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City Dev buys partner’s half-share in Futura JV

Elad Group’s stake in Leonie Hill condo firm amounts to $35.1 million

CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) has bought partner Elad Group’s half-share in their equal joint-venture company that owns the Futura condo site at Leonie Hill in Singapore, for about $35.1 million.

Futura: City Dev and Elad paid $287.3 million for the freehold residential property in October 2006

The two bought the freehold residential property for $287.3 million in October 2006 at $1,179 per square foot per plot ratio.

The cash consideration for the half-share, which was arrived at on a willing buyer, willing seller basis, represents a discounted value of the aggregate capital contributions of Elad Group Singapore to the joint-venture company, K-El Sun Investments, CDL said in a statutory filing with Singapore Exchange yesterday evening.

‘Elad remains our partner in the South Beach consortium,’ a CDL spokeswoman said in response to BT’s queries on the status of the group’s other joint venture involving US-based Elad Group, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva.

In December last year, BT reported that Elad was said to be looking for buyers for its one-third stake in the South Beach project as well as its half-share in Futura.

CDL teamed up with Elad and Dubai World to clinch the plum South Beach site opposite Raffles Hotel at a state tender in 2007 during the property bull run for almost $1.69 billion.

The three hold equal shares in the joint venture.

In November last year, CDL announced a deferment of the project’s construction until construction costs ease. The project was originally slated for completion by 2012, although the consortium has up to 2016 to complete the development under the sales terms for the 99-year leasehold plot. Continue reading

233 units of CapitaLand’s Interlace condominium project sold

CapitaLand said on Tuesday 233 units were sold in the preview sales of its Interlace condominium project, which will be built on the former Gillman Heights site.

The prices for the 360 units that were released for sale ranged from S$850 to S$1,150 per square foot.

The developer said nearly two thirds were sold, including two, three, and four-bedroom apartments and penthouses.

Located on an 872,000 square foot site at the junction of Depot Road and Alexandra Road, the 99-year leasehold development has a total of 1,040 homes. The apartments range from 800 to some 5,900 square feet.

CapitaLand is the lead project manager for The Interlace, which it is developing jointly with two other shareholders, including Hotel Properties.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 22 Sep 2009