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CONTENTS
p2 How the URA’s Masterplan 2013 Will
Affect the Property Market
p7 Singapore Property News This Week
p12 Resale Property Transactions
(November 6 – November 12)
Welcome to the 131st edition of the
Singapore Property Weekly .
Hope you like it!
Mr. Propwise
FROM THE
EDITOR
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By Mr. Propwise
By now you’ve probably read lots of media
reports about the Urban Redevelopment
Authority’s (URA) Draft Masterplan 2013, a
medium term plan which details statutoryland use and guides Singapore’s
development over a ten to fifteen year period.
In this post I hope to synthesize the different
views and look at how the concepts outlined
in the Master Plan will affect the property
market, and whether it throws up anyinteresting opportunities.
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The changing focus of the Master Plan
The URA’s role is to plan the physical
development of Singapore and to optimize
the use of the country’s limited land
resources. To this end it puts out the Concept
Plan, which is a long term strategic land use
plan that guides Singapore’s development
over a forty to fifty year period, ensuring that
Singapore has sufficient land to meet long
term population, economic and quality of life
goals. It is reviewed every ten years, and the
last one was completed in 2011.
Historically, the Master Plan has rendered the
broad strategies outlined in the Concept Plan
into detailed permissible land use and density
plans for developments in Singapore. It isreviewed every five years.
In the Draft Masterplan 2013, the URA is
moving away from its previous mostly
quantitative role (i.e. mainly looking at plot
ratios and land use), and starting to focus on
the qualitative aspects of living in Singapore.
We can see this shift from the 6 key focuses
as stated by the URA:
1. Housing
2. Economy
3. Recreation
4. Identity
5. Transport
6. Public Spaces
Out of the above 6 focuses, we see that half
of them (Recreation, Identity, Public Spaces)
are focusing more on the intangible and
people-centric aspects of living in Singapore,with an aim to boost the quality of life here
beyond just the hard aspects of having a
comfortable home in a convenient location
with good transportation links and facilities.
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Decentralization of work will create new
market opportunities
One of the trends we’ve been seeing in the
recent Master Plans is the decentralization of
employment centers to different areas of
Singapore, e.g. to Jurong and Paya Lebar,
partly as a means to ameliorate the
transportation capacity problem of a large
part of the population commuting to the CBD
to work.
The Master Plan 2013 introduces the North
Coast Innovation Corridor, which will see the
emergence of the Woodlands Regional
Centre, the Punggol Learning Corridor and
Creative Cluster. There will also be the
gradual development of new industrial estatessuch as Jalan Bahar, Wenya, Tengah, Lorong
Halus and Seletar West.
Where people go to work, so do opportunities
to invest in and rent out property. The key for
investors is to gauge the speed and
commitment of the government to incentivize
developments in all the new centers. The
irony is that with so many potential centers,
there is a diffusion of focus and not all willachieve an equal level of success.
Figure 1: Proposed Holland Village
Extension (Source: URA)
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My sense is that the centers that are closest
to the traditional economic hubs like the CBD
and Orchard (e.g. Paya Lebar, Holland
Village) have the greatest chance of
developing quickly, and consequently have
better investment prospects.
No more premium for being “close to the
MRT”?
As part of the effort to improve the public
transportation system, by 2030 the rail
network will double to 360km, and 80% of all
homes will be within a 10-minute walk to an
MRT station.
Traditionally homes near to an MRT station
will usually be able to command a premium toless well connected homes. But if 80% of
homes are within a 10-minute walk to the
MRT, will this premium still exist?
I believe being near to an MRT station will
eventually become less important to which
MRT station and line you are near to. Homes
near MRT interchanges (where two or more
lines cross) will likely command a larger
premium. Homes near MRT stations on lines
with key business hubs (e.g. the East-West
line which has connectivity to the hubs of Jurong, the CBD, Kampong Bugis, Paya
Lebar and Tampines) will have better prices
and rentals versus other lines which may
require multiple transits to get to the key
hubs.
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Residential
U p p e r P a y a L e b a r R d p r i v a t e h o u s e a n d 3
E C s i t es r o l l ed o u t u n d e r G L S
A private housing site in Upper Paya Lebar
Road and three executive condominium (EC)
sites have been rolled out for November
under the second half of 2013 Government
Land Sales (GLS) Programme. According to
DTZ head research Lee Lay Keng, the
government is trying to strike a balance
between adequate supply for current demand
and being mindful of upcoming supply of
private homes. The market would expect a
pullback of supply of private homes for the
confirmed list in the next half-year. Jones
Lang LaSalle national director Ong Teck Hui
said the supply of private homes by the
Ministry of National Development has
decreased from 8,000 in H2 2010, H1 & H2
2011 to 7,000 for 2012 and H1 2013, and
eventually standing at just 6,000 in H2 2013.
