Tai Koo Shing rents go below $20,000
Rents at the blue-chip housing
estate Tai Koo Shing in Quarry Bay fell below HK$20,000 for the first time
since 2018, with a 580-sq-ft flat let for HK$19,500 per month, or HK$34 per sq
ft.
And in a secondary sale, a 580-sq-ft
flat at Tai Koo Shing went for HK$10.59 million, or HK$18,258 per sq ft, after
7 percent was cut from the asking price.
This came as the one-month Hong Kong
interbank offered rate, which is linked to the mortgage rate, rose to 2.05155
percent, the highest in nearly two months.
Meanwhile, S&P Global Ratings
believes Hong Kong's residential property transactions will remain sluggish
throughout the first half of the year, after dropping 27 percent year-on-year
during January and February. However, secondary prices have been relatively
resilient despite the global health emergency, it added.
(The Standard)
粉岭叶氏化工大厦放售全幢市值2.5亿
近期在淡市中，全幢工厦仍不乏追捧，有业主放售粉岭区工厦。叶氏化工大厦全幢放售，市值2.5亿，该厦亦同时放租，意向呎租约12元。
代理表示，粉岭安乐村工业区叶氏化工大厦，全幢推出放售，现址为一幢6层楼高工厦，落成于1990年，地盘面积约12895方呎，全幢总建筑面积63896方呎，标準层楼底约3.45米高，可以全幢交吉交易，方便买家作自用扩充，以全幢市值约2.5亿计算，平均呎价约3912元。
意向呎租12元
该代理又表示，该厦同时全幢放租，意向呎租约12元，全幢意向月租逾76万。
资料显示，去年粉岭安乐村全幢工厦录成交，区内业主捷和实业增持安乐门街15号全幢工厦，作价1.5亿，以成交价计算，楼面呎价约3100元，该厦佔地9745方呎，总楼面48431方呎，平均呎价约3097元，属市价。捷和实业为电器生产。
佔地12895方呎
粉岭安乐村工业区佔地约351万方呎，拥有98幢工厦，政府于区内持有20多幅休憩用地及临时车场，区内工厦逾70%工厦为单一业权。
在2018年7月，政府亦推出安全街工业地块，由亿京以7.32亿投得，最高可建楼面面积约20.26万方呎，楼面呎价3617元，创全港工业地每方呎楼面地价新高。
(星岛日报)
东亚银行3.5亿沽宝珊道屋地
市况受多项不利因素影响，豪宅地皮亦录减价成交。消息指，东亚银行 (00023) 李氏家族以3.5亿沽出西半山宝珊道屋地，减价3成。
市场人士透露，西半山宝珊道21号易手，地盘面积18,900平方呎，现建有一幢8,135平方呎的大屋，以3.5亿元成交，呎价约4.3万元。
减价3成 呎价约4.3万
据了解，该项目由东亚银行李氏家族，早于去年5月委託测量师行进行放售，意向价约5亿元。及后本港经历半年多社会事件，投资市场受冲击，豪宅成交亦减少。本年初新冠肺炎疫情爆发，影响投资者信心，业主降价至3.5亿元沽货，减价3成。土地註册处资料显示，原业主于2000年以9,000万元购入，是次转手获利约2.6亿元，物业升值2.9倍。
宝珊道为西半山地势最高的街道之一，由于该地段街道的物业不多，故物业成交较为疏落，近年地段新项目，为宝珊道18号尚璟。
最近市场录得零星豪宅屋地成交，包括廖创兴家族成员沽出浅水湾道92号屋地，涉资约5.5亿元，地盘面积约1万平方呎，地积比率约0.9倍，可建楼面约9,000平方呎，每呎楼面地价逾6万元。买家料为资本策略 (00497) 等人。
(经济日报)
名錶店难「免疫」 Rolex撤出罗素街
新冠肺炎下，旅游业受重创，高级鐘錶店纷收缩撤离核心区。消息指，劳力士(Rolex)铜锣湾专门店将撤出罗素街，业主以150万元放租，料较高峰期跌7成；另Swatch group旗下两名錶旗舰店，亦将提早迁出尖沙咀1881。
有代理分析，核心零售区在旅客大减下，不少品牌生意急挫，故要收缩业务。她指出，不论本地或欧美品牌，在疫症全球大流行下，销售数字跌至极低，现金流受影响，加上未来数月零售仍不乐观，品牌定暂停扩充计划。她预计，品牌将续出现迁出核心区，而营商前景欠佳，趁机开业的商户不多，交吉铺位数字再增，铺租跌势将更明显。
罗素街铺150万放租 低高峰7成
铜锣湾核心地段罗素街8号地下铺位，由英皇集团持有，并由旗下珠宝鐘錶集团经营，作名錶劳力士的专门店，已开业多年。该铺楼底高，甚具气派。消息指，业主见市况转差，打算放弃经营，并把铺位于市场放租，每月意向约150万元，面积约2,693平方呎，呎租约557元。事实上，按罗素街高峰期，呎租达2,000元以上计，已较高峰期跌7成。
罗素街为旅客必到购物地段，有代理的报告指出，罗素街多次成为全球最贵铺租地段，包括2018及2019年过去两年。
至于尖沙咀区，亦出现鐘錶店提早退租情况。Swatch group早年租用尖沙咀广东道1881号商场两大复式铺位，作旗下两大名錶宝珀(Blancpain)及宝璣(Breguet)旗舰店之用。
欧米茄早前 关时代广场店
瑞士名錶宝珀(Blancpain)，租用1881商场2楼铺位，面积逾3,000平方呎，近日已关门，店外贴上「暂时关闭营业，直至另行通知」。至于宝璣(Breguet)租用1881地下复式铺位，面积约3,000平方呎，该铺面向广东道，加上两层高，属商场最优质商铺之一，据悉亦即将暂停业务。业内人士指，两铺高峰期每组铺位月租达600万元，租金合共1,200万元，及后续租每月料降至约400万元，翻查资料，租客去年3月与业主续租，至明年3月才约满，现今料提早离场。
另较早前，Swatch
group旗下欧米茄(Omega)亦关掉数间分店，包括时代广场8楼，面积约2,000平方呎，分店近日正式关闭。该集团早前表示，因应市况将关闭数间分店。
(经济日报)
九龙商厦空置率 上月轻微回落
有代理数据指，2月份九龙商厦空置率略为改善，多区出现轻微回落。
2月份共统计9个九龙区甲厦空置率表现，当中包括尖沙咀及观塘等6区空置率录得跌幅，2月份统计共9区甲级商厦空置，包括尖沙咀、旺角、九龙湾、观塘、长沙湾及荃湾等，当中6个地区甲厦空置率按月录减幅。
尖沙咀作为九龙核心商业区，2月份区内甲厦空置率录得约4.82%，对比1月下跌约0.1个百分点；而九龙东核心区的观塘写字楼最新空置率同见改善，按月下跌约0.22个百分点，下调至约11.07%。
该代理行指，以指标商厦观察分析，尖沙咀区12幢甲级商厦中，有7幢空置率见递减，以力宝太阳广场减幅最大，由11.73%减至2月约8.73%，按月下跌约3%。另一向来成交不少的指标商厦新港中心空置率都有所下调，2月份录得约6.04%，对比1月减少约0.9个百分点。尖东方面，永安广场空置率同样递减，最新录得约12.56%，按月跌幅约1.16个百分点。而2月份录得租务成交的尖沙咀商厦租金皆见回落，例如前述永安广场2月平均成交呎租约39.4元，按月下跌约0.4元；而减幅较为明显的为东海商业中心，由1月平均呎租约42元，跌至最新约32.5元，减幅逾两成。
观塘皇廷广场 单月7宗租务
另2月份统计的7幢观塘区写字楼中，有5幢大厦空置率见回落。当中皇廷广场表现最佳，单月录得7宗租务成交，令空置率按月下调0.6个百分点至约7.24%，而平均成交呎租亦由1月约26.9元减至约23.6元，减幅约12%；而向来空置率逾5成的中海日升中心，跌幅最见明显，单月下跌约1.85个百分点，至约55.6%；另沿海甲厦万兆丰中心2月空置率录得约5.98%，按月下跌约0.88个百分点。
该代理行认为，九龙区写字楼租金一向较港岛相宜，而且不少为优质且拥开扬海景景观的甲厦，例如尖东就有海景商厦，租金对比港岛区更具吸引力。事实上，「去中环化」已经不是近期议题，加上因肺炎疫情来势汹汹，本港营商前景满布阴霾，企业维持营运都是一大难题，现时租户多以节省成本为主，相信租金具竞争性会是企业考虑重要因素，而踏入3月份，本港疫情转趋严峻，料会进一步影响企业承租心态，即使九龙写字楼空置率也会无可避免地跟随大市而轻微上调，租金方面则会继续寻底。
(经济日报)
财团突放弃收购鸭脷洲旧楼疫情及股市波动影响
新冠肺炎疫情持续，影响楼市气氛，财团亦放慢併购旧楼步伐，据消息人士指，近期获财团斥资逾2亿併购的鸭脷洲大街旧楼项目，集齐近八成业权，但阻于经济形势转差，楼价呈下滑，突放弃整个收购计画。
近年市区土地供应不足，不少财团均透过併购旧楼藉以增加土储，消息指，鸭脷洲大街双号旧楼，由去年10月起，已有财团出价收购该旧楼业权，据悉，每呎收购价约1.8万，每个住宅单位收购价介乎900万至1000万，近日已集齐八成业权，共涉资逾两亿，而业主亦需要把订金退还予财团。
但由于近期受疫情影响，整体投资气氛进一步转差，加上收购难度高，以及担心经济进一步转差，目前突然放弃收购整个项目。
已集八成业权涉两亿
该旧楼项目现为2幢楼高6层的物业，涉及约20个住宅单位，以及4个地铺，楼龄大约50年。邻近港铁利东站，约5分鐘步程，出入交通便捷，地盘面积约3634方呎，若以地积比约8倍发展，可建楼面面积约2.9万方呎。
领航集团主席高兆霆表示，随着去年下半年起出现连串示威活动，加上新冠肺炎突然来袭，多家食肆及零售店铺结业，失业率回升，发展商对收楼併购态度自然转趋审慎，出价会较低，但由于部分业主没有打算减价放售，令收购旧楼的难度增加。
业主需退还订金
有收楼界人士分析道，上述鸭脷洲大道虽然位处港岛区，地段不俗，不过，该地盘面积不足4000方呎，重建限制较大，而且地盘规模细，建筑费特别高，有不少大型财团却步，加上近期市况较去年下半年更加差，而且资产贬值下，市场上投资选择增加，财团容易为资金找到其他出路，相对收购旧楼将锁死手头资金，兴趣自然下降。
可建楼面约2.9万呎
有代理表示，新冠肺炎肆虐，市场观望气氛浓厚，中、小型发展商虽然主攻规模较细的项目，但阻于市场气氛欠佳、失业率上升及楼价下跌，将令发展商承受较大的发展风险，加上中、小型发展商资金流相对狭窄，故料于现时市况下，对旧楼收购取态将趋保守审慎。
该代理补充，大型发展商情况却相反，因其本身资金雄厚，具财政实力购入旧楼多年作土地储备，作为日后发展之用，发展项目需时多年，待项目落成开售时，届时市况有机会已告好转，故料大型发展商于现时市况下，不会减慢收购旧楼步伐。
(星岛日报)
长沙湾新平工厦6.4亿沽第一集团承接併毗邻地盘发展
新冠肺炎重挫工商铺投资气氛，惟实力财团趁此时大手入货，消息指，第一集团斥资6.4亿，购入长沙湾道916至922号新平工业大厦全幢，平均楼面呎价约5555元，将併毗邻地盘发展，总投资金额达28亿。
第一集团董事魏深仪称，长沙湾道916至922号新平工业大厦全幢，集团以6.4亿购入，佔地约9600方呎，地积比12倍，可建楼面约11.5万方呎，平均呎价约5555元。他指出，上述项目与集团早前购入的长沙湾道924至926号为相邻，两个地盘可合併发展，佔地面积共约2.16万方呎，可重建约26万方呎，暂定重建商厦，总投资额约28亿，计画于2023年落成。
魏深仪：投资额28亿
土地註册处资料显示，原业主为百丽环球有限公司(BELLE WORLDWIDE LIMITED)，註册董事宋福旺，于2008年以一篮子形式以2.85亿购入。
代理称，该行统计9区甲厦空置率，包括尖沙嘴、旺角、九龙湾、观塘、长沙湾及荃湾等，当中6个地区甲厦空置率按月录减幅。代理称，尖沙嘴作为九龙核心商业区，上月区内甲厦空置率约4.82%，对比1月跌约0.1%；九龙东核心区观塘商厦最新空置亦见改善，按月跌约0.22%，下调至约11.07%。
(星岛日报)
罗守辉呎价2.3万沽力宝
由资深投资者罗守辉持有的金鐘力宝中心低层，以8390万卖公司易手，呎价约2.3万，低市价约18%，持货仅约半年，帐面获利约15%。
持货半年升值约15%
市场消息指出，上址为金鐘力宝中心2座低层07至10室，以买卖公司形式，作价约8390万成交，以楼面面积约3648方呎计，呎价约2.3万。据代理指出，成交低市价约18%，重回2017年首季水平，罗守辉于去年10月以7296万购入上址，故持货仅约半年，帐面获利1094万，物业升值约15%。
伊利近街铺3400万沽
中环伊利近街36号地铺，面积约1000方呎，早前以6800万放售，经多番议价后以3400万成交，呎价约3.4万，低市价约30%，以月租8万计算，回报约2.8%。原业主早于1987年以68万购入，故持货33年，帐面获利3332万，升值49倍。该铺周边有发展商收购，铺位造价一般5000万以上。
尖沙嘴麼地道63号好时中心地下8室铺，以1428万成交，原业主投资者唐楚男，本来叫价2400万，大幅减价成交，数年前以买公司形式承接，现址药房，现时月租4.2万，两年前月租6万。
上环荷李活道双号地铺，面积约900方呎，附设400方呎入阁，以约2000万成交，平均呎价约22222元；据悉，该铺现时由鞋店以3.9万承租，回报约2.34厘。代理指，该地段铺位一般叫价介乎2500万至3000万。
(星岛日报)
强拍申请1日批3宗值逾21亿
新冠肺炎疫情肆虐，使今季强拍审批进展缓慢。法庭昨日连环批出3宗强拍申请，共值逾21亿元，其中由老牌发展商协成行申请强拍的筲箕湾东大街义德大厦，强拍底价为8.04亿元。
由老牌发展商协成行申请强拍的筲箕湾东大街义德大厦，属于8层高商住大厦，于1966年落成，项目佔地约7,680平方呎，属于「住宅(甲类)」用途，可建住宅楼面约6.9万平方呎。法庭批出强拍底价为8.04亿元。
筲箕湾义德大厦底价8亿
另外，由深圳南瑞投资徐凯祥等相关人士提出强拍的尖沙咀金巴利道49至51号金兴大厦，亦获以底价6.525亿元批出强拍令，预计可重建作商厦，以可建楼面约8.64万平方呎计，每呎楼面地价约7,550元。
