Category Archives: En-bloc / Collective Sales

Five Regent Court units sold for more than $650 psf

Regent Court is a 49-unit condominium located along Serangoon Road, near the Boon Keng MRT station

PDF Version Property transactions with contract dates from Sept 18 to Sep 25

There was a flurry of transactions at the 25-year-old Regent Court recently. The 49-unit freehold condominium failed to sell en bloc for $34 million, or $528 psf, after it surfaced last December that the stamp duty for the en-bloc sale agreement in 2007 had not been paid by Regent Development, a nominee of Landquest Pte Ltd. Earlier, some owners also opposed the deal as they claimed that the sales proceeds could not cover their purchase price.

As it turns out, the failed en-bloc deal has enabled owners to ride on the recent rise in property prices. In particular, Regent Court has benefited from the strong take-up rate of new mass-market projects like Airstream @ St Michael’s Road. Property buyers who had come to view Airstream’s showflat would have driven past Regent Court, which is located along Serangoon Road, the main road leading to St Michael’s Road. In August, all 70 units at Airstream, which is developed by Millennium Homes, were sold within day, via balloting at an average price of $1,100 psf. Nearby, developments such as St Michael Regency, One St Michael’s and yet-to-be-completed Beacon Heights have been sold for an average of $800 psf this year, although latest sales saw some units breach $900 psf. Continue reading

Roxy-Pacific to buy Dragon Mansion in en bloc deal

ROXY-PACIFIC Holdings has signed an agreement to buy Dragon Mansion for $100.8 million via a collective sale – some 16 per cent below the owners’ previous asking price of $120 million when the property was first put up for sale in July.

However, the deal is conditional upon obtaining agreement from an 80 per cent majority of the owners on the purchase price. BT understands that a fresh round of agreements have to be obtained as the price offered by Roxy-Pacific is below the owners’ reserve price in the collective sale agreement.

When the tender for the collective sale of Dragon Mansion was launched in July, it marked the first collective sale offering of the year. If Roxy-Pacific buys the freehold site for $100.8 million, it will be paying $863 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr) including an estimated development charge of about $400,000. The owners’ original asking price, on the other hand, translated to about $1,020 psf ppr including the development charge.

The site has a land area of about 42,000 sq ft and it is designated for residential use with a plot ratio of 2.8.

Roxy-Pacific chief executive Teo Hong Lim said that the company inked the deal to buy the site as he ‘found the price reasonable’. Continue reading