Come July, the developer behind the mega mixed-use project Marina One will find out whether its strategy four years ago of holding back half its 1,042 residential units from the market has paid off. M+S Pte Ltd, the joint-venture firm by Malaysia's Khazanah Nasional and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, will release 30 per cent of its 521-unit Garden Tower for sale, with the rest expected to be released in...

A commercial and residential site at Sengkang Central, which was launched under the government land sale (GLS) programme for sale via the dual envelop system, received seven tender submissions at the close of the tender on Thursday. Several major developers joined forces, with the usual partnerships seen. They include a joint bid by CapitaLand Singapore and City Developments Ltd, as well as from Wing...

A five-room HDB at Holland Drive has been sold in June for S$1.1 million, setting a new record for the area. The 38th-floor resale unit at Block 18C Holland Drive has a floor area of 1,259 sq ft, which works out to about S$874 per sq ft (psf). Built under the Selected En Bloc Redevelopment scheme, the unit has a remaining lease of 93 years and has an unblocked view. It was transacted at 16 per...

Wah Loon Engineering founder Alan Chong has recently snapped up one of the tallest conservation shophouses along Boat Quay for S$21.35 million. Spanning six levels, the shophouse has an estimated built-up area of 6,300 sq ft, according to information on the website of Clifton Partners, a real estate investment firm. The property is being sold by an affiliate of the company. Boasting views of the...

Marketing agency Knight Frank is pleased to announce that Kemaman Point, a 89-unit residential development located off Balestier Road, has been sold collectively to Soilbuild Group Holdings Ltd for S$143.88 million. The sale price to redevelop the site to a gross plot ratio (GPR) of 2.8 based on the maximum permissible Gross Floor Area (GFA) of approximately 122,711 sq ft, translates to a land price of...

MAY'S firm pick-up in developers' property sales has prompted consultants to predict a take-off in the second half of the year as more new launches come onstream. While the year got off to a slow start - with residential launches lagging that of last year - developers' sales survey by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for May showed developers sold 53 per cent more private homes (1,121 units) than a...

Developer sales of private homes in May rose by more than half over April as the number of new units launched also saw a sizeable increase. The 1,121 private homes, excluding executive condominiums (ECs), that developers moved in May was up by 53.1 per cent from the 732 units in the month before, according to data from URA on Monday. This was the best monthly take-up since developers sold 1,246 new...

Sales of new private homes rose to the highest in nine months in May thanks to a deluge of new launches by developers, with suburban projects proving to be the most popular. Developers sold 1,121 private homes in May, an increase of 53.1 per cent from April and 7.9 per cent from the same month last year, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday (Jun...

Ho Bee Land announced on Sunday that it has acquired a freehold 21-storey Grade A office building in London, by purchasing its owner Frasia Properties Sàrl for £650 million (approximately S$1.16 billion). Registered in Luxembourg, Frasia Properties Sàrl owns the property known as Ropemaker Place, a 21-storey Grade A office building comprising approximately 602,000 square feet of commercial...

Gloria Mansion at Pasir Panjang Road is up for en bloc sale at S$79 million, the latest to hop on the collective sale train here. The 12-storey, 31-unit hilltop apartment building is five minutes away from Haw Par Villa MRT Station and close to West Coast Highway and the Ayer Rajah Expressway. The reserve price of S$79 million translates to S$1,234 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr) based on its...