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Estate agencies' price-fixing case sent to Competition Tribunal
HK Competition Commission, 14-Nov-2023
Midland (1200) and subsidiary HK Property Services, allegedly colluded with Centaline and its subsidiary Ricacorp to set a minimum net commission that buyers of first-hand homes would pay. Centaline/Ricacorp gave evidence and will not face action from CompComm, but could theoretically be sued by customers in a "follow-on" action, except that there has never been a follow-on action under this law because HK does not have a class-action system, so access to justice it is prohibitively expensive. The Govt appointed a committee to study that problem 11 years ago, including the current Chairman of CompComm, Samuel Chan Ka Yan. He told Webb-site recently that they haven't met in years.
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- CENTALINE PROPERTY AGENCY LIMITED 中原地產代理有限公司
- HKSAR Working Group on Class Actions 香港特別行政區集體訴訟工作小組
- Midland Holdings Limited (BM) 美聯集團有限公司
- MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 美聯物業代理有限公司
- RICACORP PROPERTIES LIMITED 利嘉閣地產有限公司
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