Kingswood Villas () is a

private housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States a ...

Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northw ...

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. It has a total of 58

residential A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...

blocks and 15,808 units in six phases. It is the first private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai and one of the largest private housing estates in Hong Kong. It was developed by

Cheung Kong Holdings Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a major ...

from 1991 to 1999.

Phases

*Phase 1: Locwood Court () *Phase 2: Sherwood Court () *Phase 3: Chestwood Court () *Phase 4: Kingswood Ginza () *Phase 5: Lynwood Court () *Phase 6: Maywood Court () *Phase 7: Kenswood Court () File:HK Kingswood Villas Locwood Court.jpg, Phase 1 (Locwood Court) File:Kingswood Villas Sherwood Court.jpg, Phase 2 (Sherwood Court) File:HK Kingswood ChestwoodCourt.jpg, Phase 3 (Chestwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Ginza.jpg, Phase 4 (Kingswood Ginza) File:HK Kingswood LynwoodCourtView1.jpg, Phase 5 (Lynwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Maywood Court.jpg, Phase 6 (Maywood Court) File:HK Kingswood Villas KenswoodCourt.jpg, Phase 7 (Kenswood Court)

Demographics

In the 2016 by-census, the population of the estate was recorded as 39,964. The median age of the residents was 44.4, slightly more than the Hong Kong-wide figure of 43.4.

Transportation

* Light Rail **

Locwood stop Locwood () is an MTR stop. It is located at ground level at Tin Shui Road, between Locwood Court and Sherwood Court of Kingswood Villas, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the ...

(for Locwood Court and Sherwood Court) **

Chestwood stop Chestwood () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level at the centre of Tin Wing Road, between Chestwood Court, Kingswood Villas Phase III, and Tin Chung Court, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (for ...

(for Chestwood Court) **

Tin Wing stop Tin Wing () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level beside Tin Shing Road in Tin Shui Wai Town Centre, Yuen Long District. It began service on 26 March 1995 and belongs to Zone 4. History The stop was originally named Tin Shui ...

(for Lynwood Court) **

Ginza stop Ginza () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level in the centre of Tin Shing Road in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District. It began service on 7 December 2003 and belongs to Zone 4. It is the only station on the MTR network with a ...

(for Maywood Court, Kingswood Court and +WOO) *Residential Service Bus **There are several non-franchised residential

bus routes A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

between Kingswood Villas and urban districts, which started operations in 1991. It was originally operated by Citybus. But Citybus decided to withdraw all routes and

Kwoon Chung Motors A kwoon () is a training hall for Chinese martial arts. According to ''A Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition) 1978'', from Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (PRC), the word ''guǎn'' can also mean 1) Accommodation for guest ...

replaced Citybus to operate them in 2006.Withdrawal of Citybus Kingswood Villas Residential Bus Services
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References

External links

Kingswood Villas Official Site
* S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang
"A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market"
''International Real Estate Review'', 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29 {{coord, 22.460, 114.005, type:landmark_region:HK, display=title Private housing estates in Hong Kong Tin Shui Wai CK Hutchison Holdings 1992 establishments in Hong Kong