劏房租金指數

近十年租金和樓價上升得更為瘋狂，劏房愈發普遍成為基層解決住屋需要的出路，劏房戶更多時是香港最低收入的一群，也缺乏市場資訊以提升議價能力。我們發現香港現存並沒有針對劏房進行的租金指數調查，故希望藉發佈<劏房租金指數>，改善市場資訊的流通，同時亦提供研究數據去了解劏房租戶所面對的處境。

Rental Index of Sub-divided Housing Units

There are some housing rental indices in Hong Kong, such as the government’s Rating and Vauluation Departent (RVD) rental index, however, there are no rental indices for sub-divided units, probably because many of them are not reported to be sub-divided units to RVD.

Yet, tenants of sub-divided housing units are in the most urgent need of this market information because they are normally the lowest income group of households, and are vulnerable to any unreasonable rental increase. Currently, they rely solely on real estate agents, who are in serious conflict of interests because their commissions are based on a fixed percentage of the monthly rent of the units.

We hope this research will enhance information symmetry on rental data to both owners and tenants, and provide data for better understanding of the tenants’ conditions, and reasons for choosing sub-divided units.