佔据中环心臟位置的新海滨3号商业地王，将于周五截标；区内拥有地标项目的大型发展商，如持有国金 (IFC)的恒地 (00012) 已表态一定会参与竞投，英资怡和旗下的置地有机会进一步扩大商业版图，连同会德丰地产等财团，势掀一场「地王争霸战」。

经历长达半年招标期的中环新海滨3号商业地王，终在本周五 (18日) 截标。这幅地皮位于怡和大厦对出，比邻国际金融中心一期及二期，旁边亦是知名旅游景点香港摩天轮。地皮面积近52万平方呎，最高可建楼面约161.5万平方呎。中标财团另需兴建约23万平方呎的政府设施，包括重置现时的邮政总局等。地皮市场估值330亿至553亿元。

梁志坚：靚地吸本地龙头入标

贵为中环核心地段的罕有大型商业地，市场预计，地皮会吸引本港多间一綫发展商竞投。持有国际金融中心一期及二期的恒地，已表明一定会参与竞投，因为地皮属「靚地」，加上其发展潜力大；惟现阶段未可透露发展方案及投资额。即使在疫情打击下，中环的甲级写字楼空置率攀升，但是集团依然十分看好中环的商业前景，又形容「国金的租客退租后，即有新租客承接」。

至于属英资怡和旗下的置地，目前在中环亦拥有多个商业项目，包括比邻地皮的怡和大厦、交易广场、置地广场及太子大厦等，属「中环大地主」。而怡和已经多年未有参与竞投本港地皮，但今次中环地王位于集团商业王国版图内，或会吸引置地罕有出手竞投。虽然置地公司执行董事周明祖日前未有正面回答集团是否有意入标地皮，惟他形容，集团对于所有中环区的项目都感兴趣，又称得悉很多人有留意这幅地皮。

其次，会德丰地产主席梁志坚表示，集团已经思考了很久，并正考虑会否入标，因为入标前的工作繁多，坦言「有好多事要理会」，并有意发展商场及写字楼。他直言，鑑于地皮位处市区地段，估计一定会吸引本地龙头发展商入标。

测量师估 中资参与机会不大

值得一提的是，近年本港官地不乏中资参与，例如中资平安人寿去年以约113亿元购入西九高铁站上盖商业地王办公室部分的30%业权，因此中资亦有机会竞投上述地王。

有测量师预计，虽中资有能力承担高昂的投地金额，惟他们对香港的熟悉度始终不及本港发展商，因此他预计中资入标的机会不太大，或有可能伙拍本地发展商竞投。不过，由于中资希望在中环「插旗」，因而不排除他们日后会收购地皮的整座商厦，并取得命名权。以目前市况推断，地皮商厦部分落成后呎租可达80至100元水平。

(经济日报)

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置地灵活办公空间 租期3个月起

置地近日在公爵大厦开设两层共2.5万平方呎的灵活的办公空间「Centricity Flex」，租约期短至3个月起，希望打造生态圈，为其中环商厦群引入更多租户。

公爵大厦Centricity Flex 涉2.5万呎

该Centricity Flex设在公爵大厦17楼及18楼，合共面积2.5万平方呎，最多可放置320张工作枱，每次须承租至少300平方呎空间或8张工作枱。跟置地旗下商厦多以长租约为主不同，Centricity Flex租约期为3个月至3年不等。据指已有一家国际金融机构将成为主要租户，首次进驻中环。

同时，Centricity Flex亦设有16个单人或双人办公隔间、7间会议室、22张流动座位 (Hot desks)。单人办公室时租介乎50至100元，而会议室时租则介乎400至1,700元。置地指，以项目的位置及质素，定位为高端产品，但在市场中并不属于最贵的一类。

置地执行董事周明祖指，置地旗下中环物业为租户提供一站式解决方案，小至办公隔间、大至超过十万平方呎的多层办公空间，租约期短至数月、长至10年以上，以满足企业不同阶段的增长需求。

Centricity Flex目标租户是优质企业，尤其是希望以更灵活的租赁条款物色办公室的金融机构及专业服务机构。周明祖称，希望能够建立起生态圈，丰富中环商厦群的商户组合。至于Centricity主管班立德则指，Centricity Flex为企业的业务增长和灵活发展提供支持。

(经济日报)

