Concentrates on those provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 which directly affect the property manager in general practice. Discusses the background to the Act, Part I: Integrated Pollution Control, Part II: Waste disposal on land, Part III: Statutory nuisance, and further...

Examines the environmental risks involved in managing and investing in commercial/industrial property in the UK. Looks at some of the questions which prudent landlords should now be asking of their tenants in order to assess these risks, and concludes that an environmental risk rating system...

The extension of compulsory, competitive tendering to professional services, against a background of local government reform is generating an atmosphere of organizational and operational uncertainty. Examines some of the issues arising out of the twin processes and highlights some of the areas...

Examines the new system for rate valuation and procedure for challenging rateable values, including a resume of aspects that remain unchanged. Considers the particular differences of practical concern to be: the rateable values themselves, the phasing in of changes, the procedure for challenging...

Privatisation of services from the public sector is topical currently mainly because of the potential savings and efficiency to be gained. In the aspect of property management, the Hong Kong Housing Authority owns more than 600,000 units of public housing flats and the requirement for good and...

Extending the ground works of Ho (1993), Baldwin (1994), Walters and Hastings (1998a, 1998b) on property management in Hong Kong, this short paper documents the context[1] of research on illegal structures, explains the incentive for building illegal structures on government land and private...

This paper uses a probit model to analyse 100 observations in terms of three hypotheses about the formation of owners’ corporations in high‐density private housing estates in Hong Kong within the context of Mancur Olson’s group theory. The findings do not reject the theory, revealing that...