1.   Inquiries must continue, however, to discover if Trevor Graham, a chartered surveyor, takes rural walks.

2.   Nicholas Brooke, a chartered surveyor and consultant to many large developers here, said that developers also need to keep selling if they want to keep buying land.

3.   Pang Shiu-kee, chartered surveyor at S K Pang Surveyors, agreed a conservative opening price would be encouraging to developers.

4.   Pang Shiu-kee, chartered surveyor at S K Pang Surveyors, said he was not surprised by the price war in Tai Po.

5.   Nigel Talbot-Ponsonby, chairman of chartered surveyors Humberts Leisure, which is handling the sale, said the properties are profitable tourist operations.

6.   The project, drawn up by a chartered surveyor rather than an architect, is for a wing at his Highgrove residence to be used for charity balls.