had made the application in accordance with the purposes specified in the occupation permit or approved the building plans and the application had not been made, the Buildings Department could jointly prosecute the Government departments such as the Lands Department and the offenders for imprisonment and fines, The most serious and more able to recover the relevant units.
The broker said that if the report was implicated in a wide range
Reporters and post-indicating that the identity of the real estate broker to inquire about, she admitted that the unit can buy a rent, but stressed that the owners put the disk, she is only agents, but also refers to the building has a number of similar put, if someone reports, fear implicated wide.