大鸿辉收购及申请强拍的上环德辅道西及西安里安庆楼，获法庭颁下强制拍卖令，可建楼面约5.37万平方呎，以拍卖底价7亿元，每呎楼面约1.3万元。
位于上环德辅道西326至332号及西安里11A至11D的安庆楼，现为1幢9层高商住旧楼，于1959年落成，佔地约6,172平方呎，发展商大鸿辉于多年前展开收购，并于2018年申请强拍，今获法庭审议，最终以底价7亿元颁下拍卖令。
地盘现划为「住宅甲类」用途，若以8.7倍商住地积比计算，可建楼面约5.37万平方呎，以拍卖底价计，每呎楼面地价约1.3万元，预计可重建成1幢27至32层高商住楼宇，而发展商在项目周边尚有多个收购地盘，估计有机会连同一併发展。
(经济日报)
World’s costliest offices are poised to enter tenants’ market as Hong Kong businesses reel from coronavirus, protest movement
Hong Kong’s notoriously pricey office rental sector is fast becoming a tenants’ market as last year’s protest movement and the current coronavirus pandemic have prompted struggling companies to bail on their leases.
A huge increase in firms, from co-working space providers to finance companies and retailers, abandoning their offices before the contracts expire has helped free up space and contributed to a fall in rental rates.
“Given that real estate is one of the single largest costs in operating a business, particularly in Hong Kong, lease surrender cases are becoming more prevalent as a means to generate savings,” said Chris Cohen, a data analyst at Savvi, a Hong Kong-based data driven real estate platform founded in 2018 that specialises in office, off-market and lease surrender opportunities.
Office rents across the city have been falling hard this year, with vacancy rates in areas like Admiralty and Central soaring as the health crisis further saps demand already dented by months of social unrest. Many analysts see the situation worsening this year.
Companies that surrender space have typically overextended themselves through expansion or “are currently paying market-peak rentals in what is one of the world’s most expensive office markets,” said Cohen.
Firms that gave up office space this year were predominantly mainland Chinese ones and those whose businesses were hit particularly hard by the virus and last year’s social unrest, such as retailers, according to a real estate agent.
Sometimes the rental contract can be broken legally if tenant and landlord reach agreement on terms, which might include compensation.
“If their business or operation is affected, they will consider cost-saving exercises more seriously”, which may include surrendering some office space, the agent added.
“They either cut the size or move to cheaper places. Surrender means they would seek replacement [tenants] during the lease,” the agent added.
The number of so-called surrendered listings for Hong Kong office space in the first three months of 2020 was double that for the whole of last year, according to Savvi, which cooperates with landlords, agents and tenants to deliver property services in cities including New York, Singapore and Shanghai. Savvi says it has a network of more than 10,000 tenants, giving it access to a large amount of listing data.
Hong Kong Island alone has recorded 500,000 to 600,000 square feet of surrendered listings so far this year, almost twice the 250,000 to 350,000 sq ft during the whole of 2019, the company said. The 600,000 sq ft is equivalent to the size of 9.3 standard football pitches measuring 6,000 sq m each.
The amount of space vacated in the first three months has been almost 10 times the quantity in the same period last year by square footage, said Cohen.
“We anticipate a month-on-month increase of 20 to 30 per cent in surrender and upcoming lease listings ... for at least the next three months,” he added.
Reasons for surrender, which can release tenants from their existing lease obligations, include restructuring, downsizing, insolvency, merger and acquisition, or even expansion.
“It is also in pressing times, due in part to the months of social unrest and the current Covid-19, that businesses are forced to think outside the box,” Cohen said. “Landlords’ sentiment is also changing, and some are facilitating surrender cases within their portfolio, as a last resort.”
Since many surrender listings are also handled off-market or on a confidential basis, the jump may actually be greater than the figures suggest.
Recent cases of surrendered office space have been seen in some of Hong Kong’s busiest commercial zones, including Central, Admiralty, Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay.
Co-working operator WeWork last month surrendered 30,000 square feet on two floors at Hysan Place, Causeway Bay, and 120,000 square feet at The Gateway in Tsim Sha Tsui, according to market sources. WeWork was paying a monthly rate of about HK$100 (US$12.89) per sq ft at Hysan Place and about HK$60 per sq ft at The Gateway. The leases were only signed last year.
“At the moment, we are focusing on our top priority of ensuring members across the world have a safe workplace environment,” WeWork told the Post in an email last week, referring to the Covid-19 pandemic.
CreditEase, a fintech company from mainland China, surrendered its office in the International Financial Centre, measuring about 5,000 sq ft last month. It was leased at about HK$170 per sq ft, according to market sources. The lease was supposed to expire in the third quarter of 2021. CreditEase did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
“As the Covid-19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic, this will inevitably exacerbate market volatility and negative sentiment,” another agent. “The office market will be significantly dampened in the near term.”
The vacancy rate was the most serious in Admiralty at 6.1 per cent in February, the highest since April 2014, with almost one in five floors of Bank of America Tower empty, according to another real estate agency.
Average rents for offices in Admiralty sank 22.6 per cent on the year to HK$90.1 per sq ft in February, according to the real estate agency.
The average Hong Kong office rent will slide to HK$60.6 per sq ft in 2021, down 16.8 per cent from last year, as the market “transitions to a tenant-friendly” one, according to a report by an agency firm.
Rents in Central contracted by 3.2 per cent month-on-month to HK$116.1 per sq ft in February, the sharpest monthly decline since the financial crisis of 2008, agent said.
