RENTS and prices of commercial space in Singapore fell by a faster clip in 2016 compared to 2015, with office vacancies shooting up to a four-year high since Q1 2012. Latest data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released on Thursday showed that rents of office and retail space slipped over 8 per cent in 2016. Office rents slipped for the seventh straight quarter by 1.8 per cent in the...
Retail Space
Macquarie, Blackstone and Frasers Centrepoint have been shortlisted for the purchase of Guthrie and Lee Kim Tah's space in Jurong Point mall. The Business Times understands that Macquarie and Blackstone have each offered about S$2.2 billion - crossing S$3,350 per square foot (psf) on the 658,000 square foot commercial net lettable area owned by the equal joint-venture between Lee Kim Tah Holdings and...
The total value of big-ticket retail properties that have changed hands so far this quarter has surged to S$731.3 million, up 22.4 per cent from S$597.4 million in the preceding quarter and more than double the S$320.3 million in Q4 last year. This tally as at Dec 8, compiled by Savills Singapore, was based on deals of at least S$10 million originating from the private sector. Perennial Real Estate...
Retail space is filling up at Bukit Panjang’s upcoming shopping centre called Hillion Mall, announced Sim Lian Group on Friday (Nov 25). It said in a press release that 90 percent of the approximately 174,730 sq ft of lettable area has been taken up by about 100 retail as well as food and beverage (F&B) tenants. There are five anchor tenants - NTUC FairPrice, PCF Sparkletots Preschool, Amore...
Unfazed by the sluggish local retail conditions, Toys “R” Us is expanding its foothold in Singapore, with plans to unveil two more stores in the coming months. One will be slated for opening before Christmas and another by early-2017, country manager Raymond Burt told Channel NewsAsia on Wednesday (Nov 2) at the launch of its newly-refurbished flagship store at VivoCity. That will bring the number...
Department store John Little will close its last remaining outlet at Plaza Singapura by the end of December this year, the Robinsons Group announced in a statement on Saturday (Nov 5). The decision was made after evaluating the relevancy and sustainability of its brick-and-mortar business, said the Robinsons Group, adding that John Little will instead evolve as a brand into a pop-up format, which it...
SHOPPING-MALL owner Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) has inked deals to buy all 10 strata-titled retail units at the Yishun 10 cinema complex from Bonvests Holdings for S$37.75 million, the trust said in a Singapore Exchange (SGX) filing on Friday evening. The trust manager's chief executive officer, Chew Tuan Chiong, said in a statement Yishun 10 was next to FCT's Northpoint shopping centre and...
A PRIME commercial-zoned piece of vacant land - where the former Queenstown cinema and bowling centre once stood - has been sold for S$78 million. The price for the site, which has a balance lease term of 57 years, is understood to work out to about S$756 per square foot of potential gross floor area. Located a stone's throw from Queenstown MRT Station, the site is at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue...
DATA released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) shows that its retail property rental index fell 1.5 per cent in the third quarter of this year over the preceding quarter - a smaller decline compared with the 3.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter drop in Q2 2016. URA's retail property price index eased 0.6 per cent q-o-q in Q3 2016, after sliding 3.1 per cent in Q2 2016. The islandwide vacancy...
ONE has to concede that Orchard Road is not the shopping belt it once was during its halcyon days. No longer do you see throngs lining the 2.2-kilometre boulevard, not even on weekends. Once regarded as the shopping and entertainment destination for Singaporeans and tourists alike, are Orchard Road's glory days dwindling? To better understand the wane of such a key shopping destination, it is worth...