4/8/2017-5

The space is $ 4,000 per month

Hong Kong people are making property difficult and their living space is getting smaller and smaller. The recent space capsule has risen in Hong Kong and Kowloon. It is estimated that there are over 100 people in the territory. The owners of the space shelters are targeting remote workers. Only single-bed size space Cabin, part of the advertised a “home feeling”, the monthly rent of up to 4 thousand dollars, feet rented over the Peak luxury.

In fact, these capsule units are involved in various types of offenses. Barristers are of the view that the tenant may not be protected once the tenant has disputed with the owner (see another article – the reporter has hit four capsule units).

Hong Kong and Kowloon more than one hundred 18 to 24 feet

Recently, there are at least 10 space units on a number of rental sites, some of which have been claimed to operate in different areas. There are also spaces in Airbnb, with at least 100 space beds in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

There are only one single bed size of about 18 to 24 feet in the space capsule, ranging from $ 2,000 to $ 4,000 per month and an average of $ 100. According to real estate transaction data show, located in the Peak Baijia Road on the 2nd of the mansion, earlier this year, more than 3,000 feet of independent housing to 280,000 yuan leased out of about 91 yuan, the size of the space capsule is more expensive.

Reporters to tenants, visited a number of different areas of the capsule unit, which in Changsha Bay, about 1,000 feet of a flat floor unit, was 16 into the capsule, and another 2 rooms, each with two plates Bed, which provides a total of 20 beds, each month rent 2,600 yuan.

The other in the Crown House unit has 16 capsule space, about 3 by 6 feet of the standard month monthly rent of 2,600 yuan, about 4 by 6 feet of luxury cabin price of 3,600 yuan, if the lease is less than 3 months, the monthly Need to pay 300 yuan, that is the most expensive 3,900 yuan.

Located in Mong Kok, a commercial building units, the owners placed 10 capsule, each month rent 2,200 yuan, plus monthly water and electricity costs 100 yuan. The door is in the form of a curtain, without a door lock, and the tenant shares a toilet, which provides a microwave oven, a refrigerator and a washing machine to the tenant.

Aimed at remote office workers involved in illegal

Hong Kong Island also has a rental space unit, Causeway Bay, a Tangli unit, there are six capsule, the monthly rent of 3,500 yuan. The person in charge said the main short space for tourists to the space, the current three tenants are using the MacBook, the reporter do not have to worry about being stolen: “Here is half roommate, half-dormitory, a house feel … … Sham Shui Po Those are poor Live, our business model is different … … “He also refers to the Kennedy Town also has a business space, but has been rented, many tenants because they live too far, only in the urban areas to rent space, to facilitate rework.

The Chairman of the Legislative Council Panel on Housing, Mr Matthew Mak, said that in the past, there were mostly substandard housing at the grassroots level. At present, even the sandwich class and professionals would have to live in housing and housing to show that the housing problem in Hong Kong plagued each class. Should be part of the urban land to build public housing.