(South China Morning Post)
海防道药房连环结业 减8成招租
新冠肺炎下旅客数字跌至谷底，重创零售业。尖沙咀一綫零售段、九龙「呎租铺王」海防道，最近先后有3家药房结业，其中一药房近日迁出，业主以每月20万元招租，较高峰期大跌8成。
有代理分析，海防道近10年成内地客必到之处，亦因广东道名店效应，海防道多为二綫品牌及药房集中地。代理指，在目前旅客急跌，海防道租客难以负担数十万月租，故相信结业情况更多。后市方面，他预计当月租跌至10餘万水平，一些主打本地客生意的商户可负担，便渐见承接力。
代理：月租跌至10万具承接
以往成游客集中地，逼得水洩不通的海防道，最近人流大幅减少，加上近日疫情严峻，街道显得相当冷清。租户方面，地段曾成兵家必争之地，惟近日吉铺明显增加，当中3间药房在近两星期先后迁出。
尖沙咀海防道31号，铺位面积约890平方呎，原由药房租用，月租约50餘万元，租约至本月，而租客上星期已迁出。代理透露，目前业主以每月约20万元放租，呎租225元，较前租金减半。事实上，该铺高峰期时，曾以100万租出，如今意向租金，较高峰大跌8成。
20组铺位 6个乏长租客
本报记者现场所见，连同老凤祥金行早前弃租铺位，以及一个时装店租铺，海防道地段20组铺位中，便有6个铺位乏长租客，空置率三份之一，亦为近年最高。
租金方面，海防道为本港零售指标，10年前游人如鯽，该地段平均呎租平均约500至600元，铺位月租约40至50万元起，其后访港旅客踏入高峰，各大品牌抢租铺位，包括周大福曾斥260万，租用地段一铺，呎租约1,800餘元，一度取代广东道，成九龙「呎租铺王」。直至近年，旅客消费模式转变，奢侈品渐放缓扩充，地段成交呎租，重回约500至600元。
去年中，社会事件爆发，访港旅客急挫，如今遇上疫症，双重打击下铺租急回落。对上一宗成交，为本月海防道海防道47号地下连1楼，合共面积约1,050平方呎，获中药保健品零售商维特健灵以约25万租用，近日正式开业，呎租仅约200餘元，重返逾10年前水平。
事实上，旅客数字已跌至近乎零外，近日疫情严重，政府日前实施禁酒令等，多种因素下，本港零售、餐饮业遇上重大挑战，近期相继出现金行、錶行及餐厅，需短期暂停营业，而个别结业的商铺，亦因营商前景差，暂乏人承接，预计核心区吉铺数字持续上升，租金遇上沉重下跌压力。
(经济日报)
太古地产鰂鱼涌持4项目 楼面逾344万呎
近年港岛东一带的鰂鱼涌、太古，逐渐发展成商业中心区，区内7个重建项目，将提供逾440万平方呎商业楼面，特别是区内大地主太古地产(01972) 区内持有的项目，涉及344万平方呎楼面。
太古早在逾100年前已经在鰂鱼涌扎根发展，在区内兴建糖厂、船坞以至汽水厂，并在1990年代开始重建成太古坊商业区，并一直在扩大商业王国版图，目前太古地产在区内4个项目，涉及楼面面积达344.2万平方呎。
太古坊2座商厦 2021年落成
当中和域大厦、康和大厦及常盛大厦三幢工厦，已经陆续重建成太古坊一座及二座，合共提供200万平方呎楼面。太古坊一座已经在2018年落成，楼高48层，涉及约100万平方呎楼面，属于区内近年规模最大的甲级商厦。至于太古坊二座亦会兴建一幢总楼面约100万平方呎的商厦，预计将于2021年左右落成。
而收购多年的仁孚工业大厦、华厦工业大厦，以及滨海街一带的旧楼，太古亦陆续进行重建，当中仁孚及华厦工业大厦两幢工厦佔地达5万平方呎，现时属于商业规划用途，邻近太古城的商业区，预计将会重建成商厦，可建楼面达78万平方呎。
滨海街16至94号 拟作商业发展
至于由太古地产与恒地 (00012)合作收购的滨海街16至94号一排旧楼，佔地2万多平方呎，属于「住宅(甲类)」用途，但由于邻近太古坊商业区，若果作为商业用途发展，将地积比率提升至15倍，可建楼面约65.8万平方呎。
而位于英皇道704号至730号、七姊妹道201号至227号的吉祥大厦，由新世界 (00017) 收购之后，已经在去年重建成甲级商厦K11 ATELIER King's Road，楼高22层，总楼面面积达44万平方呎。
由太平协和持有，位于鰂鱼涌海滨的海裕街地盘，亦在近年完成规划，发展商与政府达成原址换地协议，将会兴建5幢10至13层高酒店及零售的商业项目，地积比率4.4倍，总发展楼面约40万平方呎，其中酒店楼面逾18.88万平方呎，另设逾12.4万平方呎楼面作食肆及零售用途，以及写字楼楼面则逾8.68万平方呎。
随着鰂鱼涌一带的旧楼、工厦陆续完成重建，区内将增加440万平方呎的商业楼面，连同太古城现有的甲级商厦，区内商业楼面将超过700万平方呎楼面。
(经济日报)
铜锣湾霎东街全幢2.8亿售长情业主沽货56年升值1957倍
受新冠肺炎肆虐影响，市场观望气氛浓罩，惟核心区物业仍受追捧，再录大手成交。铜锣湾霎东街6号全幢以2.8亿成交，原业主为长情业主，持货56年，物业升值1957倍。市传买家为希慎兴业。
市场观望气氛阴霾密布，惟核心区再录大手成交。据土地註册处资料显示，铜锣湾霎东街6号全幢于上月24日以约2.8亿成交，买家以公司名义登记，为ISLE NOBLE INVESTMENTS LIMITED，为海外註册公司；据业内人士指出，该厦地盘面积约743方呎，楼高3层，总楼面面积2972方呎，平均呎价约94212元，市传买家为希慎兴业。
1964年以14.3万购入
此外，资料亦显示，原业主林姓人士于1964年7月以14.3万购入物业，再分别于1990年及2015年由家人以遗产形式接手，故持货56年，帐面获利约2.79亿，物业期间升值约1957倍。事实上，该厦于今年1月以招标形式开售，据外资测量师资料显示，该厦早前曾被租予时装零售租户，物业外墙可作大型广告位。
盛滙基金创办人李根兴表示，如果单独来看，上述铺位非常昂贵，若购入连旁边地盘重建，则不算贵，之前，黎永滔亦沽售霎东街2号地铺，作价约1.8亿。他估计，买家同一地段发展商希慎。
市传希慎兴业承接
有代理表示，荃湾荃景围86号荃湾中心1期高层地下C14号铺买卖，面积约228方呎，以约282万成交，呎价约12368元，租客为自助洗衣店，月租约7500元，租金回报约3.1厘；另一成交为相同屋苑2期高层地下15号铺，面积约142方呎，以约170万成交，呎价约11972元，由髮型屋以6900元承租，租金回报约4.87厘。
(星岛日报)
九龙塘施他佛道屋地减价半亿沽
新冠肺炎持续爆发，贵重豪宅物业楼价亦出现调整，市场消息昨传出，九龙塘施他佛道一幅单号数屋地，减价约半亿元沽出，为近一周区内连录两宗大幅减价成交。
新冠肺炎确诊数字连日内不断上升，部分豪宅业主已不惜将物业大幅减价，吸引不少投资者入市捞货，据市场消息指出，九龙塘施他佛道一幅单号数屋地，开价2.5亿元，近日疫情爆发下，业主已将叫价降至2亿元，近日并传出已转售的消息。
屋地地盘面积5,500平方呎，地积比率0.6倍，可建楼面面积3,300平方呎，物业现有面积为3,804平方呎，成交呎价52,576元，洋房并有前后花园约1,380呎，以及平台及天台共1,600呎。
2亿元售帐面获利1.48亿
原业主于2005年以5,200万元购入，持货15年，帐面获利1.48亿元，升值2.8倍。
事实上，最近区内连环传出贵重屋地易手的消息，由香港基督教播道会联会持有的九龙塘金巴伦道15号屋地，业主叫价3亿放售，最新以约2.4亿元沽出，佔地10,180平方呎，以地积比率0.6倍计算，可建楼面6,108平方呎，每平方呎地价约3.93万元。
另外，由廖创兴家族成员持有的港岛南区浅水湾道92号屋地，亦以公司股权转让方式易手，市传作价约5.5亿元，属今年最大宗豪宅成交，地盘面积10,085平方呎，现建有一幢3层高住宅，最大可重建楼面7,563平方呎，楼面地价72,722元。
(经济日报)
新纪元广场配套足上环指标商厦
上环新纪元广场位于皇后大道中，处传统商业心臟地段，配套亦充足，属区内指标商厦之一。
项目于1998年落成，属新世界发展(00017) 及市建局重建项目「新纪元广场」一部分，提供两幢商厦，中远大厦称为新纪元广场高座，楼层较少的为新纪元广场低座大楼。
两座大楼中间为露天广场，设有喷水池及座位。广场连贯从皇后大道及德辅道中两条主要街道，平日甚多上班人士经过。低座外墙装有大电视，大厦旁有鐘楼，整个项目观感甚佳，设计上有风格。
车位有限售价屡创纪录
交通方面，港铁站出口在大厦旁，附近有多条巴士綫及电车直达，此外，由于大厦邻近西隧，往返九龙方便，而停车场设于中远大厦内，值得一提，由于车位数目非常有限，该厦车位售价屡创全港车位售价纪录。总括而言，整体交通四通八达。饮食配套方面，大厦设有两层高商场，设有酒楼、快餐店等，而上班人士可到永乐街、苏杭街、德辅道中的地铺，而附近亦有柏廷坊等银座式商厦，有一定餐厅数量，上班族亦可到中环用膳。
新纪元广场为上环商厦中楼龄较新，物业早年由发展商持有，及后转售给外资基金，不时进行翻新及管理。大厦直至2009年第三季才展开拆售，故物业属区内可供买卖商厦中，质素最理想之一。
电梯大堂设于3楼，可从扶手电梯直上。大堂共分两个升降机地段，分别通往低层及高层单位。
楼高28层景观受遮挡
大厦楼高28层，每层面积约15,451平方呎，5楼以上为写字楼。每层大致上可分间6个单位，景观上，几乎所有单位同一坐向，大致上望向露天广场景，以及皇后大道中楼景，由于面前多商厦，景观受遮挡，高层单位亦被前面商厦遮挡，未能享全景。
翻查历史，大厦曾多番转手。2000年，新加坡基金GIC以13.8亿元，向大厦发展商购入新纪元广场低座全幢，并于05年以23.75亿元，转售予澳洲MGPA基金。该基金于2009年以拆售形式推出，当时楼市正从金融海啸后楼市復甦，结果反应极佳，数月内全数楼面沽清。最大手成交为投资者「台湾张」，以约10亿元购入10层单位。
(经济日报)
中环甲厦租金急挫3.2%海啸后单月最大跌幅 代理：受疫症影响需求迅速放缓
新冠肺炎肆虐，拖累核心区甲厦租金备受压力。据代理的统计资料显示，随着租务需求大幅放缓，带动整体甲厦租金于今年2月下跌约2.2%，当中以中环为「重灾区」，该区甲厦呎租新报116.1元，按月下跌约3.2%，为金融海啸以来单月跌幅新高。
新冠肺炎于年初爆发，令本港经济前景阴霾密布，拖累甲厦租金。有代理昨日公布的报告指出，受新冠肺炎影响，令租户承租步伐放缓，整体甲厦市场于上月录得18.93万方呎负吸纳量。
录逾18.9万呎负吸纳
代理表示，由于租赁需求下降令各主要写字楼市场空置率均见上升，整体写字楼租金跌幅于2月进一步扩大，按月下跌2.2%，其中，中环甲厦平均呎租报116.1元，按月下跌3.2%，为2008至09年金融海啸以来录得的最大单月跌幅。
代理称，现时市况将影响多个行业的营商气氛，并在短期内妨碍其商业计画，导致个别企业暂缓搬迁及扩张计画，与此同时，部分企业反而趁势争取更佳的租赁弹性和交易结构逆流而上。然而，不论短期市况如何，租约即将到期的企业，均需在调整商业计画的同时解决上述问题。
甲厦空置率6.3%
此外，该代理行亦公布甲厦空置率资料，2月整体甲厦空置率约6.3%，较1月的6.1%按月上升约3.28%，若以各区划分，中环空置率于上月报4.2%，较1月的4%，按月升约5%，湾仔及铜锣湾上月空置率报4.8%，较1月的4.4%，按月上升约9%。
该行报告指出，随租户寻求更具成本效益的办公地点，中环以外地区录得多宗成交，当中较为引人瞩目的交易包括环联承租尖沙嘴港威大厦五座的1.77万方呎楼面，以搬迁并扩充位于海港城的办事处。由于租户对控制租金成本维持审慎，大多数租赁需求均集中于顶级写字楼以外的地点。
(星岛日报)
Deposit forfeits surge as banks tighten up lending
Forfeiture of deposit cases surged 50 percent in new projects as banks are believed to have tightened lending when the overall Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate rallied.
