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The Rating and Valuation Department is a key official source for Hong Kong tenancy form questions, but tenants and landlords often mix up very different workflows. Form CR109, sale-and-lease toolkit materials, and regulated-tenancy forms for subdivided units do not all do the same job. Some users are trying to endorse a domestic tenancy notice. Others are checking whether a subdivided-unit tenancy is regulated. Others simply want their deposit back and are on the wrong page entirely.
This guide helps you choose the right RVD form family and avoid document mistakes. It does not replace the current RVD instructions, and it does not decide a deposit, stamp duty, possession, or rent dispute by itself.
Mistake 1: treating every tenancy form as CR109
Form CR109 is commonly associated with a Notice of New Letting or Renewal Agreement for domestic property. That does not mean every tenant problem is a CR109 problem. Before filling anything in, identify the purpose: notifying a new letting or renewal, understanding sale-and-lease materials, checking regulated tenancy of subdivided units, or dealing with a separate dispute. Traditional Chinese labels that may help your folder are 差餉物業估價署, 表格CR109, 新租出或重訂協議通知書, 規管租賃, 分間單位, 業主, 租客, and 租約.
Mistake 2: using the wrong form for subdivided units
Subdivided-unit tenancies have their own regulated-tenancy framework and form references. If the home is a subdivided unit, do not assume ordinary domestic tenancy forms answer every question. Check the RVD regulated-tenancy pages and the form or notice name carefully. Keep written tenancy details, rent records, utility bills, photos of the unit, messages with the landlord or operator, and any demand about water or electricity charges. These facts may matter more than the label used in casual conversation.
Mistake 3: assuming an RVD form fixes the lease
An RVD filing or notice does not automatically make every lease clause fair, recover a deposit, stamp a tenancy agreement, or prove that repairs were handled correctly. Treat RVD forms as official tenancy-administration documents. Keep a separate dispute file for rent payments, deposit, move-in condition, repair requests, key return, utility calculations, and communications. If your real problem is a withheld deposit, you may also need to consider a demand letter or a separate dispute route rather than only an RVD form.
Mistake 4: inconsistent names, dates, and premises
Many form problems begin with inconsistent basics. Compare the tenancy agreement, any stamped copy, RVD form, rent receipts, identity documents, landlord correspondence, and property address. Check the commencement date, expiry date, rent amount, deposit amount, parties, premises description, and whether the agreement is new, renewed, extended, assigned, or varied. If the landlord is a company, keep the company name exactly as shown. If an agent signs, keep proof of authority.
Mistake 5: not preserving submission proof
If a form is submitted online, by post, in person, or through another channel permitted by the current RVD instructions, keep the submission receipt, reference number, timestamp, copy of the completed form, attachments, and any reply. If a landlord says they submitted it, ask for dated proof. A verbal assurance is hard to use later if there is a disagreement about whether the form was filed, when it was filed, or what it said.
A landlord cooperation request
A tenant can write:
Dear [name], I am organising the tenancy documents for [address]. Please confirm whether any RVD tenancy form, including CR109 or any regulated-tenancy form if applicable, has been submitted for this tenancy. If submitted, please provide a copy or reference. If not, please confirm the current official form or step you say applies.
Traditional Chinese version: 就[地址]的租賃文件，請確認是否已就本租約提交任何差餉物業估價署租賃表格，包括表格CR109或適用於規管租賃的表格。如已提交，請提供副本或參考編號；如未提交，請確認你認為現時適用的官方表格或步驟。
Make a form map before asking for help
Before contacting RVD, a landlord, or an adviser, write a one-page form map. List the property address, tenancy dates, rent, deposit, parties, whether the unit is subdivided, which form you found, which form has already been submitted, and what outcome you need. This small map keeps the conversation focused and reduces the chance that a deposit complaint, CR109 question, and regulated-tenancy issue get tangled together.
Where Unwildered fits
Upload the tenancy agreement, any stamped copy, RVD form, landlord messages, rent records, utility bills, subdivided-unit photos, and submission receipts. Unwildered can help identify which form family the documents point to, spot inconsistent dates or party names, and separate RVD administration from deposit or repair disputes.
Official context to check
Hong Kong has useful official market context through the Rating and Valuation Department, but tenancy disputes still turn on documents. Use RVD materials to separate ordinary tenancies, stamping questions, regulated subdivided-unit issues and small-claims evidence.
Sources
Rating and Valuation Department: tenancy matters
Hong Kong e-Legislation: Landlord and Tenant materials
Judiciary: Small Claims Tribunal
This article is general information, not legal, financial, medical or tax advice.
