{"id":111213,"date":"2019-09-30T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/can-hong-kong-break-the-stranglehold-of-the-citys-biggest-developers-on-land-reserves\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T05:06:49","slug":"can-hong-kong-break-the-stranglehold-of-the-citys-biggest-developers-on-land-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/can-hong-kong-break-the-stranglehold-of-the-citys-biggest-developers-on-land-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Hong Kong break the stranglehold of the city\u2019s biggest developers on land reserves?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, the third-generation scion of one of Hong Kong\u2019s biggest landowners, met Ricky Yu in 2016, the seed of an unorthodox idea was planted.Yu, founder of the non-profit builder Light Be, was looking for land to build what his six-year-old group calls social housing, including co-tenancy abodes for single mothers with children. Cheng, then 37, was vice-chairman of one of Hong Kong\u2019s largest developers, owning 12 million sq ft of land, not including another 17 million sq ft\u2026
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Can Hong Kong break the stranglehold of the city\u2019s biggest developers on land reserves?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, the third-generation scion of one of Hong Kong\u2019s biggest landowners, met...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-sVL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114055,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/coronavirus-fails-to-stop-hong-kong-developers-as-new-site-in-lohas-park-draws-nine-bids\/","url_meta":{"origin":111213,"position":0},"title":"Coronavirus fails to stop Hong Kong developers as new site in Lohas Park draws nine bids","date":"February 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Not even the coronavirus outbreak is stopping Hong Kong\u2019s biggest developers from bidding for the biggest plot of land within the Lohas Park residential development in New Territories. 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