The first-hand property market has recorded at least 31 forfeiture of deposit cases, costing nearly HK$35 million since March.
The one-month Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate, which is linked to the mortgage rate, also hit a one-month high and rose to 1.849 percent.
A mortgage brokerage services provider says Hibor rates will keep increasing for some time due to funds squeeze. Three-month Hibor may drop in line with US interest rates.
In the secondary market, a 770-square-foot flat at Alto Residences in Tseung Kwan O changed hands for HK$13.2 million, incurring a loss of about HK$7 million after paying commission fees and stamp duties.
Property consultancy said the vacancy rate of Grade A office buildings rose 0.2 percentage points month-on-month to 6.3 percent last month, and office rent dropped 2.2 percent from a month before, as the coronavirus outbreak has dampened leasing demand.
In Central, the vacancy rate grew 0.2 percentage points month-on-month to 4.2 percent in February, and office rents fell 3.2 percent month-on-month to HK$116.1 per sq ft - the biggest monthly decline since 2008.
(The Standard)
金鐘海富中心每呎42元放租
受新冠肺炎肆虐影响，带动核心区甲厦租金持续调整，部分业主趁机推出旗下物业放租，金鐘海富中心1期低层单位以每呎42元放租，涉资约11万。
代理表示，上述放租物业为金鐘夏道18号海富中心1期低层单位，面积约2625方呎，以意向租金约11万放租，呎租约42元。代理称，与该甲厦其他成交租盘比较，呎租属于低水平，故对用家甚具吸引力。
每月租金11万
海富中心为金鐘区内指标甲厦之一，惟受近期新冠肺炎肆虐影响，令该甲厦租金亦备受压力。资料显示，该甲厦1座1801室，面积6135方呎，于本月初以每呎40元租出，租金245400元。据区内代理分析道，上述租金较市价低约15%，并重回4年前水平，单位前租客为航空公司，2017年中呎租约46元，与最新租金比较，下跌幅度约13%。
另外，据大型代理行报告显示，金鐘区内甲厦空置率新报约6.12%，属过去6年新高水平，足见该区甲厦租金持续调整，吸引用家趁低吸纳进驻。
(星岛日报)
Bargain prices boost secondary sales
Lower home prices tempted bargain-hunters back to the market despite the coronavirus pandemic, with transactions at blue-chip estates doubling over the weekend.
Real estate agency reported 17 transactions at ten major housing estates over the past weekend, up by 113 percent from a week before.
This came as Hong Kong recorded 48 new coronavirus cases on March 20, the biggest daily tally since testing began.
However, Tai Koo Shing in Quarry Bay and Laguna City in Kwun Tong saw no secondary transactions.
Among secondary transactions, a 718-sq-ft flat at Sceneway Garden in Lam Tin changed hands for HK$11.95 million, or HK$16,643 per sq ft, after HK$2.55 million was rubbed off the asking price.
In Tai Po, a 1,606-sq-ft luxury house at The Beverly Hills fetched HK$15.3 million, or HK$9,527 per sq ft. The vendor will incur a loss of around HK$2 million after paying commission fees and stamp duties.
In Tin Shui Wai, a 550-sq-ft flat at Kingswood Villas changed hands for HK$5.38 million, or HK$9,782 per sq ft, after HK$620,000 was slashed from the asking price.
And in Tsuen Wan, a two-bedroom flat at Allway Gardens sold for HK$4.55 million, or HK$10,436 per sq ft, after HK$50,000 was cut from the asking price.
In the rentals market, a 1,668-sq-ft flat at The Aria in Ngau Chi Wan was rented for HK$46,500 per month, or HK$27.9 per sq ft, after HK$9,500 or 17 percent was cut from the initial asking fee.
Meanwhile, a 420-sq-ft flat at The Arch at Kowloon Station was rented for HK$20,000 per month, or HK$47.6 per sq ft.
In the primary market, prospective buyers have been pulling out of deals over fears of price declines sparked by the outbreak, with 28 forfeiture cases recorded so far this month, according to reports.
A buyer forfeited a deposit of around HK$190,000 after calling off the purchase of a 223-sq-ft flat at Emerald Bay Phase 2 in Tuen Mun, priced at HK$3.75 million.
Another forfeiture came at Seaside Sonata in Sham Shui Po where a deposit of some HK$784,000 was given up after a prospective buyer backed out of the purchase of a 695-sq-ft flat that was offered at HK$15.68 million, or HK$22,558 per sq ft.
Elsewhere, Wheelock Properties sold 68 out of 102 flats on offer at Ocean Marini in Lohas Park on Saturday.
(The Standard)
Wheelock’s Ocean Marini flat sales run out of steam in second round as Hong Kong buyers stay home amid spiking coronavirus cases
Wheelock Properties’ second batch of flat sales in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district ran into the city’s biggest daily increase in confirmed coronavirus infections, a deterioration that kept an estimated 20 per cent of registered buyers at home.
The developer sold 82 flats, or 80 per cent, of the 102 units on offer at its Ocean Marini project as of 9pm, according to sales agents, failing to repeat last weekend’s sell-out launch. Separately, two flats each at the Marini and Grand Marini projects by the same developer in the same neighbourhood found owners.
Nearly 2,300 people put down cheque deposits to register their interest to purchase, which means 22 potential buyers for every available flat, agents said. However, an estimated 20 per cent of the registrants stayed away, after the city reported 48 new cases of coronavirus yesterday in its biggest daily increase.
“There has been less of a turnout as the pandemic worsened over the past week,” a real estate agent said. “The volatility of the US stock market has also had an impact on buyer sentiment.”
Wheelock had better luck last weekend, when buyers turned up in droves to snap up Hong Kong’s first residential property launch in two months, helped by generous discounts.
The flats on sale this weekend were mostly two and three-bedroom units from 472 square feet to 1,061 sq ft (98 square metres), priced between HK$6.8 million and up to HK$17 million (US$2.2 million). On a per square foot basis, this weekend’s sale averaged HK$15,679 after discounts, 1 per cent cheaper than Wheelock’s project in the same vicinity launched last August.
The shaky sentiment shows how Hong Kong’s property market is still struggling to find a footing, amid a combination of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and a global stock market rout that are pushing the city’s economy into its first recession in a decade. Hong Kong’s economy is projected to shrink 7.5 per cent in the second quarter, putting it on track for a 4.8 per cent decline this year, according to Standard Chartered Global Research.
The last new property launch in Hong Kong was Henderson Land Development’s The Richmond in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island, launched on January 21 just before the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, and before the coronavirus outbreak in central China took a turn for the worse. Buyers snapped up all of the 45 flats on offer in two sale sessions, showing a strong demand for smaller new project in the swanky neighbourhood. The flats ranged from 206 to 300 sq ft and were priced between HK$6.3 million and HK$9.7 million.
The market has gone into hibernation since, as developers and sales agents alike refrained from putting on sales launches amid the worsening outbreak, which kept many people at home away from crowded public places. Hundreds of real property agents quit, or converted into non-salaried salespeople to survive the long haul, as the drought in transactions dents their take-home pay. Hong Kong’s de facto central bank cut its base lending rate to a near record low on Monday, following the second emergency cut in as many weeks by the US Federal Reserve to bolster the American economy from a looming recession, as the global coronavirus pandemic showed no sign of slowing.
The city’s retail sales, and overall consumption are in the doldrums as job prospects appear dismal in an economy squeezed by more than a year of the US-China trade war, many months of anti-government protests and now, the coronavirus pandemic. Four people have died from Covid-19, with more than 250 people catching the virus as of Saturday afternoon.
A mortgage brokerage services company providing mortgage packages that cover up to 80 per cent of the overall payment for houses that are worth HK$8.3 million or less.
Wheelock’s sales haul this weekend, at 80 per cent, came exactly within the expectations of sales agents, who pointed out that there was still ample supply of apartments in the neighbourhood.
Homebuyers are mostly interested in smaller flats for their own use, as the low interest rate environment in Hong Kong has made housing more affordable, agents said.
