Wheelock wins bid for Lohas Park Phase 12
Wheelock
and Company (0020) won the bid for the Lohas Park Phase 12 plot in
Tseung Kwan O, and Centaline Property Agency expects prices of completed
properties at the project to start from HK$15,000-16,000 per square
foot.
MTR Corporation (0066) announced the result yesterday, one day after ending the tender submissions on Tuesday.
Nine
developers submitted tenders for Phase 12 of Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O
on Tuesday, including Henderson Land Development (0012), CK Asset
(1113) and Sun Hung Kai Properties (0016).
MTRC is asking for a land premium of HK$2.7 billion, or HK$2,835 per square foot, for the project, according to reports.
The
per square foot price was 10 percent lower than the land premium of
HK$3,194 per sq ft of the phase 11 of Lohas Park, which was won by Sino
Land (0083), K Wah International (0173) and China Merchants Land (0978)
last April.
Meanwhile,
real estate agent expects the number of property transactions to fall
30 percent month-on-month in February, as market sentiment has turned
sour due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
The
number of private residential property transactions in Hong Kong fell 5
percent month-on-month to 613 in January, the lowest in 13 months, with
the total consideration plunging 34 percent month-on-month to HK$7.28
billion, according to another real estate agent. However, the agent
expects private residential property transactions to rally in February,
as some registrations last month had to be delayed to February due to
the epidemic.
In the secondary market, a
910-sq-ft flat at Whampoa Garden was available for HK$16 million after
the owner cut HK$2 million from the original asking price.
In the commercial property
market, a 3,000-sq-ft street shop at Cannon Street in Causeway Bay was
rented for HK$300,000 per month, after HK$150,000 was cut from the
original asking rent.
In the capital market, the
overall Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate continued a pullback on
Wednesday. The one-month Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate, which is
linked to the mortgage rate, fell to 2.01 percent, a two-week low.
(The Standard)
