Industrial

Google is building a third data centre in Singapore to meet rapid user growth in the region, bringing its total long-term investment in such facilities here to US$850 million (S$1.16 billion). The US$350 million facility will be in Jurong West near its first two centres. Google said the complex, which is expected to come online in 2020, will be built on a plot of land the size of the first and second...

JTC has launched one site for tender under the 2018 Industrial Government Land Sales (IGLS) programme, the government agency announced in a press statement on Tuesday. The launch is part of the government’s efforts to offer more choices for industrial development, and the site at Woodlands Industrial Park is the first of six confirmed list sites for the second half 2018 IGLS programme. Occupying a...

Interest in commercial and industrial property could shoot up as investors look for alternative opportunities following the latest tough new cooling measures for residential real estate, say experts. Retail investors who can afford a higher capital outlay could turn to strata-titled offices and conserved shophouses that are zoned commercial, said Cushman & Wakefield's senior director of research...

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has secured a new build-to-suit (BTS) data centre in the west region of Singapore for an established data centre operator for some S$60 million. The six-storey purpose-built data centre with gross floor area of about 242,000 square feet will be fully leased to the client for an initial lease term of more than 10 years with staggered rental escalations and renewal...

In response to demand for more flexible use of industrial space, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and JTC will be piloting new land use guidelines at a multi-tenanted building to be developed by JTC and located within Woodlands North Coast on a site zoned Business 1-White. The Woodlands pilot development will support manufacturing companies in co-locating their service-driven activities like...

Industrial prices and rentals continued their decline for a seventh consecutive quarter in the last three months of 2016. Prices fell a further three per cent in the fourth quarter, and rentals by 0.5 per cent, said JTC on Thursday. For the year, industrial prices retreated 9.1 per cent, and rentals, 6.8 per cent. This was steeper than the 1.7 per cent decline in prices and the 2.1 per cent in rentals...

PRICES of industrial space in Singapore fell a further 3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, while rentals dipped 0.5 per cent, according to official JTC statistics released on Thursday morning. For the full year, industrial prices and rentals have retreated 9.1 per cent and 6.8 per cent respectively. Occupancy levels bucked a falling trend to increase 0.4 percentage points to 89.5 per cent in the...

THE shine is coming off industrial units. Waning investment yields and demand from end-users have kept a lid on buying interest. The numbers say as much. The number of strata transactions has been falling since the peak of 2012. Based on the caveats lodged, the figure dipped by a fifth (20.7 per cent) last year from the year before; the 849 such units sold in 2016 made for the fourth straight year of...

THE misuse of industrial space has become rampant, and with tenants having settled into units in new strata projects offering office-like designs and proximity to transport nodes, the trend has become even more conspicuous. Businesses ranging from law firms and real-estate agencies to accounting and tax advisory firms, recruitment agencies, training providers, commercial schools and boutique investment...

CAMBRIDGE Industrial Trust (CIT) announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement with RBC Investor Services Trust Singapore Limited for the proposed sale of the remaining leasehold interest in a property located at Ubi for S$22.1 million, excluding divestment costs and application goods and services tax. The five-storey light property, located at 55 Ubi Avenue 3, has a gross floor area of...