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Time is ripe for Quayside Isle launch

Recent months have seen a return of buying interests to Sentosa Cove. Last week, SC Global announced that its residential project, Seven Palms Sentosa Cove sold 6 out of the 10 released units at an average selling price of S$3,300 psf. In the sub-sale and resale markets, prices of other condominium projects on Sentosa have also recovered firmly in 2H09. We think that the time is ripe for City Developments (CDL) to launch its Quayside Isle Collection project soon. While we previously assumed a bear-case scenario pricing of S$1,400 psf for the project, we are now raising our selling price estimate to S$1,900 psf. As such, our projected profit contribution from the residential component of the Quayside Isle Collection project has now been raised from S$209.7m to S$386.2m. Our fair value of CDL has now been raised to S$9.83. We maintain our HOLD rating on CDL.

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Luxury apartment sector feels the rush

More deals clinched as sentiment improves, foreign buyers sniff around

Luxury apartment deals picked up in the second and third quarters of this year as a more cheerful mood spread to the upper realms of the private residential market.

The number of apartments priced above $4 million changing hands rose rapidly from just 15 deals in the first quarter of this year to 87 in Q2 and 210 in Q3.

The total of 312 apartments in this price range sold in the first nine months of this year are 11 per cent more than the 280 transacted for the whole of 2008, which was generally a quiet year for the Singapore residential market following the global financial crisis, notes CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). It analysed caveats information from URA’s Realis system up to Oct 12.

During 2007 – the peak year for the luxury housing market – a total 1,740 apartments were sold at over $4 million each. Continue reading