Office Space

Tightening vacancies have driven up Singapore prime office rents in 2018. This saw average CBD (central business district) Grade A office rent rising by 2.4 per cent to S$9.43 per square foot per month (psf pm) from Q3 to Q4 2018, bringing the full year rental growth to 14.9 per cent, Colliers International's data showed. This is the fastest annual growth since 2010, where rents rebounded by 22 per cent...

Rents of office space in the central region of Singapore rose by 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018 over the previous three months - a slower pace of gain compared with the 2.5 per cent rise in the third quarter, figures from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Friday. For the whole of 2018, the rental index rose 7.4 per cent, compared with the increase of 0.4 per cent in...

Google is planning to expand in Singapore, going by market talk that it plans to boost its real estate footprint on the island. The tech giant is understood to be in advanced talks to lease close to 400,000 sq ft at Alexandra Technopark, which is next to Mapletree Business City II, where Google occupies about 500,000 sq ft. Market watchers note that Mapletree Business City II, which has a total net...

Global flexible workspace provider IWG has leased over 20,600 sq ft of space at Capitol Singapore, and will launch its premium co-working space brand No18 there. The co-working space will be the brand’s flagship facility in Asia, and its first location in the region, when it commences operations in September this year. The new space in Singapore will be on the second floor of Capitol Singapore and...

ARA Asset Management and British property group Chelsfield have jointly acquired Manulife Centre at 51 Bras Basah Road for around S$555.5 million. That's about S$2,305 per sq ft for the 11-storey commercial building with a net lettable area of over 241,000 sq ft. The vendors are City Developments (CDL) and Alpha Asia Macro Trends Fund II (AAMTF II), which is managed by Alpha Investment...

Keppel Reit is selling a 20 per cent stake in Ocean Financial Centre to Allianz Real Estate for S$537.3 million, but will retain a majority 79.9-per cent interest in the property, its manager Keppel Reit Management said on Friday. This is the German insurer’s property investment arm’s first core office investment in Singapore. Independent valuer Cushman and Wakefield VHS had valued the property...

Freehold commercial property Golden Wall Centre has been sold en bloc for S$276.2 million to City View Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Worldwide Hotels, which owns and manages hotel chains such as Hotel 81. The amount was higher than the reserve price of S$260 million, which was little changed from what the strata unit owners wanted in their first attempt at a collective sale in 2016. At...

GuocoLand Limited today announced the groundbreaking of Guoco Midtown, unveiling the name of the prime site that is set to rejuvenate the Beach Road district. It will provide a new epicentre for this side of Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD). Guoco Midtown is expected to be completed by the first half of 2022. Nestled within the City Hall office micromarket, Guoco Midtown will be the final...

Colliers International’s data shows average CBD premium and Grade A rental value rose 4.3 per cent to S$9.20 per square foot per month in the third quarter of 2018 over the previous quarter. The rental figure for Q3 2018 reflects an increase of 12.1 per cent from Q4 last year. The property consulting group is forecasting a full-year rise of 14 per cent – the first double-digit annual growth since 2011...

Merchants Building at 76 South Bridge Road, has been put up for collective sale by tender with a reserve price of S$23.5 million. The seven-storey freehold commercial building has a land area of 104.5 square metres. Under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2014, it is zoned “commercial” with a gross plot ratio of 4.2. The property is located on an envelope control site, within the...