The buzz may be returning to Singapore's real estate investment sales market, with interest and activity recovering in the commercial sector in particular during the July-September quarter, compared with preceding quarters. That being said, overall, investment sales - defined as transactions totalling S$10 million and more - in the city-state was still down 55.1 per cent year on year to about S$4.4...
Leasing activity for Grade A offices in Singapore came to a halt during the "circuit-breaker" period and remained sluggish during the third quarter this year, according to a press statement by Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) on Tuesday. In the face of business uncertainty, tenants with immediate lease expiries are seeking short-term renewals. And with office space underutilised as work from home remains the...
Amazon is planning to take over some of Citigroup's office space in Singapore at a time when a number of the e-commerce giant's Chinese tech rivals are expanding here. The online retail giant will lease three floors covering about 90,000 square feet at Asia Square Tower 1 in the heart of the financial district, according to people with knowledge of the plans. Staff will move into the new offices...
Six shophouses - three on Baghdad Street, and three in the Telok Ayer area - were put up for sale on Wednesday. With the sites for all six shophouses zoned for commercial use, purchases are open to both local and foreign buyers, with no additional buyer's stamp duty to be imposed. Three adjoining prime shophouses at 14, 16 and 18 Baghdad Street are up for sale as an entirety by expression of interest...
Commercial building Maxwell House has been launched for collective sale via a public tender, the appointed property consultant Cushman & Wakefield announced on Monday. Owners holding not less than 80 per cent by strata area and share value have agreed to put the property on the market at a reserve price of S$295 million. Located at 20 Maxwell Road, the 13-storey property is built on a trapezoidal...
Forced to work from home over the past few months, companies and organisations are set to embrace remote work as a permanent management strategy for some functions within organisations. COVID-19 has demonstrated that for many companies, working from home can be almost as productive as being in the office, especially carrying out operational functions. It is now viewed as being a prudent way of...
Property developer Sun Ventures has appointed CBRE as the exclusive marketing agent for the sale of two consecutive strata office floors - levels nine and 10 - at Samsung Hub by way of an expression of interest (EOI) exercise. The indicative price is S$104.88 million, which translates to about S$4,000 per square foot based on a total strata area of about 26,220 square feet (sq ft) or 13,110 sq ft for...
Two shophouses located in the central business district (CBD) and three adjoining shophouses in Jalan Besar have been put up for sale by tender, marketing agents PropNex and Edmund Tie said separately on Tuesday. The three-story shophouse with an attic at 35 Kreta Ayer Road has a S$12 million guide price, or S$2,181 per square foot (psf) based on a total floor area of about 5,500 square feet (sq ft)....
Net absorption of office space in Singapore shrank by a record 55,000 square metres of net lettable area in the second quarter of this year. Meanwhile, the island-wide office vacancy rate climbed to 12.1 per cent from 11 per cent at the end of Q1 2020, according to data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority. There is no denying that office demand has weakened amid the recession triggered by...
Rentals of retail space in Singapore's central region shrank 3.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 over the previous three months, after easing 2.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2020. Data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Friday also showed that prices of retail space in the central region fell 1.5 per cent in Q2 2020, although this was a smaller drop than the 3.1 per cent...
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