需求弱甲厦租金料反覆向下

疫情下散业权甲厦业主渐减价放租，惟需求仍下跌，料租金中短綫仍反覆向下。

据代理十大商厦成交资料显示，3月份商厦交投持续淡静，十大商厦仅录2宗买卖。两宗买卖成交呎价偏低，金鐘力宝中心2座低层07至10室，以约8,390万成交，以楼面面积约3,648平方呎计，呎价约2.3万，低市价近2成，亦重回2017年水平，据悉，原业主为投资者罗守辉，去年10月以7,296万购入上址，故持货仅约半年，帐面获利1,094万，物业升值约15%。

星光行呎价 3年新低

另一宗买卖为尖沙咀星光行高层，面积约894平方呎，以约876万元易手，成交呎价约9,800元，为该厦近三年新低。

整体商厦租务气氛一般，该代理数据指出，3月份统计6个港岛核心商业区包括金鐘、铜锣湾、中环、上环、湾仔及黄竹坑，当中除了黄竹坑外，全部甲级商厦空置率都录得按月升幅，幅度约0.03至0.64个百分点不等。铜锣湾由2月约6.42%，急速升至最新约7.06%；湾仔区空置率升幅则紧随其后，单月增加0.3个百分点，至约6.97%；而上月已突破6%的金鐘区亦持续上升，增加0.03个百分点至约6.15%。

力宝中心呎租48元低叫价3成

代理表示，随着疫情扩散，环球营商气氛转差，不少机构停止扩充，近期亦有个别商户，因经营困难，向商厦业主提出减租，个别获业主同意，租金已有所回调。

该代理指，最近指标商厦租务成交上，租金已有回调，如力宝中心一个低层单位，面积逾3,000平方呎，业主去年中放盘时，每呎叫租约70元，其后一直减价，直至最近以每呎48元租出，减幅达3成，另上环信德中心单位中低层，业主去年以每呎72元招租，近日亦减价逾3成，至约48元租出，反映租金正在调整。

后市预测上，该代理分析，甲厦业主持货力强，放售时不愿大幅降价，寧把单位放租，按目前租务需求向下，业主愿减价招租，故相信疫情尚未过去，租务需求仍疲弱，料中短期内甲厦租金反覆向下。

(经济日报)

HK residential rents continue to slide

Rents in Pak Shek Kok are under downward pressure, as the monthly rent of a 1,348-square-foot flat at Providence Bay only costs HK$26,000 or HK$19.3 per sq ft, according to a property agency.

In Tai Po, a 258-sq-ft flat at Solaria was leased for HK$9,000 per month or HK$ 34.9 per sq ft, while in Sha Tin, a two-bedroom flat at City One Shatin was rented for HK$9,800 per month, or HK$32.2 per sq ft, after HK$1,200 was cut from the original asking rent.

Meanwhile, Michael Chan Yue-kwong, former chairman of Cafe de Coral (0341), bought a luxury house at Jade Grove in Tuen Mun for HK$31.88 million from Chinachem Group as a first-time homebuyer.

OCBC Wing Hang Bank expects Hong Kong's property price will fall by 15 percent year-on-year in 2020, with the local economy estimated to shrink 2.1 percent from the year before.

In the commercial property market, a property consultancy expects Grade A office rents to fall by 14 percent year-on-year in 2020.
At the same time, another property agency expects Grade A office buildings to see both rents and selling prices dwindle by 15-20 percent this year.

Rents of Grade A office buildings fell 4.5 percent month-on-month in March, the largest monthly decline since February 2009, agent said.

Meanwhile, another property agency only recorded 48 transactions of industrial, commercial properties and shops in the first half of April, down by around 47 percent month-on-month, with the total consideration falling by around 77 percent to HK$661 million.

(The Standard)