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粉岭安乐村 转发展数据中心

踏入5G年代，市场对数据中心的需求大大增加，不少财团积极购入本港工业地发展相关业务。观乎近年粉岭安乐村工业区有不少新发展，区内7个工厦兴建或活化项目，共提供约114万平方呎楼面，当中有部分已落实发展为数据中心，包括已批予外资的安乐门街工业官地，涉约21.7万平方呎楼面。

邻近粉岭联和墟的安乐村工业区，范围达351.1万平方呎，现时属于「工业」规划用途。区内由98幢工业大厦，及政府持有的20幅休憩用地、临时停车场等组成。有见社会对工厦、货仓仍然有相当需求，因此规划署之前决定保留该区作为「工业」规划用途，并放宽规划发展限制。

7项目 提供逾114万呎楼面

随着资讯发达，并吸引不少本地及外地发展商在港买地发展数据中心。近年政府陆续推出该区的政府工业用地，其中最新于本年初，以约8.1294亿元批出的的粉岭安乐门街工业地，亦将会发展为数据中心。地皮位于粉岭安乐门街、安全街与安居街交界，面积约4.34万平方呎，以地积比率约5倍发展，最高可建楼面约21.7万平方呎，以每平方呎楼面地价约3,750元计，创下新界北区工业地呎价新高，可见相关用地需求上升。

上述地皮最终由新加坡丰树产业夺得，集团考虑到电子商务、云端运算及5G网络日渐盛行，上述业务对数据中心的需求逐步增加等因素，决定在此地皮设立集团首个位于香港的数据中心，并计划出租予终端使用者或数据中心营运商等。该数据中心除了服务本地用家外，亦会提供良好及快速的网络予深圳的云端用家，及其餘内地主要城市的用家。

佳明两地皮 建出租用数据中心

值得一提的是，去年佳明旗下两间全资附属公司，亦分别以约1.68亿及约1.88亿元，购入粉岭安居街3号及粉岭安福街7号地皮。两幅地皮面积分别约1.79万及1.91万平方呎。如以地积比率5倍发展，经补地价后，分别可以兴建约8.95万及约9.55万平方呎楼面的工厦。佳明亦表示，购入地皮后，将兴建两座数据中心，并作租赁用途。另一方面，区内亦有其他新式工厦或活化项目，包括区内对上一幅批出，于2018年由亿京夺得的安乐村用地。该地皮已获批兴建1幢15层高（1层地库上）的新型工厦，涉及总楼面约30.18万平方呎，料主要作工业物流等用途。若以中标价计，每平方呎楼面地价约2,430元。

同时，已故铺王「波叔」邓成波于2014年购入的勉励龙中心，总楼面约15.3万平方呎，已获批活化用途，可重建作商店及食肆，重建后楼面最高约21.19万平方呎。

(经济日报)

荷李活道全幢商厦4.3亿售

中环荷李活道全幢以4.3亿易手，呎价约1.8万，属市价水平，买家为资深投资者。

市场消息透露，上址为中环荷李活道35至37号C Wisdom Centre全幢，以总楼面23889方呎计算，平均呎价约1.8万，上址于2019年以3.8亿以股权转让方式易手，原业主持货仅两年，帐面获利5000万，期间升值约13%。

据代理指，该厦楼高26楼，成交价属市价，买家为资深投资者。物业由低层地下至3楼为商铺用途，6楼至26楼为写字楼，5楼为平台花园，基座楼面约1300方呎，写字楼每层约950方呎。

廖伟麟拆售有线大楼全层

另一代理表示，由资深投资者廖伟麟持有的荃湾有线电视大楼30楼全层拆售，全层楼面共分14伙，其中3伙早前率先获预留，推售单位面积约1380至3418方呎，意向呎价由约5500元起，入场价约759万。项目提供长短成交期，由3个月起至最长达12个月，项目开售后随即获买家青睞，以约1253.38万购入30楼01室，面积约2161方呎，呎价约5800元。

该代理续表示，现时待售的10个餘货单位以连约出售，月租由约1.86万至相连户约11万餘元不等，租期最短至2021年8月，最长至2024年初。

(星岛日报)

Ho Man Tin project prices released

Vanke Property Hong Kong released 17 flats in the second price list of VAU Residence in Ho Man Tin at an average price of HK$25,131 per square foor after discounts, 2.5 percent higher than the first price list.

The cheapest flat, measuring 209 sq ft, is offered at HK$5.5 million, or HK$26,344 per sq ft after discount.

Henderson Land Development (0012) expects to launch The Henley II for sales next month.

CK Asset (1113) sold two flats at 21 Borrett Road in the Mid-Levels for about HK$380 million in total.

