Seized Hong Kong Peak mansion linked to China Evergrande founder Hui Ka-yan sells at 40% discount for US$58 million

Receivers of a Hong Kong luxury property owned by a company linked to a top former executive of China’s most indebted developer, China Evergrande Group, have sold the asset on The Peak at a significant discount.

The 5,171 sq ft mansion, 10B at Black’s Link, sold to an unknown buyer for HK$450 million (US$58 million), more than 40 per cent below a valuation of HK$800 million last year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In March 2023, receivers put the asset up for sale to recover unpaid bills after the home was seized by China Construction Bank (Asia) in November 2022.
It is owned by Better Vision, whose director is Tan Haijun, according to a company registration search. Tan is also the director of Giant Hill, which owns adjacent mansions 10C and 10E Black’s Link, according to Land Registry data. Hui Ka-yan, Evergrande’s founder and former chairman, resigned as a director of Giant Hill on July 30, 2021. On the same day, Tan was appointed as Giant Hill’s director.
A photo taken on June 5, 2017 shows China Evergrande founder and former chairman Hui Ka-yan, known as Xu Jiayin in mainland China, attending a meeting in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province. Photo: AFP

Hui, once China’s richest person, has seen his personal wealth dwindle since China Evergrande was enmeshed in a debt crisis triggered by Beijing’s “three red lines” policy, which curbed leverage in the property industry starting in August 2020.

In March, the China Securities Regulatory Commission penalised China Evergrande 4.2 billion yuan (US$583.4 million), saying the group inflated its sales by 564 billion yuan in the years preceding its eventual collapse. It also fined Hui 47 million yuan and barred him from accessing the capital markets for life. Six other current and former executives of the Guangzhou-based home builder were slapped with penalties of between 200,000 yuan and 15 million yuan.

The 10C and 10E Black’s Link mansions, valued at more than HK$1.5 billion, were seized by creditors in November. The three adjacent mansions were remortgaged in late 2021 for HK$1.1 billion.

The 10E property, a three-storey detached house with an area of 4,933 sq ft and an estimated market value of HK$550 million, was put up for sale by public tender in March this year. Savills, the agent responsible for the sale, invited tenders for the property, which closed on April 22.

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