(South China Morning Post)
旺角金钻璽呎价9785元「鞋王」李子彬沽售商厦
新冠肺炎肆虐，加上近期股票市场连番波动，拖累铺位市场频录蚀让个案，当中「楼上铺」为重灾区，由「鞋王」李子彬持有的旺角金钻璽两层单位以5200万成交，持货7年帐面劲蚀约4258万。
旺角金钻璽「楼上铺」录大幅蚀让个案，土地註册处资料显示，弥敦道703号金钻璽4楼及5楼，于上月21日以5200万易手，买家以旅港番禺会所登记，原业主为李子彬(LEETZEBUNMARCES)，与鞋履品牌LeSaunda老闆中英文名相同，于2013年以每层4729.46万购入，合共涉资9458.9万，故持货7年，帐面劲蚀约4258.9万，物业期间贬值约81%；据业内人士指出，上述两层单位面积约5314方呎计，平均呎价仅9785元。
持货七年贬值81%
代理指出，受新冠肺炎肆虐，加上近期股票市场连番波动，令铺市饱受压力，上址原业主于铺位市场高峰期购入物业，由于当时铺位造价「水涨船高」，带动「楼上铺」备受追捧，惟该类物业市场远逊于地铺，加上现时铺市阴霾密布，对是次蚀让不感意外，是次成交价亦仅属市价水平。
另外，民生区地铺亦录蚀让成交，盛滙商铺基金管理有限公司行政总裁李根兴表示，大角嘴富荣花园地铺，面积约581方呎，早前以2800万放售，受近期市况拖累，减价至1738万成交，减价幅度约37%，原业主于2011年以1778万购入，持货9年，帐面微蚀约40万。据悉，该铺现时由政党租用，租金回报约3.4厘。
市场消息指出，翠华餐厅设于中环威灵顿街17至19号铺，将于短期内结业，据悉，该铺租约至本年10月份，租金为130万，以铺位面积8161方呎计，平均呎租约159元。
富临全幢逾二亿获洽
葵涌蓝田街29号富临中心全幢，获準买家积极洽购，出价逾2亿元，物业包括地下至7楼，现有总楼面约36131方呎，平均呎价8026元，项目佔地约5000方呎，按地积比约9.5倍，可重建楼面约47500方呎，项目已获批可作商店及服务用途。该物业由富临集团持有，于2018年4月以1.75亿购入。
(星岛日报)
港岛甲厦空置率 2月普遍上升
根据代理的数据显示，2月份金鐘、铜锣湾、中环、上环及湾仔五区甲级商厦整体空置率升幅约0.02至0.8个百分点不等，当中金鐘区升幅最大，更一举升破6%水平，由1月份的5.32%上升至最新约6.12%。而上环区甲厦虽然空置率对比金鐘较低，2月录得约4.88%，但单月升幅紧追其后，有约0.76百分点。
金鐘力宝中心 空置率逾8%
至于港岛核心区包括中上环、金鐘及湾仔共14座指标商厦，当中9幢甲厦空置率皆录得升幅，其中金鐘港铁站上盖的力宝中心一及二座全面超越8%，2月最新空置率约8.2%及8.54%，较1月份的约6.69%及6.18%，分别上升1.51及2.36个百分点。
另一甲厦统一中心空置率升至双位数，2月空置率录得约10.45%，按月上升约1.96百分点；而早前录得新低呎租成交的美国银行中心空置率为统计指标商厦中最高，2月该厦空置率约18.61%，单月升幅同约1.96百分点。
该代理认为，去年下半年受社会事件影响，个别企业已放缓承租写字楼步伐，而近期新冠肺炎疫情来势汹汹，整体市场观望气氛持续浓厚。同时，由于港岛指标甲级商厦的租金对比二綫区商厦为高，加上近年不少地区全新优质商厦落成，令个别企业陆续把办公室迁出中区核心地段的商厦以节省租金成本，令港岛区指标商厦空置率逐步上升。该行指，面对空置率持续递增，个别业主心态回软，议价空间进一步扩大，因而令市场陆续录得甲厦租金下调甚至创新低个案，部分準租客观望意慾增，加上现时香港营商环境面临重大挑战，「去中环化」概念渐见衍生，长远而言对港岛区甲厦租务倍添压力，料空置率会继续上升。
(经济日报)
观塘 全层作价1.85亿COACH每呎1.1万元沽货
近期市况虽淡静，有零售商亦沽售自用甲厦，观塘丝宝国际大厦中层全层以逾1.85亿易手，平均每呎逾1.1万，重返七年前水平，原业主为国际品牌手袋零售商COACH，将售后租回单位，新买家料回报逾3.1厘。
市场消息透露，观塘伟业街108号丝宝国际大厦15楼全层，另连2个车位，以1.852亿易手，以全层建筑面积约16841方呎计算，平均呎价1.1万，同座高一层面积一样的全层单位，于2013年以约1.852亿售出，呎价亦是1.1万，今番COACH沽货，售价重回7年前水平。
据悉，COACH售后租回3年，呎租29元，新买家料回报逾3.1厘。
重返七年前水平
该厦于2018年高峰期，平均呎价普遍高逾1.5万，今番较高峰期回落26%。COACH于2011年2月向新地购入该全层，作价1.015亿，持货9年，帐面获利8050万，物业升值79%。
新地早于2010年拆售丝宝国际大厦，当时呎价近6000元，同年4月，新地以10.68亿沽出该厦18至23楼、25至28楼，共10层楼面，连同多个车位及大厦广告位，呎价约6200元(包车位及广告)，买家为内地企业丝宝集团，故该厦亦以该公司名称命名。及后数年，随着经济好转，自由行盛行，甲厦价格急升，直至2013年初，该厦呎价普遍逾1万。
此外，甲厦再录承租，中环美国银行中心3404室，面积约2435方呎，以每方呎约65元租出。上环信德中心西翼1006A室，面积约1000方呎，以每方呎55元租出。
美国银行中心每呎65元租出
代理表示，天后电气道68至70号的银座式商厦金轮新天地，今年初入伙，其中，3楼全层获西餐厅以每方呎约40元承租，作扩张业务，月租逾11万。3楼为特色楼层，面积约2778方呎，附有约350方呎露台，代理续说，该租客在港岛及九龙东有分店，是次选址金轮新天地开设第三间分店。
代理续称，金轮新天地业主将保留最高两层27及28楼自用，9至12楼意向呎租28元，附2个月免租期，每层面积约2778方呎，适合零售、医疗或美容业。地下、1至2楼可作食肆，地铺面积约3200方呎，叫租每方呎约105元，1楼面积约3238方呎，意向呎租约68元，2楼面积约3546方呎，呎租约47元。
(星岛日报)
甲厦租金有所调整，消息指，内地海航集团租用尖沙咀K11 ATELIER商厦单位，呎租约85元，较高峰期跌约2成。
较高峰期回落约2成
市场消息指，尖沙咀K11 ATELIER录租务成交，涉及物业中层，面积约9,557平方呎，以每平方呎约85元租出。据悉，新租客为内地海航集团。
按呎租水平计，较高峰期回落。物业于两年前入伙，租务理想，租金更成为尖沙咀指标。如去年中，一家本地公司租用该厦中高层05室，面积约3,560平方呎，呎租约110元，为该厦呎租纪录，亦是九龙区指标。另一宗租务为大厦7楼全层，面积约2.7万平方呎，去年以每平方呎约110元租出。新租客为外资共享工作空间品牌CEO SUITE。由于市况转弱，机构扩充意慾低，加上个别缩减业务，令整体甲厦租务淡静，空置率上升，故整体租金下跌。按是次成交租金计，较高峰期跌约2成。
另消息指，中环美国银行中心高层04室，面积约2,435平方呎，以每呎约65元租出；另上环信德中心西翼中低层06A室，面积约1,000平方呎，成交呎租约55元。
(经济日报)
黄竹坑8商业项目 供逾200万呎楼面
随着港铁南港岛綫通车后，加快黄竹坑转型作商贸区的发展步伐，区内有8个发展项目陆续上马，预计可提供逾200万平方呎商业楼面供应，其中最大规模为黄竹坑站3期大型商场。
黄竹坑道一带以往为工业发展为主，随着不少工业活动北移至内地，加上港铁南港岛綫通车后，从黄竹坑前往中环、金鐘等核心商业区的距离时间收窄，使该区商业发展的潜力日增，不少工厦及巴士厂用地将逐渐转型作其他用途，包括商厦、商场等。
黄竹坑站3期商场 料走中高档路綫
其中，位于南朗山道、警校道及香叶道交界的黄竹坑站上盖项目，预计可兴建14幢住宅大厦，提供约4,700伙，其中第3期商住项目将包括一个楼面面积约50.6万平方呎的大型商场，将由港铁 (00066) 经营，预期最快2024年落成。由于邻近大多数为豪宅项目，市场估计商场未来定位会以中高档次为主。
帝国集团3项目 涉资逾60亿
与此同时，近年有多家发展商积极进驻区内发展。当中以帝国集团以独资及合资在区内持有3个商业项目发展，料可提供约72万平方呎商用楼面，涉资共约60亿元。
包括就天丰工业大厦进行收购，已统一全数业权，预计项目可重建楼面约27.4万平方呎，并亦以15.6亿元全幢购入仁孚香港仔车厂项目，可建楼面约16.4万平方呎。
同时，帝国集团在2016年伙拍信置 (00083) 以25.3亿元投得业勤街商贸地皮，楼面面积涉及约28.5万平方呎，计划发展兴建成27层甲级商厦，另按地契要求预留部分楼面作艺术文化中心等设施。
另一间中小型发展商宏基资本 (02288)前年亦以14.8亿元购入黄竹坑道23号的标达中心。该工厦已经获屋宇署批出拆楼纸，将会重建成商厦，提供约10.7万平方呎楼面。
至于由太古地产 (01972) 与中华汽车 (00026)合作发展的黄竹坑道8至10号前中巴车厂地皮，已发展成28层高新商厦，名为South Island
Place，楼面约38.3万平方呎，并获得国际知名机构洽租其中7至8层楼面，涉及面积逾15万平方呎。
(经济日报)
邓成波购红磡简悦酒店理想集团3.5亿沽货
在反修例运动及肺炎夹击下，酒店生意淡薄，投资老手趁势吸纳，红磡宝其利街简悦酒店全幢，以3.5亿易手，平均呎价1.35万，买家为「铺王波叔」邓成波。
上址为宝其利街179至181号简悦酒店全幢，佔地约1612方呎，现址楼高16层，拥有房间54个，总楼面约25792方呎，以成交价3.5亿计算，平均呎价约13570元，据了解，该项目虽然是酒店，惟租客以月租为主，物业连租约易手，新买家邓成波以买公司形式购入物业，得以节省物业价格8.5%的釐印费，涉资大约2975万。
平均呎价1.35万
有代理指出，上址与港铁何文田站距离，步程仅3分鐘，与红磡站步程约5分鐘，由于极具地利，租客不乏学生及优皮一族，新买家购入后，将物业重新包装及提高回报。
原业主为理想集团，于2012年8月以星诚有限公司名义，分别购入上述的179及181号，作价各4960万，合共9920万，持货逾7年，帐面获利逾2.508亿，物业升值逾2.52倍。
传波叔9280万沽华景园
近期在肺炎疫情下，酒店业受重创，邓成波及儿子邓耀昇却频出手，近期亦承租湾仔摩理臣山道39号晋逸时代精品酒店，月租125万，租约长达6年，新租金较旧租金大减50%，物业楼高26层，总楼面约55238方呎，共有98间客房，旧租客以250.8万承租，租期至明年，早前提早结业。
由邓成波持有的浅水湾华景园1座高层A室，面积2482方呎，市传以9280万连3个车位沽出，呎价约37389元。邓成波于13年用公司股权转让方式购入，当时作价约8780万购，帐面赚500万离场。本报昨日致电邓成波查询，惟截稿前未联络得上。
近期工商铺成交处低水平。有代理统计指出，3月截至16日，上半月市场暂录约91宗工商铺买卖，较上周同期微跌约15%；金额约29.58亿，比上月升逾1倍，铺位买卖暂录约23宗成交，涉资约10.62亿元，两者皆超越2月同期数字。
(星岛日报)
中环香港钻石会大厦全层合中小用户
中环核心商业区内单位供应少，全层单位更为少有。都爹利街香港钻石会大厦单位全层面积约2,000多呎，细面积全层单位方便中小型企业作总部使用。
香港钻石会大厦位于都爹利街，最著名的为与雪厂街连接之处有一条花岗石楼梯与4枝煤气灯，煤气灯为全香港仅餘的最后一枝煤气灯，被列为香港法定古迹。
项目于1981年落成，至今楼龄39年，楼高约25层。电梯大堂以白色设计，典雅大方，设有2部载客升降机，另外设1部载货升降机，有效分散人流。
交通方面，大厦地下设有停车场，有5个私家车位，提供电动车充电设备，方便自驾人士出入。而项目步行至中环地铁站，只为一街之隔，约5分鐘可到达。项目亦比邻置地广场等区内地标，日常消閒购物选择齐全，亦可经由置地广场行人天桥到达香港站，及国际金融中心一带，相当方便。
每层2750呎可分间两单位
大厦每层面积约2,750平方呎，属中型单位，大多业户选择以全层作总部使用，亦可选择将全层单位分间成2个约千餘呎单位使用。
楼底高度约2.9米，故空间感十足，加上单位内设有大窗户，令室内更为开扬光猛。项目大部分单位外望上亚厘毕道及下亚厘毕道，可享半山一带景致，景观开扬。每层均设有男女洗手间，如非全层使用，需与其他业户共同使用洗手间。
香港钻石会大厦业户种类多元化，较为著名的业户有香港珠石玉器金银首饰业商会、香港特约秘书公会等，另外亦有贸易公司及律师行等。
对上成交呎价3.5万
项目买卖交投疏落，对上一宗成交要追溯至2018年，成交单位属15楼全层，单位面积2,750平方呎，成交价9,625万元，呎价3.5万元。参考近日区内成交，德和中心一个高层全层单位，面积1,168平方呎，以1,580万元售出，呎价13,527元，呎价反映项目位置优势。
(经济日报)
资策5.5亿购浅水湾屋地钟楚义：买入作重建用途
豪宅市场再录大额成交，消息指，由廖创兴家族持有的浅水湾道92号屋地，目前以约5.5亿沽出，呎价约6.1万，新买家为资本策略，并以买卖公司形式购入，并将斥资约2亿作重建。
市场消息指，浅水湾道92号屋地，由资本策略以约5.5亿购入，并以买卖公司形式易手，故此新买家不用支付釐印费。
每呎楼面6.1万
资本策略主席钟楚义接受本报查询时则回应，现阶段尚未决定该物业的发展定案，但将斥资约2亿作重建。
斥资两亿重建
该屋地的地盘面积约1万方呎，地积比率约0.9倍，以可建楼面约9000方呎计，呎价约6.1万。据土地註册处资料显示，廖创兴家族早于81年以800万易手，并以RESOUNDING SUCCESS LIMITED名义持有，现时董事为廖金辉及廖陈嘉绵，目前转手，帐面获利5.42亿。
据悉，物业前方没有建筑物遮挡，相信项目重建后可享开扬浅水湾海景。
原由廖创兴家族持有
资本策略钟情于发展豪宅，旗下豪宅物业包括渣甸山白建时道皇第，山顶白加道45号，及山顶道8至12号。其中，白加道项目为1幢实用面积逾4000方呎洋房，预计今年以现楼形式推出，前身为一座建于上世纪30年代的大宅，2010年获评为二级历史建筑，资策于2011年斥约2亿元向黄克竞家族购入，于2014年获批准重建，且需保留向街外墙原貌。
