What if selling your flat in 2008 ruined your entire life? This couple's property nightmare is uncomfortably real.
Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestThe difficulty of buying a property in Hong Kong is the highest in the world. A supermarket manager who sold his property for cash during the 2008 financial crisis has chased property prices ever since to fulfill the dream purchasing a new flat for him and his wife.
Acting
Andrew Lam and Nina Paw's exhausted married chemistry.
Writing
Turns mortgage stress into actual jokes. Somehow.
Production
Cramped HK flats shot claustrophobically real.
Creator
Kwan Shu-ming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hong Kong's property price-to-income ratio hit 23:1 in 2022 — this series aired as young people gave up on ownership entirely. The title 樓房 literally means 'building room' but colloquially means 'the flat that owns you.'
Nina Paw and Andrew Lam had never played a married couple despite 40+ years in HK entertainment; their casting was deliberately 'fresh' to avoid audience assumptions.
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