Daily Archives: 23 Sep 2009

Upper Thomson Rd site triggered from reserve list

Urban Redevelopment Authority said on Wednesday it has accepted an application for another site on the government’s reserve list . The latest 99-year leasehold condo plot is at Upper Thomson Road.

The minimum bid price that the successful applicant – who was not named – has undertaken to offer is $82 million, which works out to $174 per square foot per plot ratio.

This is the fifth site that can be developed into private housing that has been triggered from the government’s reserve list since July.

The tender for the latest plot, which is opposite the Singapore Island Country Club, will be launched in about two weeks. The tender period will be about four weeks.

Last week National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said the government will restart land sales in the confirmed list as well as replenish the reserve list in first half 2010. Sites in the reserve list are launched for sale only upon successful application by a developer who commits to offer a minimum price acceptable to the state. Confirmed list sites, on the other hand, are launched according to a prestated schedule and hence could translate to more launches of property projects.

Source : Business Times – 23 Sep 2009

AIG takes 5 floors at new Shenton Way tower

IN one of the bigger office leasing deals in recent months, AIG is understood to have leased five floors or about 60,000 square feet at the recently completed South Tower of 78 Shenton Way. CB Richard Ellis is said to have brokered the deal.

AIG is understood to be relocating operations from leased premises at two adjacent buildings on Martin Road in the Mohamed Sultan Road area to the South Tower.

These operations include the entity currently known as American Home Assurance Company. BT understands that the leasing deal involved some ’structuring’. Among other things, 78 Shenton Way’s owner, Germany’s Commerz Grundbesitz Investmentgesellschaf (CGI), is said to have taken over AIG’s remaining lease term at Martin Road.

CGI also owns 71 Robinson Road, which it bought in April last year while still under construction for $743.75 million, reflecting a record price of $3,125 psf of net lettable area. The seller was a joint venture between Lehman Brothers and Kajima Overseas Asia.

Source : Business Times – 23 Sep 2009