帐面赚5.42亿
另外，资本策略不时购入港岛豪宅，于2017年以「买壳」形式购入渣甸山轩德蓀道一幅相连屋地，市场作价约10亿，并从而扩大其在渣甸山的版图。据悉，位于渣甸山轩德蓀道11、12号的相连屋地，两地盘分别佔地10149及10496方呎，以地积比率0.6倍计算，可重建楼面约6089方呎及6298方呎。
(星岛日报)
甲厦租金重返四年前水平
新冠肺炎演变成为环球疫症，市场忧虑经济衰退，写字楼市场受沉重打击。近期，核心区甲厦租金普遍重返四年前水平。
企业缩减规模
市场负面因素充斥，国际油价急跌，市场担心加剧全球经济大衰退，与股市及经济表现关连甚大商厦市场，前景绝不乐观。现时，企业有见市场面对逼在眉睫的经济危机，扩张变得更谨慎，部分中资外资，更纷将办公室规模减少，对于今年写字楼租金及售价构成严重压力。
近期，金鐘、中环以至上环区内指标甲厦，租金纷创下近年新低，金鐘力宝中心呎租43.8元，区内海富中心每方呎40元，上环信德中心呎租亦是42元，可是呎租40元，是不少甲厦用家在现阶段，仍能负担得起的水平。
远东金融中心防守力较强
比较特别的是，过往呎租高于上述商厦20%至30%的美国银行中心，新近亦录呎租42元及47元，原因是除了大市因素，亦由于该厦附近有两个地盘动工，包括和记大厦及美利道「地王」，都处施工阶段，噪音令租客却步。代理指，长綫来说，该厦质素没有变，地盘动工影响属短暂。至于远东金融中心租金防守力较强，近期一个望街单位，以每方呎约60元租出。
(星岛日报)
Repulse Bay home goes on market for $500m
A site in Repulse Bay owned by the Liu Chong-hing family could sell for HK$500 million or HK$66,7000 per square feet to CSI Properties (0497).
The site on 92 Repulse Bay Road has been on the market since last July, with the family purchasing the 10,000-sq-ft site which has a three-level house for HK$8 million in 1981.
Meanwhile, the 25,000 sq-ft ultra-prime house at 89 Repulse Bay Road, owned by Leung Leung-shing, the richest man in Hubei Province, previously topped the most expensive houses in Hong Kong for five years but saw its rental value has fallen 3.6 percent year-on-year, according to data from the Rating and Valuation Department.
The estimated annual rental value of his house in Repulse Bay Road reached HK$13.01 million, with monthly rent at HK$1.08 million.
In another news, Wheelock Properties released the fifth price list of Ocean Marini in Tseung Kwan O, offering 51 units with the average selling price of HK$16,383, 12 percent more expansive than the first batch.
The project offers two to four-bedroom flats, ranging from 539 to 1,062 sq ft, with 98 percent being sea-view flats. There are two featured flats, including a platform and a rooftop. The discounted selling price is between HK$8.44 million to HK$17.76 million. The developers expected the price list could cash out HK$660 million.
Over the weekend, the developer sold 188 out of 208 flats in the previous batch for the Ocean Marini.
(The Standard)
Primary sales the bright spot in property market
Homebuyers piled into the primary
market over the past weekend despite the coronavirus outbreak, with Wheelock
Properties selling 188 out of 208 flats on offer at Ocean Marini in Tseung Kwan
O on Saturday, but secondary transactions at ten blue-chip estates slumped
almost 50 percent week-on-week.
Wheelock Properties released 51
flats in the fourth price list of Ocean Marini at Lohas Park, which are offered
at an average HK$15,988 per sq ft, 8.8 percent higher than that of the first
batch.
The 51 flats, which range in size
between 472 sq ft and 799 sq ft, are offered at between HK$7.46 million and
HK$13.21 million, or between HK$15,076 per sq ft and HK$17,742 per sq ft, after
discounts.
Wheelock pocketed around HK$1.8
billion after selling a total of 211 units at Ocean Marini, Grand Marini and
Marini at Lohas Park on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Wing Tai Properties (0369)
sold a 1,094-sq-ft penthouse at Oma Oma in Tuen Mun for HK$18.9 million, or
HK$17,276 per sq ft.
In the rentals market, a 420-sq-ft
flat at The Arch at Kowloon Station was rented for HK$19,000 per month, or
HK$45.2 per sq ft, after HK$9,000 was cut from the original asking rent. And a
two-bedroom flat at Metro Harbour View in Tai Kok Tsui was leased for
HK$11,500, or HK$35 per sq ft, after HK$3,000 was cut from the initial asking
rent.
In the secondary market, an real
estate agency firm recorded only eight secondary transactions at ten major
housing estates over the past weekend, down by 46.7 percent from a week before.
Laguna City in Kwun Tong, Whampoa
Garden in Hung Hom, City One Shatin in Sha Tin, Taikoo Shing and Kornhill in
Quarry Bay saw no secondary transactions.
In Tseung Kwan O, a 538-sq-ft flat
at The Wings changed hands for HK$9.6 million, after HK$2.4 million, or 20
percent, was slashed from the initial asking price.
In Shau Kei Wan, a 429-sq-ft flat at
Lime Gala fetched HK$9.5 million, or HK$22,619 per sq ft, after HK$400,000 was
cut from the first asking price.
In the commercial property market,
the vacancy rate of Grade A offices in Admiralty rose to 6.12 percent in
February, up by 0.8 percentage points month-on-month and hitting a six-year
high, as the Covid-19 outbreak continued to weigh on the office market,
according to a real estate agent.
(The Standard)
Hong Kong homebuyers snap up first new property project in
two months, lured by discounts and falling interest rates
Hong Kong’s homebuyers snapped up
the city’s first fresh property launch in two months, attracted by discounts
and expectations of lower interest rates, even as the ongoing coronavirus
outbreak continued to weigh on business and retail sentiments.
Wheelock Properties said it sold 187
of the 208 flats, or 90 per cent of the units on offer at the Ocean Marini
project in Tseung Kwan O as of 9pm on Saturday, for a sales haul of HK$1.59
billion (US$204 million).
The flats were mostly two and
three-bedroom units ranging from 459 square feet to 1,062 sq ft (98 square
metres), priced between HK$6.6 million (US$848,727) and HK$17.7 million. On
average, the flats were sold at HK$15,698 per sq ft after discount, 1 per cent
cheaper than Wheelock’s project in the same neighbourhood launched last August.
The developer separately sold 11 apartments at the Marini project and 13 units
at the Grand Marini.
Customers were mostly buying the
flats for their own use, as opposed to buying them as investments, and many of
them were attracted by the trend of falling interest rates, which they expect
to translate into lower mortgage payments, agents said.
“Most clients are buying the flats
for themselves to live in, because it’s better to pay the mortgage of your own
flat than the rent during a low-interest rate environment,” agent said.
