Property school
識判斷
This school practises one thing: how you reach a judgment you will own when you are faced with a Hong Kong listing, a set of documents, and a price. It will not decide for you whether to buy, sell, hold, or rent.
This is not investment advice.
This is not a degree.
Who it is for
Anyone preparing to read a listing for themselves — an owner, a possible buyer, a person helping family. The condition is that you want to practise judgment, not to be told what to do.
Who it is not for
- Anyone who wants an inside price, a target price, or a yes-or-no on whether to go ahead.
- Anyone who wants a paper they can call a qualification or a professional licence.
Outline
Modules 0–7
Every case in the room is classroom material. It is not your flat, and it is not a forecast.
This outline is a draft. What a cohort actually does is confirmed in writing before it starts. This page is not a contract, and it states no fee.
0
Diagnosis
How you currently make a property decision. Whose sentence you repeat, what you skip, which number you treat as a fact that cannot be questioned. A short sheet, not a personality test.
ArtifactOne page: how I judge.
1
The shape of a judgment
A judgment has three parts: a claim, the evidence it stands on, and what would change your mind. A tip, a mood, and a friend’s completed deal get named first, so they can be set down.
ArtifactRewrite one familiar saying as a claim that could fail.
2
A listing has an author
Someone wrote it, and someone benefits. Practise separating what is shown, what is asserted, and what is absent. Floor area is often written in more than one way; this module asks you to find out which, not to memorise a conversion.
ArtifactAn evidence table for one classroom listing.
3
A price is a sentence
An asking price, a transacted price, and a reference figure are different kinds of evidence. This module practises what you still ask when you hear a number. We do not forecast the market, and we do not tell you what to pay.
ArtifactA list of what this number cannot prove.
4
Documents draw the line
Learn the names of a few Hong Kong property documents, and who you ask to interpret them: a land search, the government lease, the DMC, the occupation permit. Naming a document is not reading it. This module is not legal advice.
ArtifactQuestions for a solicitor or a surveyor.
5
Outside the headline
The transacted price is not the whole cost. Stamp duty, agency, mortgage, management fees, rates and government rent appear here as questions, not as answers. This module publishes no tax rate and compares no mortgage plans.
ArtifactOne page of what the headline price leaves out.
6
“A good deal”
Take a confident sales sentence apart: is it asking you to hurry, or to look? Practise rewriting it, or refusing to.
ArtifactThree sales passages, taken apart.
7
The judgment memo
The stretch leaves one artifact: a judgment memo on a single classroom case. You write what you believe, what you do not know, and who is qualified to answer the rest. Then the viva. You are asked in person. Sending the file is not the end.
ArtifactThe memo, and one viva.
What this school will not do
- It will not tell you to buy, sell, hold, or rent.
- It will not forecast prices, or rank estates or developers.
- It will not issue a diploma, a certificate, or a professional licence.
- It does not replace a solicitor, a surveyor, or an estate agent.
- It will not look at the transaction you have in progress.
Once more: this is not investment advice, and it is not a degree.