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40-unit development at River Valley put up for collective sale

One of Singapore’s first generation apartment developments from the post-colonial era has been put up for collective sale.

The 40-unit development on 402 River Valley Road in district 10 was built in the early 1960s and has a land area of over 22,000 square feet.

It is effectively a freehold site as it has a unique tenure of close to a million years.

More than 80 per cent of the owners have signed a collective sale agreement to sell the property.

They expect offer prices of between S$72 million and S$80 million or between S$1,057 and S$1,175 per square foot.

The potential buyer will have the option of redeveloping the site into a gross plot ratio of 3.08, or about 130 apartment units of about 500 square feet each.

The site has a unique tenure of 999,999 years with effect from 1962.

The tender closes at 2.30pm on June 9.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 11 May 2011

Pine Grove tender closed

The tender for Pine Grove – possibly the most expensive property to go enbloc – closed on Tuesday.

Its marketing agent Jones Lang LaSalle declined to comment if any bids were received for the tender, or when the results of the tender will be released.

Pine Grove is an 893,000 square feet property at Ulu Pandan. It went up for sale in early March.

The new development can yield a gross floor area of 1.88 million square feet. It can yield 1,500 units of 1,200 square feet each in 24-storey towers.

Including the development charge of S$460 million, the total cost of the property translates to S$2.2 billion or S$1,152 per square foot per plot ratio.

Each owner of Pine Grove’s current 28 units should pocket a tidy S$3.28 million from the sale.

If sold at the asking price, Pine Grove will beat Farrer Court, which was sold at S$1.3 billion in 2007.

Farrer Court has since been redeveloped into d’Leedon by CapitaLand.

Source : CNA – 19 Apr 2011