Singapore Office

The entire 30th floor located in Grade A office building Springleaf Tower is up for sale via an expression of interest exercise, with a guide price of S$29.5 million. This works out to about S$2,746 per square foot (sq ft) based on the strata area of 10,742 sq ft, exclusive marketing agent CBRE said on Wednesday. There will be no additional buyer's stamp duty or seller's stamp duty. Springleaf Tower,...

A freehold strata office floor at Sim Lim Tower in Jalan Besar has been put up for sale by tender with an asking price of S$15 million, marketing agent Edmund Tie & Company (ET&Co) said on Monday. Located on the 15th storey of the 17-storey building, the property spans the entire floor and has a total area of about 778 square metres (sq m) or 8,374 square feet (sq ft). It offers a 360-degree panoramic...

Rentals for Grade A office buildings in Singapore's Central Business District (CBD) are expected to rise by 8 per cent this year, and 5 per cent in 2020, amid tight supply and high pre-commitments, according to a report by Colliers International. The real estate services and investment management firm also expects new supply in 2019-2021 to average 614,000 sq ft (57,000 sq m) per annum, or 2 per cent of...

Stealth marketing is going on at 71 Robinson Road, which was last transacted in April 2008 at a then-record price of S$3,125 per square foot. The Business Times understands that an expression-of-interest exercise to find a buyer for the 15-storey office block began without publicity in April, with the appointed marketing agents, CBRE and JLL, approaching a small pool of potential buyers. Submissions...

After a three-year redevelopment, Funan is set to reopen its doors to shoppers on Jun 28, developer CapitaLand announced in a press release on Monday (Jun 3). More than 180 brands, including new-to-market brands, new concept stores and flagships, will feature at Funan. Among the mall’s new tenants is tech company Dyson, whose first standalone store in Singapore will be dedicated to its Supersonic...

Three floors at The Octagon, a 25-storey freehold office building on 105 Cecil Street, have been launched for bulk sale by tender on Monday. The prime ground floor retail unit and two office floors have a total indicative price of S$43 million, which works out to S$3,500 psf for the retail floor and S$2,450 psf for the office floors, according to sole marketing agent Cushman & Wakefield. Located on...

Singapore has been ranked among Asia’s top commercial real estate locations with attractive submarkets for technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) occupiers, according to a research report by property services firm Colliers International. In particular, the Shenton Way/Tanjong Pagar district was rated top in Singapore for TMT firms and flexible workspace operators due to its "excellent...

Oxley Holdings will complete asset enhancement initiative (AEI) works on Chevron House and expects to achieve final completion of the sale of the 32-storey Raffles Place commercial building no later than the first quarter of 2020. It will also divest the retail and banking units "as soon as practicable, taking into consideration market conditions" but will do so before the final completion, the...

Spaces, owned by flexible workspace provider IWG, has opened two new locations in Singapore, at TripleOne Somerset and Clarke Quay. This brings the number of locations it has to four, with plans to open an additional two more by year-end. The TripleOne Somerset branch has a blue-chip tenant list which includes luxury and lifestyle brands such as Gucci, Casio and Samsonite. It spans over 35,000 square...

The twin office blocks of CapitaLand's revamped Funan integrated development has garnered 98 per cent pre-leasing commitment of its total office net lettable area (NLA) of 214,000 square feet (sq ft). The CapitaLand Mall Trust-owned (CMT) Funan secured the pre-leasing commitment of about 210,000 sq ft of its NLA when it got its Temporary Occupation Permit in April. Funan’s office tenants, which...