It could take many years, completely up to the owners, not the Govt. departments.
There's a construction site, new village house, just a few feet away from my home office and kitchen windows, the workers able to look into our place for up to 6 days a week.
Second time this has happened to us in the last few years. Not much inconvenience and not much noise and it's quite interesting to see the details of the construction up so close. The speed of building a single new house seems to have slowed from a few months to several years, due to lack of qualified workers who seem to work a few days each time in several different locations.
This is #4 of 10 village houses being built within a few dozen metres of our home in the last 2 and the next few years. While up to half the flats/houses around here are empty and have been empty for years, including newly built houses.
It can take a long time to get the occupation licenses and find tenants to pay the still-increasing rents. Many landlords seem to be willing to wait up to years to find tenants willing to pay their wanted rents, vastly over HK-wide market price, not just in Pak Kok, but also in the Greater YSW Area.
Just look at the former Spicy Island/Mr. Kebab building on its prime spot on YSW Main Street. Each time I hear the asked-for rent it's been increased since the last time, currently over HK$50K? Almost no new business in YSW could survive such a rent, so it's been finished and empty for several years. But the landlord is so rich already, doesn't seem to care or hurry at all to find a tenant for his prime, newly-built property?
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