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Aspial buys another residential site

Posted on 30 Oct 2009 | Comments Off

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

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Trump card for CapitaLand in CMA

Posted on 29 Oct 2009 | Comments Off

CAPITALAND’S third-quarter report card released this week was a marked improvement from its showing in the first two quarters of this year. Still, the $167.2 million net profit that it achieved for the first nine months of this year is a far cry from the $1.18 billion in the same period last year.

However, plans to float a stake in its integrated shopping centre business under CapitaMalls Asia (CMA) by the year-end could add handsomely to CapitaLand’s fourth-quarter and full-year bottom lines.

CMA has a net asset value of $5.3 billion but assuming that its assets are valued at 1.5 to two times book value during the initial public offering (IPO), the total market worth of CMA would be about $8-10 billion. If CapitaLand floats a stake of 30 per cent, the pre-tax profit that it stands to book from the IPO could be in the order of $800 million to $1.4 billion.

CapitaLand’s management has indicated that the board may consider recommending a special dividend to shareholders following CMA’s flotation.

UBS Investment Research, in a recent paper, estimates that assuming an $8 billion valuation for CMA and a 30 per cent free float, the special dividend would work out to 27 cents per CapitaLand share if it decides to pay out 50 per cent of the IPO proceeds, and 54 cents per share assuming a 100 per cent payout. Continue reading →