The brisk sale by Wheelock, one of
Hong Kong’s largest developers, is a much-needed shot in the arm for a city
deep in its first technical recession in more than a decade. Retail sales, and
overall consumption are in the doldrums as job prospects appear dismal in an
economy squeezed by more than a year of the US-China trade war, many months of
anti-government protests and now, the coronavirus pandemic
. Four people have died from
Covid-19, with about 140 people catching the virus as of Saturday evening.
“Given the heated response to Ocean
Marini, the company is considering putting more apartments onto the market
soon,” Wheelock said in a statement.
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank
cut its base lending rate by half a percentage point on March 4, following an
emergency cut by the US Federal Reserve to ward off the economic impact from
the coronavirus outbreak. The US Fed is widely expected to cut its key rate by
at least another 50 basis points on March 18, which would compel the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority (HKMA) to follow in lockstep.
A mortgage brokerage services
company providing mortgage packages that cover up to 80 per cent of the overall
payment for houses that are worth HK$8.3 million or less.
Before Ocean Marini, the last new
project put on the market was apartments at The Richmond in the Mid-Levels on
Hong Kong Island. The project was launched by Henderson Land Development on
January 21.
Buyers snapped up all of the 45
flats on offer in two sale sessions, showing a strong demand for smaller new
project in the swanky neighbourhood. The flats ranged from 206 to 300 sq ft and
were priced between HK$6.3 million and HK$9.7 million.
(South China Morning
Post)
环球疫症恐慌 甲厦租售价势跌
疫症持续更蔓延至全球，商厦租务需求降，租金下跌，个别业主亦看淡后市，令售价亦明显调整，相信短期内持续回调。
投资气氛持续淡静，甲厦买卖跌至极少。据代理统计，1月份十大商厦仅录1宗买卖，成交可谓冰封。涉及买卖属业主降价，中环美国银行中心2812室，面积约1,354平方呎，以3900万易手，呎价约28,800元，单位以交吉交易。原业主于1999年购入，持货逾20年，有见最近疫情令市况增添很多不明朗因素，最终决定沽出。
中环美国银行中心 租售均低价成交
按呎价计，属该厦近4年新低，亦属4年首度呎价跌穿3万元。2016年，物业2801至03室，面积约4,132平方呎，以约1.16亿元成交，呎价约28,150元。该厦对上一宗买卖成交为去年12月，物业中层单位，面积约1,137平方呎，以约4,880万元易手，呎价约42,920元。
买卖淡静，租务方面则连录多宗低价成交，如中环美国银行中心高层05室，面积约2,637平方呎，以每月约11万元租出，呎租约42元。单位原本呎租约63元，租客去年9月迁出后交吉，业主原以每呎70元放租，其后减至56元，直至近日以每呎42元租出，与对上租约比较，租金跌33%。若按成交呎租计算，为该厦近10年新低。另同厦高层07至08室，面积约3,857平方呎，以每月约18.1万元租出，呎租约47元。业主原叫价每呎近80元，如今减价约4成租出。
金鐘指标商厦业主 降租两成
同区海富中心租金向下，物业中层1室，面积约6,135平方呎，以每月约24.5万元租出，呎租约40元，单位享海景。呎租为该厦4年新低，对上一宗呎租40餘元成交，为2016年9月。
代理分析，在环球经济不明下，投资气氛受打击，普遍业主持货力强，没有大幅降价，仅有个别业主看淡后市，愿减价2至3成，惟个案不多，故成交量低。该代理认为，在疫情持续下，租务气氛淡静，业主减租幅度相对明显，如金鐘多幢指标商厦，呎租由60至70元，降至40至50元，幅度约两成，代理预计短期内甲厦租售价仍回调。
(经济日报)
尖区乙级商厦呎租22元疫情股灾拖累租金重回五年前
新冠肺炎肆虐，令市场观望气氛浓厚，加上近日股票市场连番波动，令商厦租金拾级而下，消息指，由资深投资者持有的尖沙嘴国际商业信贷银行大厦中层单位，面积5047方呎，以每呎22租出，较旧租金急挫逾5成；业内人士指出，上述租金较市价低约两成，并重回五年前水平。
核心区商厦租金持续下滑。市场消息指出，尖沙嘴国际商业信贷银行大厦中层单位，面积5047方呎，以每方呎22元租出；据悉，上址早前由火锅中菜馆以每呎45元承租，故新租金较旧租金下跌约51%。
国际商业信贷银行大厦中层
据土地註册处资料显示，上址业主于2002年以2260万购入，以公司名义持有，註册董事为一名资深投资者。
较旧租急挫逾五成
据区内代理指出，受社会运动于去年年中爆发，加上近期新冠肺炎及股票市场连番波动影响，令核心区商厦租金饱受压力，上述租金较市价低约两成，并重回五年前水平。据代理资料显示，上述商厦对上一宗承租于去年9月，该厦中层单位面积约5047方呎，17.9万租出，平均呎租约36元。
中环中心呎租85元
虽然市场观望气氛浓厚，惟甲厦仍频录承租个案，消息指，中环中心中层08室，面积约2121方呎，以18.2万续租，平均呎租约85元；另外，金鐘甲厦力宝中心1座高层03室，面积约2263方呎，以113.57万租出，平均呎租约60元。市场消息指出，尖沙嘴新港中心1座高层2A室，面积约588方呎，以约3.3万续租，平均呎租约56.12元。
另一方面，工厦物业仍备受追捧，再录大手成交。据土地註册处资料显示，荃湾富源工业大厦地下全层，于本月3日5500万成交，买家以公司名义登记，为SINO KNIGHT INTERNATIONAL LIMITED，以面积6000方呎计，平均呎价约9167元。
(星岛日报)
力宝中心每呎43.8元租出重回四年前水平
受多项不明朗因素困扰，拖累商厦租金持续下滑，消息指，金鐘力宝中心中层单位以每呎租金43.8元租出，低市价约一成，租金重回4年前水平。
市场消息指出，金鐘力宝中心一座中层03至04室，面积约4700方呎，以每呎43.8元租出，涉资约20万5860元；据区内代理指出，上述租金较市价低约一成，并重回4年前水平。
低市价约10%
据代理资料显示，该厦对上一宗承租个案于上月17日，为1座高层单位，面积2263方呎，以每呎65元租出，涉资约14万7095元，与最近承租租金相比，折让逾三成；若贴近是次租金水平，需追溯至2016年6月，当时该厦1座低层单位，面积约3125方呎，以14万3750元租出，平均呎租约46元。
消息指，北角友邦广场高层05至08室，面积约5883方呎，以每呎58元租出，涉资约34万1214元；另外，尖沙咀中心高层A室，面积1906方呎，以每呎45元租出，涉资约85770元；同区商厦星光行亦录承租个案，市场消息指出，该厦中层23B室，面积约200方呎，以每呎32.5元租出，涉资约6500元。
(星岛日报)
尖沙嘴余仁生中心放售全层意向呎价1.7万
股市连番波动，观望气氛进一步蔓延，部分业主放售旗下商厦物业，尖沙嘴余仁生中心全层单位，面积约1978方呎，以意向价3300万放售，平均呎价约1.7万，买家料享回报约3厘水平。
代理表示，上述放售物业为尖沙嘴漆咸道南11至15号余仁生中心低层全层，面积约1978方呎，意向售价约3300万，折合呎价约1.7万。该代理续指出，虽然市场近期受多项利淡素夹击，惟部分商厦业主持货力强，议幅未见扩阔，该放售单位方正实用，享开扬景致，料回报约3厘，属不俗水平。
料回报三厘
该代理续指出，该商厦位处区内核心地段，邻近港铁尖东站，周边亦有多条巴士綫往来各区。大厦附近商厦林立，可成协同效应，随着高铁西九龙站及西九文化区等大型建设相继落成，料区内物业将备受追捧，预料是次放盘将短期内获投资者吸纳。
据代理资料显示，该商厦对上一宗成交追溯至2016年10月，该商高层全层，面积约996方呎，以1728万成交，平均呎价约17349元。
(星岛日报)
加路连山道商地挑战百亿地王
下年度卖地表新增多幅商业用地，其中铜锣湾加路连山道商业地可建楼面高达107.6万平方呎，属区内难得大型商业地供应，有测量师认为作写字楼及商场综合发展较佳，估值162亿至269亿元，挑战成「百亿地王」。
规划署早于10多年提出将铜锣湾前机电工程署旧总部、邮政体育会、电讯盈科康乐会及前民安队大楼等组成的大型用地改划，拟分为南、北两幅地皮发展。其中北面地盘便是今次的加路连山道地皮，佔地15.9万平方呎，预计可提供约107.6万平方呎商业楼面。
可建两幢商厦提供107万呎
据分区大纲图显示，该地建筑物高限将获放宽至主水平基準以上135米，与附近商厦高度相同，计划可兴建两幢28至35层高商厦，其中一幢可远望维多利亚公园一带景致。
该地规定要将部分楼面留作兴建一所地区康復中心及幼儿中心，以及不少于125个停车位的公眾停车场，以及小巴等公共交通上落客设施，并须提供最少近6.5万平方呎公眾休憩用地。同时要预留地下接驳口，以连接未来的地下行人通道，通往铜锣湾港铁站等。综合市场估值162亿至269亿元，每呎楼面地价约1.5万至2.5万元。
南面地盘建新法院综合大楼
至于南面地盘，政府将会兴建两幢新法院综合大楼，重置湾仔区域法院，也会容纳家事法庭及土地审裁处等，楼面约75.3万平方呎，整个发展预计2026年完成。由于地皮仍处改划阶段，估计最快下半年度或明年才推出。
有测量师认为，港岛区大型商地供应少，今次地皮近民居，也较近利园山道，预计适合作综合性发展，视乎地契要求，作写字楼及商场组合发展较适合。区内也有多个大地主，相信吸引财团争夺。
铜锣湾近年区内全幢商厦买卖不多，例如邻近的开平道Cubus在2017年中以约20亿元易手，呎价约2.9万元。而糖街27至31号两厦同年亦以16.8亿元获华润集团买入，呎价约2.7万元，计划重建。
属铜锣湾大地主之一的希慎(00014)，在地皮周边有多个商业项目，包括希慎广场及礼顿中心等，当中利园3期平均呎租达60至75元。
(经济日报)
Investments in Hong Kong’s offices, shops and homes slowed to a standstill as Covid-19 outbreak adds to market’s woes
Investments in Hong Kong’s real estate are almost at a standstill, as the global coronavirus outbreak exacerbated the slumping sentiment from half a year of anti-government protests and the ongoing US-China trade war.
