MTR Corporation (0066) received 33
expressions of interest for the relaunched Tung Chung East Station Phase
1 project, one more than a year ago.
Local developers including Sun Hung
Kai Properties (0016), CK Asset (1113), Henderson Land Development
(0012), Wheelock Properties, Chinachem, Emperor International (0163),
Far East Consortium International (0035), K&K Property and Chun Wo
Development were said to have submitted their expressions.
The target project has a gross
floor area of 322,900 square feet for residential use, which is
estimated to be able to offer about 600 units. The market valuations
range from HK$320 million to HK$480 million.
MTRC cut the involved gross floor
area by over 53 percent from when the project was first launched last
year and removed the requirement to build a shopping mall.
In the first launch, MTRC received
32 expressions of interest but in the end withdrew the project with zero
bids amid the sluggish property market.
The project near the Tung Chung East Station is the only one MTRC plan for this year.
MTRC property and international
business director David Tang Chi-fai expects the property sector could
support the project as the Tung Chung East would be a key community to
Hong Kong and the company made many adjustments to the development plan.
Tang added that the home sales would start in three to four years, believing that market sentiment would much improve by then.
However, a surveyor noted that the
response to the official tender may be cooler as the developers remain
conservative given the high inventory of new homes and the lack of
well-established infrastructure in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, the Buildings Department
approved only one residential construction plan in September, with the
historical architecture Maryknoll House on Stanley Village Road in
Stanley allowed to be redeveloped into a three-story flatted house, in
addition to six other commercial and industrial plans.
The number of Hong Kong residential
property rental deals was 70 percent higher than purchasing
transactions in the first nine months, driven by the strong demand of
new arrivals including mainlanders, according to a local property
agency.
In Happy Valley, Chevalier
International (0025) and the Hong Kong-Macao Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists will launch a residential project Ventria Residence for the
elderly officially on November 26.
(The Standard)
TST fourth in priciest street list
Tsim Sha Tsui ranked fourth in the
world for most expensive shopping street and continues to top the
Asia-Pacific ranking as the most expensive retail destination in the
region, according to an international property agency's 2024 Main
Streets report, which focuses on headline rents in 138 best-in-class
urban retail locations across the globe.
A European street took top spot for
the first time with store rents in Via Montenapoleone in Milan rising
by nearly a third over the past two years to US$2,047 (HK$15,966) per
square foot.
Upper 5th Avenue in New York City was dethroned this year, sliding into second with rents at US$2,000 per sq ft.
London's New Bond Street
leapfrogged Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui to take third, despite the
latter's positive rental growth. Yearly rents for Tsim Sha Tsui main
street shops advanced by 7 percent year-on-year to an average of
US$1,607 per sq ft.
But rents in New Bond Street surged by 13 percent year-on-year to US$1,762 per sq ft.