DTZ’s Lee Lay Keng predicted that the
government could release 5,000 to 6,000
private homes in the next-half confirmed list,
with a shift towards more ECs.
(Source: Business Times)
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Mar in a So u th to h ou s e 9,000 p riv at e
h o m e s
21.5 ha of development area in Marina South
will house 9,000 private homes with
development starting after 2017/2018 when
the Thomson Line is completed. This is part
of the Draft Master Plan 2013 of the Urban
Redevelopment Authority (URA) to create the
next major growth area. There will also be an
800-metre long underground mall betweentwo Thomson Line stations serving the area –
Marina South and Gardens by the Bay. The
ground-level space above the mall will be
used for pedestrian walkway. A separate
elevated landscaped walkway would take
pedestrians from the Bay South Gardens tothe seafront, and cycling path would cut
through other parts of Marina Bay.
(Source: Business Times)
Pat erso n H i l l : world’s 5 t h pr ic iest st reet
According to Billionaire.com report,
Singapore’s Paterson Hill, located in District 9
close to Orchard Road and international
schools, has been ranked the world’s fifth
priciest street, with an average price of
$4,990 psf. Prices along the road have
increased 6.5 percent in 2012. The Marq, the
most expensive condo on this road, is worth a
record $6,859 psf for a 3,003 sq ft unit in Nov2011. The local purchase of the condo is
about $20.5 million. Standing at the top spot
for world’s priciest street is Hong Kong’s
Pollock Path’s with an average price of
US$11,148 psf – the highest point on Hong
Kong island and a stomping ground of HongKong’s super-rich.
(Source: Business Times)
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H olland Vi l lage t o be ext ended under D raf t
Master Plan 2013
Under the Draft Master Plan 2013 of URA,
Holland Village will be extended 6 ha more for
a mixed use development and a basement
parking station. Another two residential plots
which could yield 1,500 units will also be
identified, although it has not yet been
announced to be designated for private or
public housing. The mixed-use plot is likely to
be the first to be implemented at the start of
2015. The developer who wins the tender is
required to build a basement carpark big
enough to serve Holland Village.
(Source: Business Times)
D r a f t M a s t e r P l a n 2 0 1 3 f o c u s e s o n g r e e n
t o w n s h i p s
Under the Draft Master Plan 2013 of the
URA, more townships that are green, healthy,
connected and strong in community
interaction will be built. Holland Village,
Kampong Bugis and Marina South will be the
districts with 14,500 new homes and eco-
friendly spaces. The 18-ha Kampong Bugiswill offer 4,000 more private homes. The
21.5-ha Marina South area will be turned into
a mixed-use residential district with 9,000
more private homes. A new commercial area
at Woodlands Regional Centre will be rolled
out to create 100,000 more jobs. A new retail
belt will also come up at Marina Bay. In
decentralising work space area, more
regional centres such as Jurong Lake District,
Tampines Regional Centre, Paya Lebar
Central and one-north will be opened.
Industrial parks including Seletar Aerospace
Park, Defu Industrial Estate and Lorong Halus
Industrial Park will continue to be developed.
Along with these decentralization plans,
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the city centre will continue to grow.
(Source: Business Times)
K am p on g B u gi s: n ew d ev el op m en t b y
URA
The URA is reported to develop Kampong
Bugis, located at the convergence of Rochor
Canal and Kallang River, into an area with
fewer cars and more public transport and
pedestrian walkways after 2016. 80 percent
of the 18-ha Kampong Bugis area will be
used to house 4,000 private housing units. It
would also be piloted for high-density, water-
sustainable practices to incorporate effective
stormwater management, vegetated swales,
bio-retention basins and detention ponds to
manage rainwater runoff.
(Source: Business Times)
T h e D r a f t M a s t e r P l a n 2 0 1 3 : m o r e p e o p l e -
cent r ic
It is reported that the Draft Master Plan 2013
is taking a more people-centric approach to
develop new activity clusters and encourage
green spaces, beyond just numbers and land
allocation for various uses. It would focus on
quality of life, a more livable environment and
more sports and recreation. However, some
consultants were surprised that plot ratios
were largely unchanged in the plan despite
the possibility of the population hitting 6.9
million by 2030. A sampling of 22 private
residential developments launched or sold via
en bloc sales in 2013 did not show any
increase in plot ratios, yet the Holland Villagearea which will be further developed under
the plan had their plot ratios raised from 2.8
to 4.6 and 3.6 for two residential plots.
