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Casa Merah apartments breach $800 psf mark

When casa merah was first launched in  April 2007, the apartments were sold for  between $600 psf and $700 psf along Marine Parade Road.

PDF Version Property transactions with contract dates from Sept 11 to Sep 18

Apartments at Casa Merah changed hands at above $800 psf in the secondary market between Sept 11 and 18. The surge in price was probably because of the successful launch of neighbouring Optima @ Tanah Merah in August. The new development, which will sit next to Casa Merah along Tanah Merah Kechil Avenue, saw apartments sold at above the $800 psf level.

As at end-August, all the units at The Optima were sold except for three penthouses. The apartments fetched between $603 and $1,071 psf, according to caveats lodged with URA Realis. The 99-year leasehold Optima, which has a total of 297 units, is a joint-venture development by Hong Leong Group and Japan’s Mitsui Fudosan.  The most recent sale completed on Aug 31 was for a unit measuring 969 sq ft, with two bedrooms and a study. The apartment on the 11th floor was sold for $851,100, or $879 psf. The highest transacted psf price for the Optima was for a one-bedroom apartment measuring 484 sq ft, also on the 11th floor — it sold for $1,061 psf. Continue reading

CDL sells over 200 units at Hundred Trees

SALES at City Developments Ltd’s (CDL) Hundred Trees condo in the West Coast area crossed the 200-unit mark by 6pm yesterday.

MORE TO COME
The developer will release more units to cater to the ‘overwhelming response’ to the West Coast project

As at that time, CDL had released 280 of the total 396 units in the 956-year leasehold condo, the developer said in a release yesterday evening.

Earlier yesterday afternoon, CDL said that it had released a selected number of units for soft launch at an average price of $895 per square foot (psf).

However, BT understands that the above pricing was for the initial batch of about 150 units released on Thursday for a preview to former owners of Hong Leong Garden Condominium (from whom CDL bought the site for the project), CDL staff and a few special guests.

A further 130 units released yesterday were probably priced slightly higher, market watchers reckoned.

CDL is also offering interest absorption scheme (IAS) in exchange for a 2.5 per cent price premium. CDL did not provide a breakdown on how many buyers picked up their units on IAS.

Although IAS was scrapped on Sept 14, a developer can still offer the scheme if before that date, it had entered into an agreement on this with a partner bank and had already offered units in the development for sale under IAS before Sept 14.

BT understands that Hundred Trees’ 200-unit sales figure as at 6pm yesterday includes nearly 40 units sold on Thursday. All 22 one-bedroom units have been sold and the two-bedders are substantially sold too. Continue reading