The compound comprises a three-storey "red bricks and green tiles" building, a private garden festooned with penjing plants, various pavilions and terraces.

The Association also organised a "Save King Yin Lei Campaign" in June and generated public discussion.

The Government of Hong Kong did not act to preserve the building, arguing that it was private property and had not used its allocated land mass to the fullest.

If the government was to declare it a historical building, thus forbidding the demolition and any further development on the site, it would have to pay a large amount of compensation to the owner, in the millions.

When the start of demolition was reported in the Hong Kong media, the government declared the site a proposed monument and ordered a work stoppage.

[3] In 2019, King Yin Lei was included in Batch VI of the Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme.

[16] In June 2022, the Tianda Institute, a think tank owned by Hong Kong businessman Fang Wenquan, was selected from 18 applicants to operate the mansion.

[17] The group plans to build a one storey annex for a tea studio at the mansion and use the villa as a learning centre to promote Chinese culture, history and environmental studies.

Two films were shot at King Yin Lei in 1955: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and Clark Gable's Soldier of Fortune.