Commercial site in CBD relaunched for collective sale at $216 mil
Tracy Goh, PropNex’s head of investment and also cumulative sales, highlights the industrial zoning of the area suggests that it is exempt to additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD). Additionally, the prime workplace market remains resistant, with rents increasing 5.1% q-o-q in 1Q2023. Goh anticipates the healthy office industry as well as the ABSD increases announced as section of the recent round of cooling down steps to lead to restored financial investment interest in the commercial property section.
The location, which consists of 2 rows of commercial establishments and a piece of remnant land in between them, has a reservation price of $216 million. The rate is unmodified from the past tender kicked off on Jan 19 for the site. The tender had closed on March 22 with no bids.
The establishments are at 1 to 9 Hoe Chiang Road (odd numbers only) and also 2 to 10 Lim Teck Kim Roadway (even numbers only). Together with the portion area, the overall site has an overall approximated land area of around 18,540 sq ft. The plot is zoned for business usage and has a complete plot ratio of 5.6.
The tender for the site is going to shut on May 31 at 2pm.
Because of this, she expects the area at Hoe Chiang Roadway as well as Lim Teck Kim Road to pull attention from buyers, especially offered its location and also term. “Currently, there are no other 999-year term industrial sites for sale in the CBD,” she includes. The site is within strolling range of Tanjong Pagar MRT Station (East-West Line) as well as two upcoming terminals – Cantonment also Prince Edward Road stations on the Circle Line – which are schedule to be ready in 2026.
The reservation cost translates to an estimated land price of $2,610 psf per plot ratio (ppr) for an office development, including a land betterment charge (LBC) of $55 million. The purchaser also has the choice to redevelop the site as a resort innovation, which would put the real estate price at $2,671 psf ppr, inclusive of the estimated LBC of $61.3 million, states PropNex.
Goh includes that the site is not impacted by constraints restricting the strata subdivision of business estate in the CBD, and that will certainly offer more versatility to the purchaser to redevelop the plot right into a strata-titled office complex. “The restrictions on strata community is assumed to crimp the supply of strata-titled office space units in the urban area centre, and also it will certainly assist to uphold up the demand for and prices of such workplace.”
A 999-year leasehold business site bounded by Hoe Chiang Roadway and Lim Teck Kim Roadway in the Business district Core are going to be relaunched for cumulative sale using tender on May 17, according to a news release by marketing broker PropNex Realty.
