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Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)

Hong Kong real estate company

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5894954 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hong Kong Property Services (Agency) Limited (HKPS) is one of the largest real estate brokerage companies in Hong Kong. It was established in 1986. It was acquired by Cheung Kong Holdings in 1996, but sold to Midland Holdings in 2000. It also establishes a subsidiary in Shenzhen to operate its real estate property agent business in Mainland China.

Editorial summary

“Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)” enters the record as hong Kong real estate company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hong, Kong and Property can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1996, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hong, Kong and Property.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hong, Kong and Property provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5894954. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1996 and 2000.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hong Kong Property Services (Agency) primary sources, Hong Kong Property Services (Agency) archive and Hong research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hong Kong Property Services (Agency)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.