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Kwok brothers

Kwok Ping-sheung, Walter
郭炳湘
Born 1950 (age 66–67)
Hong Kong
Residence Hong Kong
Occupation Businessman, formerly chairman and CEO of Sun Hung Kai Properties
Net worth US$7 billion
Spouse(s) Lydia Ku (1982)
Wendy Lee (? – present)
Parent(s) Kwok Tak Seng (father)
Kwong Siu-hing (mother)
Relatives brothers: Thomas, Raymond

Kwok Ping-sheung, Walter JP (Chinese: 郭炳湘; pinyin: Guō Bǐngxiāng; born 1950 in Hong Kong, with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong) is the eldest son of Kwok Tak Seng and Kwong Siu-hing. Together with brothers Thomas and Raymond, they inherited Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest real estate developer, in 1990 following their father's death. As per Forbes(2015), Walter Kwok is the 9th wealthiest billionaire in Hong Kong and #193 in the world.

Walter, formerly chairman and CEO of that organisation, negotiated his departure from the family firm in 2010. His mother remains the controlling shareholder of the company, whilst his brothers manage the firm. The Kwok brothers are the third wealthiest people in Hong Kong and Greater China Region, just after Li Ka Shing and Lee Shau Kee. Their wealth is estimated to be 17 billion US dollars in Forbes' 2010 list of billionaires.

Walter Kwok, Thomas Kwok and Raymond Kwok are together referred to by financial and mainstream media as the Kwok brothers. Together they control the majority of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest real estate company in Asia. As of 2015, all three brothers were listed by Forbes in the Forbes 500 listing of the richest people in the world, with a combined net worth of 19 Billion US Dollars (As of August 2015).

According to the Standard, Kwok fell in love with an ambitious lawyer Ida Tong Kam-hing (唐錦馨), but his father did not allow him to marry her.


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