Food and beverage outlets have been eating into commercial and retail spaces at office buildings and shopping malls, as landlords realise the power of such outlets when it comes to drawing the crowds. Property consultants say many landlords now allocate up to 35 per cent of the net lettable floor area to F&B uses, compared to just 5 to 10 per cent a decade ago. Groups such as families who visit malls...
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SGX-listed Straits Trading Company plans to sell its Straits Trading Building to Sun Venture Group for S$450 million. In a filing to the Singapore Exchange on Friday (Sep 5), the company said the sale is in line with its strategy of redeploying its low-yielding investment properties into potentially higher return real estate opportunities. Straits Trading is expected to realise an estimated capital...
Over the last three years, the global financial firms that dominated 60 per cent of office space in Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD) have given up 500,000 square feet (sq ft) in space. Taking their places are big names from the e-commerce, consumer products and insurance industries, according to real estate group Jones Lang LaSalle. “Ten years ago all anyone wanted was financial houses...
Amid a more competitive retail landscape in Singapore, more shopping malls have been undergoing asset enhancements. According to property analysts, the number of such initiatives has nearly doubled in the last five years, with landlords and mall developers expected to continue with improvement works to their retail properties in order to attract more shoppers and retain tenants. One of the many shopping...
The office rental market continues to grow ahead of the retail and industrial property segments. Latest data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Friday (July 25) shows that rentals of office space rose 2.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2014, compared with a 2.4 per cent increase in the first quarter. Analysts say they could climb by another 5 per cent in the second half of this...
Prices of office space were flat in the second quarter after a 0.5 per cent increase in the first quarter, while prices of retail space fell 0.3 per cent after remaining unchanged in the previous quarter, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said on Friday (July 25). Rental prices of office space in the second quarter rose 2.8 per cent from the previous three months, following the 2.4 per cent...
More than 90 per cent of the outlets at the new food and beverage cluster at Punggol Point have been taken up; three months after the site received its Temporary Occupation Permit in April 2014. Tenants at Punggol Settlement hope it will become the next go-to seafood dining location after East Coast. With a growing population in the area and more recreational facilities coming up, some tenants say...
Property analysts are expecting prime office rents in the central business district (CBD) to rise by 10 per cent over the next 12 to 18 months. The increase will be driven largely by demand for Grade A office buildings in the CBD. But if rents there spike significantly, analysts warn that some tenants could move to the suburban areas. Market watchers have said that rent at Grade A office buildings...
Singapore's office market is recovering but central business district rents are unlikely to rise dramatically as much of the new demand is from tenants who are more price-sensitive, real estate services firm Chestertons said on Tuesday (July 8). According to Chestertons, firms in sectors such as energy, commodities and technology do not necessarily require prime CBD locations and will be among the first...
A row of retail shops in Toa Payoh Central was put for sale by tender, according to real estate company Savills. In a statement on Monday (July 7), Savills said the property has a strata area of about 5,780 square feet and is located next to the HDB Hub. It also has a remaining lease of about 57 years from the Housing and Development Board (HDB). The company is the exclusive marketing agent for the...