50 per cent stake in retail portion of Malacca Centre in Raffles Place also transacted
INVESTMENT sales of property have been gathering momentum in the private sector, with several deals inked recently.
They include the Park Regis hotel at New Market Street/Merchant Road near the Singapore River, which is said to have been sold for $218 million to Indonesian mining magnate Yusuf Merukh.
Separately, a 50 per cent stake each in the retail portion of Malacca Centre in the Raffles Place area and three shop units at Coronation Plaza have been sold to a single buyer in a deal valuing the assets at about $40 million. BT understands that the deal involves a yield guarantee.
Over at Robinson Road, Chow House is believed to have been sold for slightly over $100 million. The price for the six-storey freehold office block, which has redevelopment potential, is said to work out to about $1,200 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr) assuming it is redeveloped into a new office block.
If redeveloped into apartments, the unit land price is closer to $1,300 psf ppr. The site has a land area of 9,084 sq ft and is currently zoned for commercial use with an 11.2+ plot ratio under Master Plan 2008.
Outline planning permission has also been granted to redevelop the property into residential use with commercial use on the first storey.
Chow House is understood to have been bought by a group whose shareholders include entrepreneur YY Wong, founder of the WyWy Group. It is one of nine properties put up for sale by liquidator Tam Chee Chong of Deloitte & Touche, as part of the resolution of a family dispute. The other properties are mostly shophouses. DTZ marketed the properties.
Over in the Singapore River area, Park Regis hotel is being sold just ahead of its scheduled opening next month. The $218 million deal involves the 203-room, four-star hotel and a seven-storey office block comprising about 42,000 sq ft of net lettable space.
A market watcher suggested that the hotel component alone could be valued at about $730,000 per room or $148 million. The asset is being sold by an entity controlled by Asok Kumar Hiranandani of Royal Brothers Group who developed the property on a 99-year leasehold site clinched at a state tender in October 2007.
While Mr Hiranandani is selling his stake in the hotel, Australian-based StayWell Hospitality Group, in which he also has an interest, will continue to manage it, as originally planned.
In an interview with BT in June, Mr Hiranandandi put the total investment in the property at about $175 million.
Separately, RB Capital, controlled by Mr Hiranandani’s nephew Kishin, is said to have sold a half stake in two retail assets for a total of about $40 million recently.
They are: the retail podium of Malacca Centre comprising close to 5,300 sq ft spread over basement 1, ground and mezzanine levels; and three shop units with a total strata area of about 6,300 sq ft at Coronation Plaza in Bukit Timah. The buyer is a Singapore private investor who has been given a three-year rental guarantee. Malacca Centre has 999-year leasehold tenure while Coronation Plaza is freehold.
Source : Business Times – 3 Aug 2010
Sat, Aug 07, 2010
The Business Times
Nine Chow family properties sold for $175m
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Chow House, the most prominent of the nine assets, went for more than $100 million and could be redeveloped into a residential project. The nine assets
In 2007, eldest son Chow Kwok Chi asked the High Court to wind up the companies so the brothers could go their separate ways. Deloitte & Touche's head of financial advisory services Tam Chee Chong was appointed liquidator to sell the companies' assets and distribute the proceeds among shareholders. DTZ handled the public tender for the nine properties. According to DTZ, there were 'overwhelming responses from both local and foreign interested parties'. The freehold Chow House drew nine bidders and was sold for just over $100 million. BT reported earlier that the buyer could be a group whose shareholders include WyWy Group founder YY Wong. DTZ said the authorities have granted outline permission for the site to be developed into a new residential project with commercial space on the ground floor. The other eight properties - at Lorong Telok, North Canal Road, Jalan Besar, Upper Serangoon Road and Lavender Street - went to various other investors. This article was first published in The Business Times. | |||||
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Chow House, the most prominent of the nine assets, went for more than $100 million and could be redeveloped into a residential project.
The nine assets
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In 2007, eldest son Chow Kwok Chi asked the High Court to wind up the companies so the brothers could go their separate ways.
Deloitte & Touche's head of financial advisory services Tam Chee Chong was appointed liquidator to sell the companies' assets and distribute the proceeds among shareholders. DTZ handled the public tender for the nine properties.
According to DTZ, there were 'overwhelming responses from both local and foreign interested parties'.
The freehold Chow House drew nine bidders and was sold for just over $100 million. BT reported earlier that the buyer could be a group whose shareholders include WyWy Group founder YY Wong.
DTZ said the authorities have granted outline permission for the site to be developed into a new residential project with commercial space on the ground floor.
The other eight properties - at Lorong Telok, North Canal Road, Jalan Besar, Upper Serangoon Road and Lavender Street - went to various other investors.
This article was first published in The Business Times.