Centralcon Properties has applied to the Town Planning Board to build 60 residential flats in the Tai Hang Road project and to relax the plot ratio.

(The Standard)

Hongkong Land opens its Centricity Flex space in Central, embracing flexible work as more people work from home

Hongkong Land’s Centricity Flex, with 25,000 square feet (2,322 square metres) of space, opens today on the 17th and 18th floor of the Landmark Edinburgh Tower on Queen’s Road Central

Private suites range from 900 sq ft to 2,300 sq ft on the 17th floor while those on the 18th can be configured subject to client’s needs

Hongkong Land, the biggest commercial landlord in the city’s Central business district, has opened a flexible work environment at one of the world’s most expensive office addresses, in a U-turn to its reticence to develop co-working space.

The developer’s Centricity Flex, featuring 25,000 square feet (2,322 square metres) opens today on the 17th and 18th floor of the Landmark Edinburgh Tower on Queen’s Road Central. Other tenants in the tower include the audit firm PwC, the Swiss private bank Bank J. Safra Sarasin and the white-shoe legal practices K&L Gates and Skadden Arps.

An international financial services firm has signed on as the first tenant of Centricity Flex, occupying a private office suite, Hongkong Land said without disclosing the customer’s name.

“We would like to offer companies that are similar to those in our current tenants portfolio an option to traditional leases,” said the developer’s executive director Raymond Chow. “By working in Centricity Flex, tenants can get a first impression of being part of Hongkong Land’s community.”

The market for flexible working space is picking up again in Hong Kong after the initial slump brought by tough social-distancing rules during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

Co-working space operators, who often sublet space to other tenants, have developed a bad name, as the market shrank in the past year. WeWork, the global pioneer of the co-working space concept, gave up 90,000 square feet of space over eight floors in Causeway Bay in March, shrinking its real estate footprint as more people chose to work from home.

With office vacancy rates soaring to a 15-year record of 7.5 per cent, a change in behaviour is under way: co-working space is becoming attractive again as firms eschew office space that cost tens of millions of dollars in annual rent for flexible arrangements during the post-coronavirus era that include a mix of working from home and working in the office. The up shot is cheaper overhead, whilst maintaining the prestige of an office address in Central.

Hongkong Land, 50 per cent owned by the conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings, is not the only developer to embrace the co-working concept. Great Eagles Holdings, the owner of The Langham chain of hotels, opened its fifth Eaton Club flexible space at its Great Eagle Centre towers in Wan Chai in December. China Resources, one of the largest mainland Chinese conglomerates in Hong Kong, opened its China Resources Building Business Lounge at its building in the same neighbourhood two months earlier.

Swire Properties, the real estate unit of the Swire Group that already operates the Blueprint flexible workspace, is considering adding more space at its Two Taikoo Place commercial property in Quarry Bay, scheduled for completion in 2022.

“Across the entire market, landlords have increased the flexibility they offer to tenants,” property agent said. “There is increased emphasis from portfolio landlords to offer greater occupier amenity and experience, and it ranges from flexible office space, communal meeting and conferencing facilities.”

Hongkong Land owns about 450,000 square metres (4.84 million square feet) of prime office and retail space in Central. About 40 per cent of the company’s tenants are financial service institutions, while 30 per cent are law firms, Hongkong Land said.

The private suites at Centricity Flex range from 900 sq ft to 2,300 sq ft on the 17th floor while those on the 18th can be configured subject to client’s needs. Tenants of Centricity Flex can rent any of the seven meeting rooms, hot desks and working pods on an hourly basis.

The average monthly rent for grade A office space in Central has fallen to HK$100 per square foot, according to another property agent. The falling cost has attracted some tenants back to the area, with S&P moving back to Three Exchange Square in Central, from the International Commerce Centre (ICC) in West Kowloon, paying HK$2.2 million a month.

Co-working space with 50 desks at Centricity Flex costs an estimated HK$230,000 a month based on calculations by South China Morning Post, and comes with access to all services, including discounts at any of the restaurants in Hongkong Land’s portfolio such as the Michelin-starred Amber, with a month-long reservations waiting list.

“We want to have a relationship with you and then we move that relationship forward for many years, so it’s not just a short-term relationship; we want to have a relationship for generations,” Chow said. “It is also an extension of our services to our current tenants as all facilities in Centricity Flex are open to them. It’s not really co-working, but flexible facilities.”

(South China Morning Post)

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