Daily Archives: 30 Oct 2009

Aspial buys another residential site

ASPIAL Corporation said yesterday that it has agreed to buy a property at 26C Lorong Marzuki for $2.5 million.

The freehold site has an area of 281.1 square metres and is zoned for residential use with a 1.4 plot ratio.

Aspial previously bought two properties at 29 and 31 Lorong Melayu for $5.6 million in all.

Based on the combined maximum permissible area of around 1,795 sq m, the average purchase price for the three properties works out to about $459 per sq ft per plot ratio, inclusive of development charges.

Aspial intends to amalgamate the three plots to develop a 40-unit residential project.

The cost of the latest acquisition and development will be funded internally and through bank borrowings, Aspial said.

The transaction is not expected to have a material impact on the earnings or net tangible assets of the company in FY2009.

Source : Business Times – 30 Oct 2009

Industrial site in Jurong West for sale

THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will put a 30-year leasehold industrial site in Jurong West up for tender.

The plot is at Pioneer Road North and Soon Lee Drive, near Pioneer MRT station. It became available for sale through the reserve list on Oct 30 last year.

URA said yesterday it has received an application from a developer for the 18,958.8 sq m site, which has a maximum gross plot ratio of two.

The unnamed developer committed to bid at least $8.2 million or about $20 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr).

The site is zoned for Business 2 development – a range of clean, light and general industrial uses.

There has been healthy demand for recent industrial sites triggered for sale. For instance, a plot in Kaki Bukit Road 2 attracted 18 bids when the tender closed in August, while one at Woodlands drew eight bids when its tender closed in July.

Going by these results, Colliers International director (industrial) Tan Boon Leong expects ‘a handful’ of bids for the Pioneer Road North site. Continue reading