A property management firm appointed by the government to take over the owners’ board at the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court has told owners it has no plans to hold a general meeting. Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on December 10, 2025. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. According to an email sent on Sunday by Hop On Management Company, which was appointed to take over the Tai Po estate’s owners’ board in January, a petition for an owners’ meeting launched last month did not satisfy statutory requirements.
No official meeting for owners or residents has been held since the fire broke out in late November.
“Following a detailed review and consultation with legal counsel, we note that… you had gathered owners’ concerns via an online form, but provided no further information,” Hop On said in the email.
“Since the information you provided does not meet the relevant statutory requirements, we will not be arranging an owners’ meeting at this stage,” the estate management firm added, without specifying what information was needed for those requirements to be fulfilled.
Estate management firm Hop On, a subsidiary of real estate giant Chinachem Group, was chosen by the government in January to take over as the “administrator” of the estate while the owners’ corporation board was dissolved, following the massive fire that killed 168 people and displaced thousands.
HKFP has reached out to Hop On for comment.
Legal requirement
Hong Kong’s Building Management Ordinance stipulates that the chair of an estate’s management committee shall convene a general meeting at the written request of no less than 5 per cent of the owners.
The meeting must be convened within 14 days of receiving the request and held within 45 days of receiving it.
More than 420 homeowners at the estate – exceeding the 5 per cent threshold – petitioned for a general meeting with Hop On last month.
“We believe that only through a formal homeowners’ meeting, during which every resident can directly pose questions and receive immediate responses, can confusion be eliminated and consensus reached. The management of the estate will also become more transparent and credible,” the Chinese-language petition letter read. Representatives for Chinachem Group at the Lands Tribunal, on January 6, 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Echoing earlier comments by Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak, Hop On said it was making preparations for a “briefing session” in early May.
The management firm said that the session would not clash with investigation hearings into the deadly fire or with dates for residents to collect their belongings from the decimated estate. Mak said on Sunday that the government-appointed management firm would need time to process some 800,000 documents from residents that were previously handled by the owners’ board at the estate.
She also said that Hop On was still dealing with the issue of service contracts signed by the previous owners’ board that had been terminated early.