Hong Kong Housing Authority and Housing Department

• The following categories of persons may apply to purchase a flat in the HOS Secondary Market:
  
  

  1.	Households of Public Rental Housing (PRH) units under the HA (tenants under conditional tenancies or monthly licensees of HA Transitional Rental Housing units or fixed-term licensees are not allowed to submit application);
  2.	Households of Group A Rental Estates/ Elderly Persons Flats (Rental Estates) under the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) (households of Group B Rental Estates or Dedicated Rehousing Estates, monthly licensees of HKHS Transitional Rental Housing units or fixed-term licensees are not allowed to submit application);
  3.	Authorised residents of Interim Housing (IH) managed by the HA;
  4.	Holders of a valid Green Form Certificate (GFC) applicable to Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) Secondary Market Scheme issued by the HA/ Urban Renewal Authority (URA); and
  5.	Recipients of Rent Allowance for the Elderly Scheme (RAES) administered by the HA.

• Single persons as well as families are eligible to apply;
• Applicants must be at least 18 years old;
• For families, the applicant and the family members must be of kin relationship;
• If the applicant and/or family member(s) listed in the application form is/are married, his/her/their spouse(s) must be included in the same application form (except for the divorcee or those do not have the right to land in Hong Kong or deceased). For spouses do not have the right to land in Hong Kong, relevant undertaking should be completed and copies of certificate of marriage, identity document issued in the place of residence should be provided as the supporting documents; the divorcee must provide copy of the certificate of making Decree Nisi Absolute (Divorce) (e.g. Form 6 or Form 7B), otherwise their spouses must be included in the same application form. Failure to do so may render the HA to cancel the applications concerned.

Within two years after the date of execution of the Deed of Assignment for the purchase of a flat under paragraph 1, the crucial members of 2-person families are not eligible to apply (unless they get married or are permitted to receive the housing benefits provided by their employers). Other family members will not be bound by this restriction provided that they meet the eligibility criteria. A crucial member is a member, other than the owner, listed in an application to fulfill the eligibility criteria of the minimum number of two persons for family applicants.

Member of the Civil Servants’ Co-operative Building Society or any housing scheme of a similar nature or a lessee under any Government Built Housing Scheme (PRH tenants are exempted from this requirement).

Kowloon Walled City clearees who have received the Government compensation set at HOS price level and who have opted to make self-arrangement for accommodation and their spouses listed on the clearance register (including the spouses of clearees who were unmarried at the time of receiving the compensation).

Clearees who had opted to receive cash allowance/ ex-gratia payment granted by the Housing Department (HD)/ HKHS/ URA/ Lands Department in lieu of any form of PRH/ IH, are not allowed to apply within two years after the date of receipt of the allowance/ ex-gratia payment.

Qualified households affected by land resumption and clearance required under the Hong Kong section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link project and the Liantang/ Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point and Associated Works, who had chosen the “ex-gratia cash allowance-only” option shall not apply within three years after the receipt of the allowance.

Households of HKHS’s Group B Rental Estates or Dedicated Rehousing Estates or fixed-term licensees of the HKHS.

Monthly licensees of HA's or HKHS's Transitional Rental Housing Units.

Tenants under conditional tenancies or fixed-term licensees of the HA.

The HA reserves the right to reject applications after scrutiny, and the application fees will not be refunded.