Singapore Retail

Sim Lim Square on Rochor Canal Road has been put up for collective sale via public tender at a reserve price of S$1.25 billion on April 29, marketing agent SLP International Property Consultants announced on Monday. The retail strata mall, one of Singapore’s largest IT shopping centres, comprises six floors and two basements, housing 492 commercial units. It sits on a 99-year leasehold site with a...

Office space rental in the central region of Singapore slipped by 0.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2019 from the previous three months, figures from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Friday. The drop was in contrast with the increase of 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018. This was the first quarter-on-quarter decline in office rents since the second quarter of 2017. The...

Perennial Real Estate Holdings (Perennial) and its consortium of investors, including Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), are selling their stakes in Chinatown Point Mall for S$520 million in total, the listed companies announced on Monday morning. This includes the divestment of their entire interests in the retail mall, and four strata office units in Chinatown Point, an integrated development located in...

The Marina Mandarin Singapore and parts of the Marina Square complex are changing hands for S$675.3 million, under a deal last Friday involving firms linked to tycoon Wee Cho Yaw. United Industrial Corp (UIC) is buying out Finnegan Investments and Mackmoor, as well as mainboard-listed OUE. The whole Marina Square mall will then be owned jointly by UIC and parent UOL Group. UIC is coughing up that sum...

A freehold four-storey commercial building with attic at 118 Joo Chiat Road has just been launched for sale via an Expression of Interest (EOI) exercise by exclusive marketing agent, JLL. The 4-storey building enjoys excellent visibility with a wide 22-metre frontage. It sits on a 4,686 sf site and has a Gross Floor Area (GFA) of approximately 18,571 sq ft. Under the Master Plan 2014, the site is zoned...

Sim Lim Square will be put up for collective sale, after securing the requisite agreement of at least 80 per cent of its owners. The mall, located on Rochor Canal Road, will go on sale at S$1.3 billion, its sales committee head Vikas Gupta told TODAY on Wednesday (March 20) evening. He disclosed that 80.82 per cent of owners by share value and 81.43 per cent of owners by strata area voted for the...

Liang Court mall - famous at its peak as a Japanese expat haunt and for the Daimaru department store and supermarket - is expected to be sold to new owners for S$400 million. According to The Business Times, a put-and-call option agreement has been entered into between the owner, an entity linked to PGIM Real Estate, and CapitaLand and City Developments Ltd (CDL). CapitaLand's listed unit Ascott...

US-based property fund manager AEW has sold Rivervale Mall in Sengkang for S$230 million, BT understands. The buyer is SC Capital Partners, a Singapore-based private equity real estate firm chaired by Suchad Chiaranussati, who is married to a niece of property and hotel tycoon Kwek Leng Beng. The price works out to S$2,833 per square foot based on Rivervale Mall's net lettable area (NLA) of 81,193 sq...

A pair of freehold two-storey conservation shophouses at 69 and 71 Kampong Bahru Road is up for sale. The shophouses, which come with attics, occupy a land area of 2,343 square feet and have an estimated gross floor area of 5,947 sq ft. It is zoned "commercial" under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's 2014 Master Plan, which means foreigners are eligible to buy the property. In addition, there is...

Rents for retail space in the central region of Singapore rose by 1.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018 over the previous three months - contrasting with the drop of 1.2 per cent in the third quarter, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Friday. For the whole of 2018, retail rents weakened by 1.0 per cent, after sliding 4.7 per cent in 2017. URA's price index...