Table 6.

Statistics of the house-building industry in Hong Kong

Year		1999	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Number of establishments	Construction	20 233	19 520	18 302	17 985	19 057	19 399
	Real estate development and leasing	3583	3084	3276	3351	3037	3134
	Real estate management and maintenance	465	431	292	367	543	581
	Real estate agency	1958	1496	1050	1220	1306	1411
	Total	26 239	24 531	22 920	22 923	23 943	24 525
Number of people directly engaged	Construction	157 685	124 933	122 007	122 870	135 337	114 294
	Real estate development and leasing	9464	8794	8900	9375	10 260	10 476
	Real estate management and maintenance	53 280	58 258	62 186	68 126	67 523	67 885
	Real estate agency	14 551	13 409	14 819	15 585	16 179	17 762
	Total	234 980	205 394	207 912	215 956	229 299	210 417
All private residential projects	Number of projects	286	213	159	127	131	140
	Total expenses (million HK$)	43 010	29 600	21 869	21 131	22 363	19 788
	Payments to contractors (million HK$)	28 287	22 981	16 365	14 308	16 352	13 939
	Building materials and fittings supplied (million HK$)	134	0a	0a	2	5	8
	Architectural design and technical consultancy fees (million HK$)	1441	1125	938	747	747	689
	Interest payments (million HK$)	10 686	2273	1143	2128	2966	3540
	Other project expenses (million HK$)	2462	3221	3423	3947	2294	1612

^aLess than HK$0.5 million.