4th November 2026 – (Hong Kong) A stone hut on Sunset — cottage No. 3 at Lantau Mountain Camp — is due under the hammer on 18th November from HK$380,000, bringing one of Lantau’s century-old missionary summer camps into a private auction after years on a one-dollar rent.
C S Auctioneers Ltd. will offer the property, the smallest in the Lantau Mountain Camp stone-hut cluster, on a site of about 2,500 square feet. That works out at roughly HK$152 per square foot of site area. A former tenant who paid a symbolic HK$1 a year has already moved out because of advanced age. Cheng Sai-kit, general manager of the auction house’s auction department, said the listing drew many enquiries as soon as it appeared.
Auction particulars show a weather-worn exterior, yet the interior is described as reasonably tidy. Basic living kit remains — a dining table and chairs, shelving for daily items — and a rest area has been set aside inside, giving the remote hill cottage a simple overnight feel despite its rugged shell.
The hut is held by Hong Kong film director and photographer Yung Wai-chuen, described as among the most long-standing Chinese owners in the stone-hut group. He bought it from a missionary for a few thousand dollars, and his first feature-length drama used the building as a location. As he grew older and no one kept the place up, it stood empty for about 15 years before an expatriate tour guide took it on at HK$1 a year.
Lantau Mountain Camp itself stretches back a century. In the early twentieth century, Christian missionaries working in South China built highland summer camps; records say the Lantau Mountain Camp land was auctioned at the end of December 1924 and the first cottages were finished in the summer of 1925. Researchers believe the stone was cut on the mountain itself.
