Demand rises for high-quality building managers

The mainland's growing middle class is demanding qualified supervisors to promote safety and better services, and Hong Kong may oblige. Wang Feng reports.

The headline read "Hangzhou nanny sets mansion on fire", and the 2017 arson case in the capital of Zhejiang province has been a focus of attention on the Chinese mainland ever since. Investigations that followed the tragedy - in which a woman and her three children died - also cast the spotlight on the failings of the management of the 25-story building.

"The (property) industry on the mainland is moving so fast that the fundamental elements are not keeping up," said Edmund Tong Wingho, a chartered surveyor in Hong Kong who also works as a property manager on the mainland.