Category Archives: Property Price

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

Private homes still seeing high demand

Cooling-off measures had little impact on weekend’s sales

DEMAND for private homes remained strong over the weekend despite measures announced by the Government last week to take the froth off the market.

Property developers CapitaLand and Hotel Properties said yesterday that 233 units – or 65 per cent – of 360 units launched at The Interlace project, at the former Gillman Heights site in Alexandra Road, were sold in the past week.

A wide range of units from two-roomers to penthouses were sold at a price range of $850 per sq ft (psf) to $1,150 psf.

Guocoland, which held a preview launch of its freehold 119-unit Elliot At The East Coast project over the weekend, sold 45 – or 75 per cent – of 60 units launched at an average price of $970 psf.

At the upper-mid segment of the market, buyers snapped up another 5 per cent, or 14 units, at Singapore Land’s 289-unit Trizon At Mount Sinai over the weekend.

The project, at the site of the former Himiko Court, is now 70 per cent sold at a price range of $1,300 to $1,500 psf.

The long weekend’s sales seem to indicate that buying interest has not been dampened by the Government’s moves to cool the market, which include scrapping the interest absorption scheme (IAS) and restarting confirmed list land sales in the first half of next year. The IAS allowed buyers to put a down payment and defer the bulk of the purchase payment until the project was completed. Continue reading