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Large freehold condo site sold for $158m

In what is one of the biggest freehold condo site deals in the last 12 months, Lee Tat Development has sold a 207,000 sq ft plot at the end of Jalan Senang and Lengkong Tujoh, off Sims Avenue, for $158 million.

The buyer is a joint venture involving Hoi Hup and Malaysia’s Sunway group.

The purchase price works out to about $445 per square foot of potential gross floor area, including an estimated development charge of about $36 million.

The vacant plot is zoned for residential use with a 2.1 plot ratio (ratio of maximum potential gross floor area to land area) and a 12-storey maximum height under Master Plan 2008.

Credo Real Estate brokered the sale through a private treaty deal.

‘According to our records, this sale could mark the first large-scale freehold condominium site sold in almost two years, that is, since the tail-end of the active en bloc sale market of 2007,’ Credo’s managing director Karamjit Singh said.

‘Transactions of large private residential redevelopment sites belonging to a single owner are very rare,’ he added. Continue reading

Serangoon Ave 3 site sold at $221.21m: URA

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has awarded the tender for the residential site at Serangoon Avenue 3 to Intrepid Investments Pte Ltd.

The company submitted the highest bid of $221.21 million (US$158.84 million) in the tender for the site.

The 13,877.2 square metre (sqm) residential site has a maximum permissable gross floor area of 38,857 sqm.

Source : Business Times – 9 Oct 2009