82% of Wang Fuk Court flat owners accept buy-back offer before priority deadline

More than 80 per cent of owners of the fire-ravaged housing estate, Wang Fuk Court, have accepted the Hong Kong government’s buy-back offer, a day before the deadline for them to secure priority flat selection under a special sales plan.The Housing Bureau said in a statement on Monday that it had received a total of 1,635 signed letters of acceptance, accounting for about 82.4 per cent of the total number of flats in the estate’s eight blocks.“Among them, 1,429 letters came from the seven buildings from Blocks A to G, representing about 82.3 per cent of the total number of flats in these seven buildings, and 206 letters came from Wang Chi House, or Block H, representing about 83 per cent of the total number of flats [there],” it said, adding that the figures reflected “good progress”.