Two shophouses at Perak Road up for sale at $13 mil

The two-storey shophouses at 6 and 7 Perak Road, located in the Jalan Besar/Little India precinct, have a total built-up area of 5,360 sq ft and a land area of approximately 2,870 sq ft, with an 11.4m-wide frontage along Perak Road. Features include mezzanine space and approval for usage as a backpackers’ hostel.

Gracelynn Zhu of PropNex Shophouse Elites, which is marketing the property, notes that given their well-kept condition and strategic location in District 8, surrounded by amenities and close to Bugis, the properties enjoy strong rental demand. The property is currently being offered via tender with a guide price of $13 million, which works out to $2,425 psf.

With the recovery of the tourism sector gaining strong momentum, Zhu believes the properties may be ideal for hostel operators as well as investors seeking assets that can provide strong rental and capital growth. She estimates that the shophouses could …

JLL promotes Sandeep Sethi to Asia Pacific division president for work dynamics

Sandeep Sethi has been appointed as the division president of JLL’s Work Dynamics for Asia Pacific. This business unit provides clients with services concerning the whole real estate life cycle such as integrated facilities management, construction management services, sustainability and workplace consulting, workplace experience and lease transaction management. Sethi’s role will expand from his current managing director and head of Work Dynamics in West Asia.

He has worked in the corporate sector for over 27 years, which includes 10 years of experience at JLL. During this period, he has been successful in building client relationships, and is currently in charge of 160 million sq ft of office space across 1,500 clients in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and Bangladesh.

With this promotion, Sethi will now be responsible for the North Asia market as well. His responsibilities include growing JLL’s market share in China and Hong Kong, in addition …

Slow start to 2023 for real estate investment sales amid market uncertainties: Knight Frank

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Singapore’s real estate investment scene got off to a slow start of $4.2 billion in quarter one of 2023, according to global real estate firm Knight Frank. This marked a decrease of 61% year over year compared to 1Q2022’s $10.8 billion and is the lowest quarterly total since 2Q2020, when the government enforced “circuit breaker” measures.

Residential deals amounted to $1.6 billion in the first quarter, including the collective sales of Meyer Park, Bagnall Court and Holland Tower which totalled some $583.8 million. The sale of Holland Tower is the first successful residential en bloc transaction in the Core Central Region (CCR) since property cooling measures were imposed in December 2021, indicating a return of interest for prime location development sites.

However, Chia Mein Mein, Head of Capital Markets (Land & Collective Sale) at Knight Frank Singapore, notes that the en bloc environment remains challenging due to the gulf …

Shipyard at Benoi Road for sale at $11.3 mil

The property at 1 Benoi Road in Singapore is being launched for sale via an expression of interest (EOI) exercise at a guide price of $11.3 million. Located at the junction of Benoi Road and Pioneer Road, within the Jurong Industrial Estate and approximately 24km from the City Centre, it has a site area of over 500,000 sq ft and convenient access to the Ayer Rajah Expressway and Pan-Island Expressway.

The property includes a two-storey office block with a single-storey annexe office, three blocks of single-storey workshop, a mould loft building, a fabrication workshop and wharf, making it suitable for shipbuilding, ship or vessel repair and maintenance. It has a regular shape with a corner frontage of about 255m on Benoi Road and Pioneer Road and an average plot depth of about 213m. To the east, it has a roughly 230m frontage along the waterfront with a generally flat contour.…

GuocoLand sole bidder for Lentor Gardens GLS site at $985 psf ppr

GuocoLand to launch its 605-unit Lentor Modern this Saturday

The 99-year leasehold site located at Lentor Gardens recently drew only one bid from GuocoLand and Intrepid Investments (a subsidiary of Hong Leong Group) at the tender which closed today, with a bid of $486.8 million. This translates to a land rate of $985 psf per plot ratio (psf ppr).

A GuocoLand spokesperson shared their vision on this site, “We plan to develop a new high-end residential property with 533 units and childcare facilities of 600 sqm.” The future development will contribute to their goal to transform the Lentor Hills estate, and make it known as a premium residential area.

Mark Yip, the CEO of Huttons Asia said the $958 psf ppr bid is the lowest for a land parcel in the Lentor precinct, and this is the first residential GLS tender to see only one bid since the Silat Avenue …