The Lands Department issued two consents for the sale of 1,624 residential units in two uncompleted development projects last month.

The two residential projects, located in Kowloon and the New Territories, are estimated to be completed in January 2005 and December 2004 respectively.

At the end of July, there were 17 applications for pre-sale consent involving a total of 9,060 residential units throughout Hong Kong. All of them are expected to be completed before April 2005.

There are five applications for pre-sale consent involving commercial units in Kowloon and the west Kowloon reclamation.

In addition, there were five applications for consent to assign involving 4,868 residential units and two applications for consent to assign for commercial developments.