Enbloc

In a cooling en bloc market, Minbu Villa, a freehold residential development in Novena, is going up for tender at S$145.8 million again, but could see the reserve price lowered if 80 per cent of the owners agree. Its earlier attempt this year was launched in March and closed on April 17 without a winning bidder. This time, more than 60 per cent of the owners by share value and strata area have...

Mandarin Gardens, a 99-year leasehold condominium, recently raised its asking price by nearly 12.5 per cent from S$2.479 billion to S$2.788 billion, after it was discovered that the land that the residential development is situated on had been undervalued by over S$300 million. This came after the Collective Sales Committee (CSC) carried out a check of the property's development baseline record. The...

Waterloo Apartments has been sold through a collective sale for S$131.1 million to a wholly owned subsidiary of Fragrance Group. It intends to redevelop the 999-year leasehold property, which has a land area of about 14,369 sq ft, into a hotel. The property is at 64 Waterloo Street in the Bras Basah/Bugis area. Outline planning permission (OPP) has been obtained for a change in the property's...

Despite the cooling en bloc market, owners of Mandarin Gardens condominium have raised their asking price for the 99-year leasehold development in East Coast to S$2.79 billion — up from its original price of S$2.48 billion. This will see it leapfrogging the previous high set by Pandan Valley’s S$2.6 billion asking price. Mr Leonard Jayamohan, the spokesperson for Mandarin Gardens’ Collective...

The iconic step-terraced Golden Mile Complex building could be spared from the wrecking ball - even if it finds an en bloc buyer at its reserve price of S$800 million. An outline application has been submitted to retain the existing 16-storey building and add a new block next to the building, subject to authorities' approval, marketing agent Edmund Tie & Company (ET&Co) revealed in its tender...

The iconic Golden Mile Complex is deemed to have heritage value and authorities are in the process of exploring options to facilitate conservation, said the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday (Oct 31). This comes even as the development tries to find a buyer, with the collective sale tender launched on Wednesday at a reserve price of S$800 million. The building may not be demolished,...

Elias Green is the latest condominium to hit the en bloc market in search of a buyer. According to PropNex Realty's Richard Hau, the owners of the 419-unit Pasir Ris condo will launch a public tender for the site on Monday with a S$780 million reserve price. This means that the owners of the 516,877 sq ft development could each walk away with S$1.7 million to just below S$2 million. The condo,...

The Spanish Village condominium in Farrer Road has been put up for collective sale for the second time in recent months, with no change to its $882 million guide price. The 226-unit freehold property in affluent District 10 made its first attempt to sell en bloc in June but had no takers. Mr Tan Chun Ming, senior director of investment advisory at market agent Edmund Tie & Company, said the site has...

Singapore residential-property investment sales have fallen after the latest round of housing curbs put the brakes on en bloc redevelopment deals. Just two redevelopment sales worth S$353 million were completed in the third quarter, down from S$3.8 billion of transactions the previous quarter, according to data compiled by Cushman & Wakefield. That pushed total real estate investment sales down 42...

The marketing agent for Tulip Garden, Colliers International, has quashed speculation that the S$906 million collective sale of the Farrer Road project has hit a speed bump. Colliers managing director Tang Wei Leng said: "There is no basis to the market speculation. The Tulip Garden collective sale is proceeding and we are working towards the completion of sale." There was market talk on the sale...