Real Estate newsletter highlighting recent legal and regulatory developments in commercial real estate in Hong Kong

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Cases round up

• Non-registered short term agreement between vendor and tenant at below market rent void against bona fide purchaser for valuable consideration -??? v ???
• Specific language for requisitions and unequivocal act of waiver of right to object - Join Union Investment Ltd v China Tree Investment Ltd
• Good title given if risk of technical non-compliance is merely “fanciful” - Jovian Corporate Communications Ltd v Link Wide International Investment (Hong Kong) Ltd
• No implied term in joint ventures that one party shall complete alone and return the other’s contribution where no sub-purchaser found - Kwang Qian Wen Marie v Kwan Kit Yuk