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Balmoral, Tagore sites for sale

SAVILLS Singapore has launched for sale two residential properties – the freehold No 3 Balmoral Road with an indicative price of $65 million; and an 86,402 square foot plot at No 162 Tagore Avenue, within the Teachers Housing Estate, with an indicative price of $15 million. The latter is being sold on a 99-year leasehold tenure by the Singapore Teachers’ Union, which holds the freehold interest in the property.

No 3 Balmoral Road: This is a development of 11 apartments, all leased out, but Savills is marketing the property for its redevelopment potential

No 3 Balmoral Road currently comprises a development of 11 apartments, all leased out, but Savills is marketing the property for its redevelopment potential. The property is owned by an investment company and has a land area of 23,821 sq ft, a permissible plot ratio (ratio of maximum gross floor area to land area) of 1.6 and a height restriction of 12 storeys.

The site has been granted written permission by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the development of 30 residential units. Savills said that such a development would have an estimated total potential saleable area of about 45,000 sq ft. The figure is understood to include bay windows and planter boxes. Development charge has been fully paid, up to a gross floor area (GFA) Continue reading

S’pore property picking up

New mega projects, government support to help revive sector

The property market in Singapore is showing signs of recovery after the global financial meltdown and analysts as well as developers are optimistic this uptrend will continue, especially with the government’s strong support.

The latest CB Richard Ellis Market View Report showed that property transactions in the republic peaked to about S$54bil in 2007.

It tumbled by about 66% to S$18bil in 2008 – impacted by the global financial crisis – before plummeting to insignificant levels of transactions in the first quarter this year.

However, the report also indicated that the property sector may have bottomed out, going by the investment transactions worth several billion dollars in the second quarter compared with the first quarter.

The report also showed that the pace of rental drop had eased as stability in the market returned, especially in office space, while pent-up demand for residential sector was seen in the mass market, mid-tier and prime segments.

There was also a significant increase in the volume of resale homes and sub-sales in the secondary market of the residential sector.

But the industrial sector remained sluggish with a slow rate of decline in rental and capital appreciation.

The retail sector showed new supply and new concepts that spelt an exciting era for businesses.

Raffles Quay Asset Management Pte Ltd (RQAM) general manager Wilson Kwong said the company was seeing some early signs of recovery in the property sector and the momentum should improve going into 2010. Continue reading