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Laguna Park could go at 20% discount to initial tender price

Home owners at the Laguna Park condominium in Marine Parade are now faced with the choice of selling their homes at an average of 20 per cent lower than their initial asking price.

This comes after a failed tender earlier this month.

Then, the site received a bid from an Indonesian-owned, locally incorporated company of S$1.728 billion, but a downpayment could not be made in time.

Since then, the collective sale committee has circulated a letter informing owners of a new potential selling price of S$967 million.

Under en bloc sale regulations, 80 per cent of owners need to vote in favour of this price tag before the sale can proceed.

When Laguna Park opened for tender in September, most owners stood to gain around S$2.1 million to S$2.3 million each. Penthouse owners would have gotten between S$3.5 million and S$4.1 million each. Continue reading

Will Laguna Park owners settle for less?

They mull selling units at $1 billion, but some want to wait for market pick-up

After the failed bid, owners met yesterday to discuss the fate of their estate. TODAY FILE PHOTO

When they put their sea-facing estate up for collective sale early last month, with the economy barely on the track to recovery, the $1.2 billion reserve price raised eyebrows.

Now with their bid having failed, owners of units at Laguna Park are adjusting their expectations and considering selling at a lower price.

The new target: Reportedly between $950 million and $1 billion.

The development’s marketing agent Credo Real Estate said residents are likely to receive letters advising them on the situation in two or three days.

The revised price, however, is still a “sizeable amount”, felt ERA Asia-Pacific associate director Eugene Lim. Continue reading