Leasing arrangements announced for public market stalls in June

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced today (May 30) that open auctions for a total of 541 stalls in 47 public markets will be held in June. Market stalls not taken at open auctions will be available to the public for renting at their upset prices on June 20 on a first-come, first-served basis.

(1) Open auctions—————————————————————————-
Auction date: June 6 (Friday) (pm)
Number of stalls: 106—————————————————————————-
Auction date: June 9 (Monday) (am)
Number of stalls: 125——————-
Auction date: June 9 (Monday) (pm)
Number of stalls: 19—————————————–
Auction date: June 10 (Tuesday) (am)
Number of stalls: 68—————–
Auction date: June 10 (Tuesday) (pm)
Number of stalls: 3—————————————–
Auction date: June 11 (Wednesday) (am)
Number of stalls: 45—————————————–
Auction date: June 11 (Wednesday) (pm)
Number of stalls: 11———————
Auction date: June 12 (Thursday) (am)
Number of stalls: 84———————
Auction date: June 13 (Friday) (am)
Number of stalls: 80 A spokesman for the FEHD said, “Bidders or applicants for the market stalls must be at least 18 years old and ordinarily reside in Hong Kong. To allow more people to bid for or select the stalls and increase customer choices by enhancing the diversity in terms of the variety of stalls, there will be a restriction on the number of stalls to be rented in the same market by a single tenant. Any person who is currently a stall tenant is not allowed to bid in the first round of auction for any stall in the same market, and will only be allowed to bid for one stall in the second round of auction or to select one stall in the same market on a first-come, first-served basis. The existing tenants under the new three-year fixed term tenancy scheme (i.e. those persons who became stall tenants through the market open auctions after August 2022) are allowed to bid for a stall in the auction or select a stall on a first-come, first-served basis in the same market, but shall vacate the current stall and return it to the FEHD before the effective date of commencement of the new tenancy agreement.”

Details of the open auctions and the public market stalls concerned (including stalls for open auction at reduced upset prices) have been uploaded to the FEHD website (www.fehd.gov.hk/english/pleasant_environment/tidy_market/open_auction_coming.html