Victoria Park Lunar New Year Fair auction earns over $6.7 million with 383 stalls sold.

Auction for Victoria Park Lunar New Year Fair stalls ends

​The open auction for stalls at the 2025 Victoria Park Lunar New Year (LNY) Fair concluded today (October 24). The total revenue was $6,728,088.

A spokesman for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said that a total of 383 stalls at the Fair, including 158 for regular size dry goods, 46 for large size dry goods, 175 for wet goods and four for fast food, were let out during the three-day open auction.

To summarise the results of the auction held during the past two days (October 23 and 24), the successful bids for the regular size dry goods stalls ranged from $8,540 to $36,000, which averaged out to $11,700. The highest bid of $36,000 was about 4.2 times the opening price of $8,540. The auction of regular dry goods stalls fetched a total of $1,843,850. For the large size dry goods stalls, the successful bids ranged from $12,810 to $41,000, which averaged out to $15,783. The highest bid of $41,000 was about 3.2 times the opening price of $12,810. The auction of large size dry goods stalls fetched a total of $726,040.

The three auction days for the Victoria Park LNY Fair stalls attracted about 1 300 participants in total.

The auction for stalls of the Tat Tung Road Garden LNY Fair in Tung Chung will be held tomorrow (October 25) at Assembly Hall, 2/F, Lai Chi Kok Government Offices, 19 Lai Wan Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon. The auction session is scheduled from 9.30am until completion of the auction.

The auctions for stalls of the LNY fairs in Cheung Sha Wan Playground and Fa Hui Park in Sham Shui Po, Tsz Wan Shan Estate Central Playground in Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong Recreation Ground in Kwun Tong will be held at the above-mentioned venue from October 28 to 31. The auction sessions are scheduled from 9am or 9.30am to 12.30pm (AM session) and 2pm until completion of the auction (PM session).

The spokesman reminded the successful bidders to comply with all stipulations and provisions as set out in the licence agreement. Otherwise, the department is entitled to terminate the agreement and the licensee shall immediately vacate the stall.

Buildings Department follows up on incident of broken glass cladding at external wall of Citywalk

Upon notification by the Police at about 7.30pm last night (October 24) regarding the incident of broken glass cladding at the external wall of Citywalk, Tsuen Wan, staff of the Buildings Department (BD) was immediately deployed to carry out site inspection and found that a piece of glass cladding of about 3m by 2m at the external wall of the fifth floor of the building facing Wo Tik Street was broken. No obvious danger to the overall building structure was noted.

As instructed by the staff of the BD, the property management company (PMC) of the building has arranged a contractor to remove the remaining loosen pieces of glass last night and would arrange inspection to the other glass cladding and carry out necessary repair as soon as possible to ensure public safety. The BD will issue an investigation order to require the owner to appoint an authorised person to conduct investigation and submit an investigation report together with a remedial proposal. The BD would maintain contact with the PMC to monitor the progress of the investigation and repair works.

The affected pavement is temporarily fenced off. The BD will continue to follow up the matter to ensure public safety.

The BD has specific requirements on the quality and construction of glass cladding. For example, the testing of materials and procedures before installation should comply with the relevant statutory requirements.

The BD emphasised that it is the responsibility of owners to ensure the safety of their buildings. Timely repair and maintenance of private buildings is the basic responsibility of owners. They may also be liable to criminal prosecution and civil proceedings if the building dilapidation causes damage to property or injury to persons.