Purpose – Hong Kong has undergone a rapid transformation from a small fishing village to one of Asia's top commercial cities. With the booming economic development that it has undergone, heritage has been criticised as largely neglected. To respond to this criticism proactively, the local...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the economic forces influencing the outsourcing process of property management services, and investigate how these forces should be applied in order to maximize the productive efficiency and performance quality, thus ensuring optimal use of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the long‐run relation and short‐run dynamic correlations between consumption expenditure and household wealth, namely housing wealth and stock wealth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopts aggregate time‐series data over the...

Purpose – Property defects and building safety have been major concerns for many years in Hong Kong. The local government intends to launch a Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS) for owners of aged buildings; and instigate necessary defect rectification to enhance building and public...

Purpose – Illegal changes of use in aged industrial and residential buildings is now a prevalent problem in Hong Kong. This research aims to develop a strategy for an effective and efficient control of illegal land use in a highly dense environment, with high rise buildings in multiple...

Describes research into the present position, involved parties and future outlook for property management in Hong Kong. The practice of property management follows traditional styles that can be observed in other developed countries. The property management industry represents a very small, but...

In common with many other cities in the world, Hong Kong has a large number of older and less well‐maintained buildings which, for predominantly economic reasons, are still highly utilised by a variety of mixed and non‐compatible uses. In these circumstances, a comprehensive approach to...

Identifies and discusses the problems involved in maintaining Hong Kong′s older buildings: deficiencies in existing legislation, organizational difficulties, lack of public awareness, and manpower shortages. Concludes that public education about maintenance is the best long‐term solution,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on and describe the use of MediaWiki and Google Docs at undergraduate level as online collaboration tools for co‐constructing knowledge in group project work. Design/methodology/approach – Participants included 22 undergraduate students from...

Investigates whether there is any room for church advertising in Hong Kong. The research was a cross‐sectional survey and questionnaires were used as the instrument to collect the required data. The results clearly demonstrated that church advertising should be further developed. But, the...