(Source: Business Times)
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Commercial
JTC -ow ned f act ories t o relocat e
As a result of a new Master Plan still in a draft
stage, JTC-owned factories in Sungei Kadut,Yew Tee and Kranji areas may have to
relocate. JTC is reported to be assisting the
firms in the process of relocation, with
practical and sufficient timing. As the review
of the Plan is still taking place, clarity on what
the Master Plan entails for the three industrialsites would only be made in 2015.
(Source: Business Times)
O U E L t d t o s e l l O U E B a y f r o n t f o r a t l e a s t
$1 bi l l ion
Property group OUE Ltd is reported to be
selling its office and retail development OUE
Bayfront for at least $1 billion to the
commercial real estate investment trust to be
listed on the Singapore Exchange. The sale
may comprise $696.9 million in cash and
units in OUE Commercial Real Estate
Investment Trust of $308.1 million. In fact,
OUE Bayfront would be one of two assets toform the initial portfolio of OUE C-Reit. The
50-year leasehold Lippo Plaza in Shanghai is
also said to be injected into the Reit.
(Source: Business Times)
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Non-Landed Residential Resale Property Transactions for the Week of Nov 6 – Nov 12
NOTE: This data only covers non-landed residential resale propertytransactions with caveats lodged with the Singapore Land Authority. Typically, caveats are lodged at least 2-3 weeks after apurchaser signs an OTP, hence the lagged nature of the data.
Postal
DistrictProject Name
Area
(sqft)
Transacted
Price ($)
Price
($ psf)Tenure
4 CARIBBEAN AT KEPPEL BAY 1,335 2,130,000 1,596 99
4 CARIBBEAN AT KEPPEL BAY 1,227 1,950,000 1,589 99
4 CARIBBEAN AT KEPPEL BAY 1,206 1,880,000 1,559 99
5 PASIR VIEW PARK 990 1,230,000 1,242 FH
5 PALM MANSIONS 1,130 1,080,000 956 FH
9 ESTILO 657 978,000 1,489 FH
10 CUSCADEN RESIDENCES 1,238 2,800,000 2 ,262 FH
10 THE MONTANA 1,206 2,188,240 1,815 FH
10 THE MARBELLA 1,582 2,700,000 1,706 FH
10 THE MARBELLA 1,076 1,820,000 1,691 FH
10 SHEARES VILLE 1,475 2,200,000 1,492 FH
10 TANGLIN PARK 1,765 2,500,000 1,416 FH
11 THE LINCOLN RESIDENCES 1,841 3,357,000 1,824 FH
11 NEWTON EURO-ASIA 1,184 1,890,000 1,596 FH
11 SOLEIL @ SINARAN 1,485 2,000,000 1,346 99
12 THE CENTRIO 614 990,000 1,614 FH
12 TREVISTA 1,270 1,866,900 1,470 99
12 CASA FORTUNA 1,076 1,380,000 1,282 FH
14 GROSVENOR VIEW 883 1,066,000 1,208 FH
14 CASA SARINA 1,184 1,080,000 912 FH
15 THE SEAFRONT ON MEYER 1,604 2,980,000 1,858 FH
15 THE ATRIA AT MEYER 1,345 1,750,000 1,301 FH
15 HAIG COURT 1,550 1,900,000 1,226 FH
15 CANTIZ @ RAMBAI 872 960,000 1,101 FH
Postal
DistrictProject Name
Area
(sqft)
Transacted
Price ($)
Price
($ psf)Tenure
16 SUNHAVEN 2,077 1,700,000 818 FH
18 OASIS @ ELIAS 1,410 1,350,000 957 99
19 KOVAN RESIDENCES 1,776 2,280,000 1,284 99
19 CHUAN PARK 710 840,000 1,182 99
19 COMPASS HEIGHTS 1,055 930,000 882 99
19 EVERGREEN PARK 1,345 1,150,000 855 99
19 RIVERVALE CREST 1,367 1,130,000 827 99
21 THE NEXUS 1,485 2,200,000 1,481 FH
21 FREESIA WOODS 1,421 1,950,000 1,372 FH
21 SYMPHONY HEIGHTS 1,206 1,370,000 1,136 FH22 PARC OASIS 1,378 1,400,000 1,016 99
23 MI CASA 1,259 1,335,000 1,060 99
23 CHESTNUT VILLE 1,658 1,532,000 924 999
23 HILLVIEW REGENCY 1,173 1,010,000 861 99
23 PALM GARDENS 958 815,000 851 99
25 ROSEWOOD 1,173 1,050,000 895 99
25 CASABLANCA 1,195 985,000 824 99
26 BULLION PARK 1,259 1,270,000 1,008 FH
27 YISHUN SAPPHIRE 1,378 988,000 717 99