Gillman Heights

Where Urban Living meets Nature… The Best of Both World The Interlace is one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore. It will present a radically new approach to contemporary living in a lush tropical environment. The site is located at the junction of Alexandra Road and Depot Road and is bounded by the Ayer Rajah Expressway to the north. To the south, the Southern...

A NETWORK of apartments and recreational spaces looks set to replace the vertical blocks that used to be the landmark of Gillman Heights.  Unveiling The Interlace on Friday, CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) said they are ready to launch the project next month. Featuring 1,040 apartments on a 99-year leasehold land of 871,884 square feet, The Interlace will have units that range in size...

IN DISMISSING yesterday the last-ditch appeal by 10 minority owners against the collective sale of Gillman Heights, Singapore's highest court has set down the clear criteria, going forward, for all other privatised HUDC estates that wish to go en bloc. In a case that hinged on the completion date of the estate, the Court of Appeal ruled that the age of HUDC estates should be pegged to the date when they...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the last-ditch appeal by 10 minority owners of former HUDC estate Gillman Heights to stop its collective sale. Minority owners at the huge estate at Alexandra Road have been battling the S$548m collective sale since it was approved by the Strata Titles Board (STB) in 2007. This appeal was the last recourse for the minority owners. They had argued that STB was wrong to...

Residents of Gillman Heights condominium could learn by Wednesday if the S$548 million collective sale of their estate - to CapitaLand, Hotel Properties and two private funds - will go ahead. That is when the Court of Appeal is expected to decide whether the law governing collective sales should have applied to former Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDC) estates, such as Gillman Heights, prior...

DESPITE the recession, the saga over the Gillman Heights en bloc sale continues, as some minority owners from the 608-unit development off Alexandra Road take their fight to the highest court to block the sale. The 10 minority owners have filed for a hearing with the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn the decision made by the High Court in June that allowed the $548 million collective sale to...

AFTER three months of deliberation, Justice Choo Han Teck has delivered a 31-page judgment that - for now - signals the end of the Gillman Heights en-bloc saga. However, it was not the outcome hoped for by the 22 minority owners seeking to scupper the S$548 million deal. The judge said the specific issue was not one concerning protection for the minority, but “whether a privatised HUDC estate can...

THE new laws regulating en bloc sales that kicked in last October may mean controversial collective sale tangles are unlikely to arise again. But for Gillman Heights, where the sale process started before the rules were tweaked, the 22 minority owners’ attempt to overturn the privatised ex-HUDC estate’s sale now hinges on how the High Court rules the property’s age should be calculated. The last...

Fresh revelations about the relationship between the National University of Singapore (NUS) and purchaser Ankerite have surfaced, adding a new twist to the Gillman Heights condominium collective sale brouhaha. Acting for a group of minority owners fighting to scupper the Strata Titles Board's (STB) approval of the S$548-million sale of the property to developer CapitaLand, Senior Counsel Michael Hwang...

Capitaland is suing the owners of four units of Gillman Heights condominium for breach of contract. It is also seeking unspecified damages. The owners, who belonged to a majority group, had agreed to sell their units in a collective sale agreement with CapitaLand in February last year. CapitaLand is paying S$548 million for the 607-unit estate and the deal has also received the approval of the Strata...