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Wangz Hotel at Outram Road sold for S$46m

Wangz Hotel, the distinctive barrel-shaped aluminium-clad building at the corner of Outram and Tiong Bahru roads, is being sold for S$46 million. This works out to S$1.12 million per room for the six-storey freehold boutique 41-room hotel. It opened in late 2009. The hotel is being sold by Glastech Pte Ltd, controlled by Wang Kwang Yu, his wife Kwee Lee Chien (daughter of Pontiac Land Group founder...

Freehold commercial corner development site near Farrer Park MRT station up for sale

A freehold commercial corner development site with a 40-metre wide dual frontage along Serangoon Road and Petain Road has just been launched for sale via an Expression of Interest (EOI) exercise by exclusive marketing agent, JLL. The corner development site consist of 450 Serangoon Road and 452 Serangoon Road. The site occupies a prominent corner location with a combined land area of 4,984 sf....

CapitaLand-CDL tie-up win Sengkang Central bid

A CapitaLand and City Developments Ltd (CDL) tie-up has clinched a commercial and residential site in Sengkang Central. Their winning bid of S$777.78 million works out to S$923.59 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr) for the 99-year leasehold site next to Buangkok MRT Station. In a joint release on Thursday evening, CapitaLand and CDL said their joint venture will transform the 3.7-hectare site –...

July’s new home sales soar 55% to 16-month high on panic buying

Private home sales by developers in Singapore surged 55 per cent in July from a year earlier to a 16-month high, boosted by panic buyers who rushed to snap up properties the night before new cooling measures took effect early last month. Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), developers sold 1,724 units in July, compared with 1,112 units in the same month a year earlier, Urban Redevelopment Authority...

Sales of new private homes surge in July on panic-buying

More than 1,720 new private homes were sold in July, a 55-per-cent jump compared with the same period last year and almost thrice the number sold in June. These were the latest figures released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday (Aug 15). The surge was largely due to the last-minute buying frenzy on July 5, when buyers rushed in to snap up residential units to avoid the...

Singapore home prices won’t pop without migrants

If Sherman Kwek sounds annoyed, he has his reasons — 2.9 million square feet worth of reasons. That figure, equating to 270,000 square metres, is the total saleable area of apartments almost ready to hit the market on the books of City Developments Ltd, the Singapore developer controlled by the family of billionaire Kwek Leng Beng, who handed the keys of his empire this year to son Sherman. The...

Developers cut prices after latest property curbs

In a bid to attract more buyers, some property developers are lowering the prices of their residential projects by about 5 to 10 per cent after the latest round of cooling measures took effect on July 6. Daintree Residence, a 99-year leasehold condominium which opened for sale on July 28, was selling at an average price of S$1,710 psf, which is 5 per cent lower than the earlier announced price of...

Tekka Place to feature 80 shops and 320-unit serviced residence

Tekka Place, a redevelopment of the former The Verge shopping mall in Little India, is set to open in late 2019. The integrated mall is developed by Singapore-listed construction and property development company, Lum Chang Holdings, and a fund managed by LaSalle Investment Management Asia. The new development will comprise a 10-storey main block and a seven-storey annex block with rooftop deck....

Kingsley Mansion for sale at reserve price of S$45.5m

Owners of Kingsley Mansion are launching an en bloc sale by tender for the 18-unit condominium in the Balestier area with a reserve price of S$45.5 million. The reserve price for the 14,350 square foot freehold site translates to a land rate of S$1,132 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr), with no development charge payable on its gross plot ratio of 2.8 times or the maximum permissible gross floor area...

JadeScape at Shunfu Road

JadeScape is proudly designed by Paul Noritaka Tange of Tange Associates who is an Award Winning and World-Renowned Architect. This nature-inspired development will comprise of 7 residential towers of 21 to 23 storey high and offers a broad selection of unit mix ranging from one bedroom to five bedrooms. All layouts are meticulously planned and designed to ensure efficiency and functionality, Home...

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