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Rent assessment methodology
  • 1 Mar 2004

    KAN LAI BING v. FINE CONNECTION LTD

    Citation
    KAN LAI BING v. FINE CONNECTION LTD
    Court
    Lands Tribunal
    Case number
    LDNT155/2003

    The Tribunal held that averaging unit rents across comparables is not an appropriate substitute for market‑based adjustments informed by how landlords and tenants value differences; it rejected the respondent expert's unexplained weighting approach as duplicative, accepted certain adjustments (time by Rental Indices, traffic flow, privacy, limited size discount, condition and appliances where evidenced), rejected unjustified adjustments (renewal v newletting without comparative condition evidence, excessive view and floor level adjustments), adopted an adjusted average unit rate of HKD163.6/s…