Property developer Soilbuild Group has been awarded the tender for an industrial site at Yishun Avenue 6 with a bid of some S$29.3 million. The 153,485-square foot site has a maximum gross floor area of nearly 384,000 square feet. The 60-year leasehold site can be used for clean and light industries and warehouses. Soilbuild estimates the total development cost including land at about S$75 million to...
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SOILBUILD Group Holdings submitted the highest bid for an industrial site at Yishun Avenue 6 in a government tender, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday. There were five bids for the 1.43 hectare plot, which was offered for sale on a 60-year lease. Soilbuild's $29.29 million bid, which works out to $76 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr), was 4 per cent higher than the second...
DEVELOPERS have bid aggressively for a 60-year leasehold industrial site at Yishun Avenue 6 (Parcel 1). Seven parties had expressed interest by the time the tender closed yesterday. OKH Management put in a top bid of $27.2 million, or $71 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr). The is 2.4 times the trigger price of $11.5 million, or $30 psf ppr, that an unnamed developer had committed to pay in...
Developer OKH Management has placed the top bid of S$27.2 million for the industrial site at Yishun Avenue 6. This is slightly more than double the minimum bid of S$11.5 million committed by an unnamed developed on March 8 this year. The top bid of S$27.2 million translates to about S$71 per square foot per plot ratio. The breakeven cost for this development is estimated to be between S$250 per square...
UNITED Engineers (UE) has acquired an industrial property that it will use as its headquarters in Ang Mo Kio Street 64 for $25.18 million. It will be centralising most of its business operations - including its headquarters currently located in UE Square in the River Valley area - at the new property by the end of the year. The group will then rent out its prime headquarters space at UE Square, which...
UNITED Engineers (UE) has bought two industrial buildings at Ang Mo Kio for about $25 million, as part of plans to grow its portfolio in build-to-suit properties. Motorola owned the two buildings - Motorola Innovation Centre and Motorola Excellence Centre. They will collectively be known as UE BizHub Central after the ownership change. The two complexes have a total gross floor area (GFA) of 378,426 sq...
Construction firm United Engineers has acquired an industrial property in Ang Mo Kio for about S$25 million. The property to be renamed UE BizHub Central comprises two buildings. It has a seven-storey and a four-storey building linked by a skybridge with a total gross floor area of about 378,000 square feet. United Engineers plans to further modernise and expand the property's gross floor area to up to...
Units of a new development located in the Kaki Bukit Industrial Estate are being put up for sale. The development, called "First East Centre", sits on the first site that is zoned for "Business 2" use and can be used for most trades including engineering and manufacturing. First East Centre, developed by KNG Development, is a four-storey ramp-up industrial building located at 10 Kaki Bukit Road 2. The...
Singapore's industrial and office property markets are showing signs of improvement. Property consultancy DTZ Research on Wednesday said that islandwide office occupancy improved in the first quarter of this year. The average islandwide office occupancy rate rose 0.7 percentage-point on-quarter to 92.4 per cent. DTZ said the improvement in occupancy rate was due to an increase in demand. There was also...
Average monthly gross rent for hi-tech industrial space up 1.6% in Q1 Better days may be ahead for landlords of industrial space, with rents having stopped falling for some properties and even rising slightly for others. According to DTZ, the average monthly gross rent for hi-tech industrial space, including that at business and science parks, was $3.15 per sq ft in the first quarter of 2010. This is a...