Causeway Bay and Central ranked
second and seventh in the Asia Pacific rankings with yearly rents at
US$1,430 and US$721 per sq ft respectively. Central moved up one spot
from a year earlier, beating Shinjuku in Tokyo.
Russell Street in Causeway Bay once topped the list in the second quarter of 2018 with a yearly rent of US$2,671 per sq ft.
Rents across the 138 locations are now on average nearly 6 percent above pre-pandemic levels.
Rents in the four core districts in
the city - Tsim Sha Tsui, Central, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok - bottomed
out in 2023 and remained within the single-digit growth range of
between 3 and 6 percent year-to-date as of the third quarter, according
to an agent.
(The Standard)
10月商廈租務526宗 按年升27%
統計指,今年10月商廈租務及租用樓面,均較去年同期大升。
有本港代理行資料顯示,10月商廈市場錄得約526宗租賃成交,按月及按年分別上升約17.9%及約26.4%;而涉及租用面積約156萬平方呎,較9月的約108萬平方呎大增約44%,按年對比更增約5成,反映整體商廈吸納情況理想,企業擴充樓面態度亦轉趨積極。月內市場錄得較為矚目的大手租務成交,如金管局以呎租約58元承租西九龍柯士甸道西1號環球貿易廣場22樓、25樓及27樓共3層樓面,面積共約10.8萬平方呎,涉及月租約626.4萬元。
至於甲廈空置率方面,10月九龍區整體空置率錄得13.48%,按月下跌0.51個百分點。東九龍區甲廈空置情況大幅改善,觀塘錄得約11.07%,按月下跌1.87個百分點,為今年度該區最低紀錄;九龍灣亦同見改善,最新空置率錄得約24.47%,按月跌1.14個百分點。而尖沙咀空置率最新錄得8.51%,按月微升0.13百分點,按年同期比較則跌0.67個百分點。
港島區空置率12.34%
至於港島區,10月空置率整體錄得12.34%,按月下降0.07個百分點,而與去年同期11.8%相比,則上升0.54個百分點,個別核心區則錄有顯著改善迹象,其中銅鑼灣區10月錄得空置率8.8%,按月及按年分別下跌0.49及0.53個百分點,而金鐘區仍為港島區空置率最低區域,最新錄得7.51%,按年改善幅度達2.09個百分點。
該行代理表示,受惠於息口下調和較早前股市走勢強勁等利好因素,本地商業氣氛回暖,令寫字樓租賃個案有明顯增加,而最新一份施政報告亦繼續大力發展「總部經濟」,吸引海內外公司來港設立總部或分部,相信相關政策可有效激活本地寫字樓租賃市場,加上最新美聯儲局於11月再度減息,對整體營商環境而言有推動作用,相信租務市場會維持活躍,對後市抱審慎樂觀態度。
(經濟日報)
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外資代理行:5大商業區空置率降
據一間外資代理行報告指,10月5大商業區甲級寫字樓空置率俱回落,整體市場租金按月下跌0.8%。
該行發表的香港地產市場報告中指出,整體甲級寫字樓市場在10月見改善,5大商業區的空置率俱回落。10月底整體市場空置率下降至13.3%。其中灣仔/銅鑼灣空置率下跌0. 4個百分點至低於10%,中環空置率同樣下跌0. 4個百分點。
該行代理指,上月整體租賃市場有所改善,錄得183,700平方呎淨吸納量。金融機構於寫字樓租賃市場最活躍,開始見到來自私人財富管理公司及家族辦公室的租賃需求。盡管經濟仍具挑戰,政府已積極對外推廣以吸引高資產人士在港開設家族辦公室,相信長遠的租賃需求將會增加。
租金按月微跌
該行另一代理表示,盡管空置率有所改善,10月整體市場租金仍按月下跌0.8%。中環租金進一步下跌0.8%。灣仔/銅鑼灣及港島東的租金亦分別下跌了0.5%和1.1%。
(經濟日報)
共享辦公室 商廈逆市更靈活
整體商廈空置率高,有共享辦公室營運商認為,因業務為企業提供靈活性,反而在逆市下受歡迎,並相信未來可與商廈業主合作及提供方案,加快提高出租率。
星星地產主席陳文輝於10年前,創立METRO
WORKSPACE共享辦公室,先後於中環、金鐘、葵涌等設立據點。陳文輝稱,共享辦公室的好處是簽約較短,靈活度高,「當市況充滿不明朗因素時,更造就共享辦公室,因企業希望採取靈活方案,例如較短租約。」他提到,現時旗下7個辦公點,整體出租率在9成以上,惟租金受整體市況影響,徘徊在較低水平。
與業主合作 締雙贏
面對目前商廈高空置情況,集團作出新部署,就是以該營運品牌,與業主合作管理樓面。首個合作位於黃竹坑「The
Urban
Woods」,星星地產資本市場董事總經理余湛銘指,兩年前接手該廈全層樓面,「曾經是一個共享辦公室營運商租用,停運後交回業主。接手後再作少許改動,並重新處理租務,1年內由零租客,變成出租率9成以上,屬非常成功個案。」
他提到,新模式是與業主合作關係,替其招租,再向業主收取分成,「當然要與租務表現掛勾,業主隨時可向我們終上合作。」他指,業主最初未必接受新模式,「覺得沒有租金收入,但當交吉一段日子後,情況未有改善,便開始嘗試與我們合作。」
他分析,對業主來說,擁多個好處,「一方面現時租金處低水平,若現以低租鎖定3至5年租金,業主或會擔心數年後租金會回升,若與我們合作,以較短期租約便具靈活性。」此外,品牌營運10年,曾合作機構達數千個,可提供方案並擁有平台,協助配對租客。
高才通帶動 租務需求增
至於今年新查詢的企業,METRO
WORKSPACE經理陳歌嫚表示,自從政府的人才通、高才通等措施後,多了外來企業查詢,例如來自內地,2至8人成立新公司,或曾於投資銀行工作,現自立門戶需要一個小辦公室。她提到,現時黃竹坑項目提供28間房,出租率9成以上,每間房約5,000元起,租客不乏設計公司、金融行業等。在營運期間,喜見有企業不斷擴充,「最成功例子,為最初2人公司,後來兩度升級,至一間8人房,可見業務擴充。」
對於行業前景,陳文輝指共享空間擴充高峰期已過,甚至有大型品牌已離開市場,現時處於穩定期,「月租其實已沒有下跌空間,大約在4千至5千元起便穩定下來,反映始終有基本需求。」
他認為,新工作模式未必人人需要返公司上班,但員工又未必希望在家工作,或會到住所附近的辦公空間。至於香港整體營商氣氛,他相信仍有待改善,但對香港基本條件仍有信心,「香港始終有低稅優勢,吸引高才通客戶,想在港設立辦公點。」
(經濟日報)
赤柱瑪利諾神父宿舍 建住宅
屋宇署9月共批出7份建築圖則,包括住宅及工商等項目,其中港島及新界各佔3份,九龍則佔1份。
住宅項目方面,赤柱一級歷史建築赤柱村道44號瑪利諾神父宿舍,於月內獲准修訂建築圖則,興建1幢3層高 (建於1層地庫停車場之上) 的分層住宅,總樓面約27,806平方呎。
前述項目繼2021年獲批加建住宅發展後,近期再向城規會申請放寬密度等限制,以翻新並擴建現有宿舍及加建1幢住宅等,將提供23伙,料於2028年12月落成。
至於商業項目,萬國數據葵涌打磚坪街57至61號中央工業大廈獲准重建1幢19層高 (另設2層地庫) 的數據中心,總樓面約276,115平方呎。
另外,西營盤第三街15至19號項目獲批建1幢3層高的商業項目,涉及總樓面面積約4,563平方呎。項目近年曾向城規會申請重建1幢27層高酒店。
而大埔下黃宜凹一幅政府用地獲批建1幢3層高的安老院,總樓面面積涉約50,764平方呎。這項目申請人為可愛忠實之家 (HOLF)。
(經濟日報)