Buying a Flat (White Form Status)
The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) launched the Interim Scheme of Extending the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) Secondary Market to White Form (WF) Buyers (the Interim Scheme) in January 2013. Successful applicants (WF) allotted with quotas may apply for the Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase (CEP) to the HA and/or the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) for purchase of a flat in the HA's HOS Secondary Market or the HKHS's Flat-for-Sale Scheme (FFSS) Secondary Market with premium not yet paid. The first round of the Interim Scheme with a quota of 5,000 was completed in April 2015. The second round of the Interim Scheme with a quota of 2,500 was launched in August 2015 and it was also completed in May 2017. Over 4,000 WF applicants achieved home ownership through the two rounds of the Interim Scheme.
The HA endorsed regularizing the Interim Scheme as the White Form Secondary Market Scheme (WSM) in November 2017. WSM 2018 was launched in March 2018 with a quota of 2,500. WSM 2019 was launched in May 2019 with a quota of 3,000. WSM 2020, 2022 and 2023 were launched in September 2020, February 2022 and July 2023 respectively with the quota of 4,500. WSM 2024 was launched in March 2025. The quota was 6,000, which include 4,500 ordinary quotas and 1,500 additional quotas of the Youth Scheme (WSM).
The application period for WSM 2025 is from 30 April 2026 to 20 May 2026. The quota for WSM 2025 is 7,000, which include 5,000 ordinary quotas and 2,000 quotas of the Youth Scheme (WSM). The ordinary quotas include 4,500 quotas allocated to family applicants and 500 quotas allocated to one-person applicants; the quotas of the Youth Scheme (WSM) include 1,800 quotas allocated to young family applicants and 200 quotas allocated to young one-person applicants. The HA will conduct detailed vetting of applications according to the random order generated from ballot result by computer to determine whether individual applicants meet the eligibility criteria and their final priority. The ordinary quotas will be allocated to 5,000 eligible applicants who have higher priority (regardless of whether the applicants have opted to join or not to join the Youth Scheme (WSM)), and the quotas of the Youth Scheme (WSM) will be allocated to 2,000 eligible applicants who have opted to join the Youth Scheme (WSM) according to the subsequent priority sequence. If the allocated quota for family applicant is not fully utilised, the remaining quota will be allocated to one-person applicants and vice versa.
Successful applicants allotted with quotas may apply within 6 weeks from the date of Approval Letter to the HA and/ or the HKHS, in accordance with the type of the flat they intend to purchase and pay the respective fee for the CEP to purchase the flats with premium not yet paid in the HA’s HOS Secondary Market or the HKHS’s FFSS Secondary Market. The HA will issue a suitably higher number of Approval Letters than the quota set under the WSM exercise to enable the quota for purchasing flats can be fully utilized. The ratio of Approval Letters that exceeds the quota for WSM 2025 is 18%, a total of 8,300 Approval Letters will be issued.
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White Form Secondary Market Scheme 2025
