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Close neighbours seek en bloc sale

Mr Kirpalani, his wife Karishma and daughters Simran (left), 13, and Kajal, 11 in their bungalow. They, along with two other owners are selling their four strata bungalows, which sit on 24,443 sq ft of land in Bournemouth Road in Katong. The asking price is $24 million to $26 million. — ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA

They are close neighbours and their children play together every day.

Which is why the sellers in the latest en bloc initiative hope that a large family or extended families, rather than a developer, will pick up their four strata bungalows for $24 million to $26 million.

They sit on 24,443 sq ft of land in Bournemouth Road in Katong, one of the biggest plots in the area earmarked for detached houses.

‘It was a purely collective decision,’ said Mr Andy Kirpalani, 39, one of the three owners, on the move to cash in on the current property boom.

Originally called Sayang Villa, the gated compound used to be owned by a family with several siblings living in the four houses.

The current owners, all Singaporeans, did not know one another when they bought the units, each with a built-up area of 4,200 sq ft. They bought the houses between 21/2 and five years ago. Continue reading

CapLand to unveil 2 more home launches

SINGAPORE’S largest property developer CapitaLand is set to roll out two more residential launches this year – the 1,040-unit The Interlace on the site of the former Gillman Heights, and a 165-apartment luxury project in Cairnhill Road on the site of the former Char Yong Gardens.

The company yesterday unveiled the design for the The Interlace, which it is developing with Hotel Properties Ltd. The project will cost about $1.4 billion all up, including the $548 million – or $363 per sq ft of potential gross floor area – paid for Gillman Heights in 2007

Prices could start from about $700,000 for a two-bedroom apartment, CapitaLand said. The project will be launched next month.

The Interlace was designed by Ole Scheeren, a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – the firm behind the design of the distinct 54-storey China Central Television Station headquarters in Beijing. For The Interlace, Mr Scheeren wanted to break away from the standard kind of residential project in Singapore comprising a cluster of isolated, vertical towers.

Instead, the design for The Interlace explores a new take on tropical living with an expansive and interconnected network of communal spaces. Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six stories tall, will be stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale courtyards. The interlocking blocks will resemble a ‘vertical village’ with cascading sky gardens and private and public roof terraces. Continue reading