Germany's SEB Group has bought 12 strata-title floors of the office building Anson 79. It is paying S$215 million to Farrell Asset Management for some 10,300 square metres of Grade A office space. SEB already owns another nearby Grade A office building Springleaf Tower. Anson 79 is a 23-storey building in Shenton Way and is within walking distance of Tanjong Pagar MRT station. It has an occupancy of...
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Singapore-listed Straits Trading Company is pumping in some S$60 million to build a new building. It will be developed on the site of the old Straits Trading Building and is expected to be completed in 2009. Agents for the New Straits Trading Building said they see strong demand for premium mid-sized office space. A new 28-storey Straits Trading Building will rise in the heart of Singapore's financial...
Chiu Teng Estates has put in the top bid of S$14.8 million for a 99-year leasehold commercial site at Jalan Sultan. This works out to S$10,480 per square metre per site area. It is also just S$1.2 million more than the second highest bid. The tender attracted 20 bids in all. Meanwhile, the Urban Redevelopment Authority has decided to reject the only bid submitted for the transitional office site at...
A dearth of supply and high demand from businesses expanding in the region drove up prices so much that Singapore recorded the second highest annual growth in office occupancy costs in the world last year. Annual office occupancy costs here rose 93 per cent to US$16,220 ($23,275) per workstation, just behind Moscow’s 95-per-cent growth, according to real estate consultancy DTZ Debenham Tie Leung’s...
CapitaCommercial Trust is preparing to spend up to S$1.5 billion to convert the Market Street Car Park into an office tower. Whether the project will go ahead or not depends on feasibility studies, but a major regulatory hurdle has been cleared. The URA has lifted restrictions for the site, which originally requires the land to be used mainly for car parks. CapitaCommercial, which owns the car park...
More investors pump money into office property as reselling them could reap huge gainsIT WAS probably the most profitable “flip” in the property market. In a deal announced last week, GE Real Estate made a whopping 73 per cent profit on its initial $75-million investment, when it sold Anson House for $129.5 million, a year after purchasing it. The 13-storey building, located at Anson Road, is now...
Three more properties have been put up for tender by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) for office and other uses. One site at Queensway is the former Alexandra fire station, which includes the former Singapore Civil Defence Camp. The tender will open this month for the two-storey building, with tenancy renewable up to 2015. Another two-storey building is the office formerly occupied by the Civil...
An iconic redevelopment site at the heart of the CBD has been put up for sale. Currently known as The Riverwalk, the 82,317-sq ft site is zoned for commercial use. It has a gross plot ratio of up to 4.9, and has the potential to be redeveloped into an iconic commercial building with a gross floor area of about 403,351 sq ft, subject to approval and payment of development charge and land premium for the...
The strong demand for office space in the central business district has spilled over to the rest of Singapore. According to property consultants DTZ, the occupancy rate for office space islandwide climbed to 97.6 percent in the third quarter. This is largely because of an acute shortage of office space in the Central Business District (CBD). DTZ says the shortage is due to the demolition of Asia...
CapitaLand has sold its entire 50 percent stake in Chevron House for over S$366 million. When the deal is done, the property developer will book a gain of S$151 million on the investment. Chevron House is an office building in the banking and financial district of Raffles Place. It was formerly known as Caltex House. CapitaLand has been taking advantage of the buoyant office property market to divest...