February’s transactions declined 13 per cent from last year to 3,572 deals, the lowest monthly tally in four years, comprising both newly launched property and lived-in homes, according to estimates by a real estate agency firm. On the high end of the property market involving offices, shops or homes exceeding HK$100 million (US$12.87 million) in value, only 17 deals changed hands last month, the lowest since 2009 while the average deal size shrank 44.1 per cent to a decade low of HK$235.3 million.
“There is a lack of incentives for transactions,” an agent. “Landlords want to wait until the coronavirus situation eases before selling their property and have stronger holding power due to low interest rates.”
The data underscores the market’s gloomy outlook, as the bull run in the world’s most expensive real estate market stumbled after many months of anti-government protests sapped appetite. Now, as the coronavirus outbreak shows no signs of letting up, few buyers dare to venture into sales rooms or commit to big-ticket purchases.
The last weekend offered the latest sign of gloom: China Evergrande sold 49 of the 141 flats on offer at its Emerald Bay project in Tuen Mun, even after the developer increased its average discount to 14 per cent. The sales slump was the city’s first major launch in two months, further weighing down on home prices, which have fallen 7.6 per cent this month from a record last May.
“We are just starting to enter a down cycle, unlike the severe acute respiratory syndrome [outbreak in 2003] when we were coming to the end of the down cycle since 1997,” another agent said, adding that the agent expects prices in the mass-market and mid-market segments to drop by 10 to 15 per cent this year. That could generate interest in buyers, the agent said.
Hong Kong’s home prices slipped 6.5 per cent in February from its August 2018 peak before the city was engulfed by anti-government protests, according to a property price index compiled by a real estate agency. In comparison, home prices plunged by as much as 70 per cent during the 2003 Sars outbreak from their 1997 peak.
An agent said that Hong Kong’s current shortage of land and homes, combined with the backdrop of declining interest rate and easier mortgage rules, could provide a strong support for home prices.
Declining home prices may find a floor if the current Covid-19 outbreak stabilises by June or July, according to a forecast by an international agency firm, adding that first-half transactions may drop 10 per cent to 22,720 from the second half of 2019.
In the luxury segment, local and mainland Chinese high net worth individuals have “virtually stopped all dealings” and opted to diversify in overseas markets, the agent said in February. These potential buyers are likely to turn cautious on investment as business prospects and economic conditions weaken in Hong Kong, which would pull luxury prices down by another 5 to 10 per cent for the year.
“Investors want to hunt for bargains before buying, because factors such as the trade war, last year’s social unrest and the current coronavirus situation have pushed home prices down,” the agent said.
(South China Morning Post)
More Ocean Marini flats go on the market
Wheelock and Company (0020) released 60 flats in the third price list for Ocean Marini at Lohas Park yesterday, offered at an average of HK$15,698 per square foot after discounts. The developer had received 1,500 checks as of Monday for the 202 flats released in the first two price lists, 6.4 times oversubscribed.
The project will provide a total of 503 units, with most of them being two-bedroom and three-bedroom flats.
Meanwhile, CK Asset (1113) will raise the prices of 30 flats at Seaside Sonata in Sham Shui Po by 2 percent, and the first five buyers who purchased designated residential properties will be entitled to receive one gold ingot in the value of HK$98,000 for each residential property purchased.
In the commercial property market, a street shop with a gross floor area of 800 square feet on Yiu Wa Street in Causeway Bay changed hands for HK$34 million, or HK$42,500 per sq ft, after HK$86 million was slashed from the initial asking price.
In the secondary market, a 522-sq-ft flat at Sky Tower in To Kwa Wan fetched HK$8.7 million, or HK$16,667 per sq ft, after HK$2.1 million was cut from the original asking price.
A 705-sq-ft flat at Lohas Park Phase 1 The Capitol sold for HK$8.9 million or HK$12,624 per sq ft, after HK$800,000 was reduced from the first asking price.
In Pak Sha Wan, a 645-sq-ft flat at Heng Fa Chuen changed hands for HK$9.9 million, or HK$15,349 per sq ft, after HK$2.38 million was rubbed off from the initial asking price.
In other news, overall stamp duty raised from home purchases in February dropped 4 percent month-on-month to HK$785.8 million, hitting a six-year low, according to data from the Inland Revenue Department.
The amount of buyer's stamp duty collected surged 18 percent month-on-month to HK$235 million and the amount of double stamp duty applied to residential property transactions plummeted by 10 percent month-on-month to HK$334.4 million.
In the rental market, the average rent of private residential properties dropped 2 percent month-on-month to HK$34.7 per sq ft in February due to the spread of the coronavirus.
(The Standard)
甲厦租售价连跌八个月上环金鐘成重灾区
新冠肺炎逐渐演变成为环球大疫症，市场忧虑环球经济衰退，写字楼市场受沉重打击。有代理报告指出，上月指标甲厦售价及租金按月分别再挫1.2%及1.8%，双双连跌第8个月，并以上环及金鐘表现最差，纷重返三年前水平。
租售价重返三年前水平
报告指出，上月金鐘甲厦售价按月挫5.3%，是各区表现最差，最新平均呎价仅30869元，较2018年底的38803元高位跌约20%，重返2017年中，即中环美利道地王卖地时水平。
上环甲厦呎价按月无变化，最新呎价仅27381元，也重回2017年中水平，意味着过去2至3年间购入物业的业主，有机会帐面遭遇损失。
金鐘甲厦呎租按月跌2.6%
上月金鐘及上环甲厦呎租分别按月挫2.6%及1.4%，其中美国银行中心一个单位，以每呎约42元租出，创下该厦十年新低纪录，同时较该单位旧租金跌33%。
代理指出，新近国际油价突然急跌，市场担心加剧全球经济大衰退，与股市及经济表现关连甚大的商厦市场，前景绝不乐观。
代理续指，除了环球经济不明朗之外，近期不少中资外资企业，希望将办公室的规模减少，而新近一连串逼在眉睫的经济危机，将令到企业变得更谨慎，预计这将会对今年的写字楼租金及售价构成严重压力。
代理表示，观塘鸿图道44至46号世纪工商中心高层单位，建筑面积约5833方呎，业主意向价约3200万，呎价约5400元。世纪工商中心于1983年入伙，去年买卖及租务约10数宗，代理指，各单位间隔方正实用，设洗手间，配上全新共享工作室装修，买家可即买即用，同时可放租，回报达4.5厘。
(星岛日报)
中环海滨商地王料建新派商厦
属于新卖地表内最瞩目的中环新海滨3号商业地王，可建楼面逾180万平方呎。零售前景不明朗，测量师估计，发展商逾6成楼面作写字楼发展，料兴建高度比较矮的新派商厦。
该幅地皮位于怡和大厦对出，比邻国际金融中心2期 (IFC2)，旁边是旅游景点香港摩天轮，佔地近52万平方呎，按照规划大纲图，总可建楼面约184万平方呎，当中约22.8万平方呎须作为政府设施，包括重置现时的邮政总局，餘下约160万平方呎楼面则作为商业发展。
该用地将会成为中环核心区最后一幅超大型商业地，亦将会成为未来的中环海滨地标。有别于现时国际金融中心2期属于摩天大厦，新海滨地皮料兴建一排低矮的商厦。
当中地皮东面部分建筑高限为16米(主水平基準以上，下同)，相信比较适合兴建数层高的商场，而东面部分高度限制则为50米，预计可以兴建8至10层高比较低矮的商厦。
有代理指出，由于规划上想保留天际綫，所以不会兴建太高的商厦，这种新派商厦近年在国际亦流行，包括伦敦的金丝雀码头，亦颇受市场欢迎。
至于商业楼面的分配，代理估计，发展商将保留6成至7成楼面作为写字楼，餘下就作为商场，而视乎中标财团的情况，估计项目落成后写字楼呎租达140至170元水平。
罕有採「双信封制」招标
政府罕有就地皮採用「双信封制」招标，亦即是发展商除了要提交地价竞投外，亦要提交设计方案等，政府在审批的时候亦会考虑设计元素，不一定价高者得。
中环对上一幅商业地在2017年5月批出，恒地(00012)以232.8亿元投得美利道地皮，每呎楼面地价达5万元。
虽然今次新海滨地王位置更佳，不过规模太大，加上遇上市况影响，估值约645亿至792.4亿元，每呎楼面地价约3.5万至4.3万元。代理比较悲观，估值属于市场下限。该代理认为，始终银码太大，去到500亿至600亿元已经是发展商心理关口。
目前中环甲级商厦呎租逾100元，属于超甲厦的国际金融中心2期呎租约160元，较高峰期200元有所回落，而交易广场呎租则约120元左右。
(经济日报)
MTR Corp plans gradual opening of Lohas Park mall amid struggle to find retail tenants
The MTR Corporation is struggling to find tenants to fill up The Lohas shopping centre in Tseung Kwan O because retailers are hesitant to commit to long-term leases amid a slump in consumer sentiment caused by months of social unrest and coronavirus.
The Lohas, which spans three-stories with a 480,000 sq ft of gross retail space, will open for business in phases from the second half this year, according to property director David Tang Chi-fai. Slightly more than half of the 150 store spaces have been taken up, he disclosed on Monday.
“Many executives in the retail and catering sectors are quite conservative when it comes to opening up new shops [amid the coronavirus situation], which has delayed our plans for tenant sign-ups” Tang said. “The progress is not in line with our targets.”
Hong Kong’s retail industry has endured a prolonged slide since anti-government protests broke out in June last year, starving the city of its lifeblood, the mainland Chinese tourists and their purchasing power. The onset of Covid-19 epidemic has now compounded the dire outlook, with retail sales sliding by record pace during the busiest festive periods on the calendar.
Retail sales plunged 24.1 per cent in January from a year earlier, while mainland tourist arrivals fell to only 3,000 on average in February, compared with 200,000 last year, the government has said. Several retail chains have scaled back their operations in Hong Kong as sales slumped, including cosmetics group Sa Sa International, jewellery firm Chow Tai Fook and furniture store operator Pricerite Group.
Lohas Park is Hong Kong’s largest residential enclave, with an estimated 58,000 residents in 21,500 flats, when the project is completed in 2025. Residents living in about 10,000 housing units in Lohas Park have been waiting over a decade for a local shopping centre to meet daily necessities such as groceries and restaurants.
Tang said the signing up of new retail tenants has slowed over the past six weeks following the outbreak. Grocery stores and restaurants are the main sign-ups, while there is some resistance from cosmetics chains and luxury shop operators, he said, adding that talks regarding an ice-skating rink and a cinema are underway.
The government-controlled company has had to cut rents for all small and medium-enterprise tenants at its railway stations and 13 other shopping malls in February and March to help ease their financial strain. Tang said the MTR Corporation “will definitely consider” offering more concessions to retailers if the gloom persists.
A gradual opening of The Lohas is a better choice for MTR than waiting out for a market upturn, an agent said.
“We can expect quite a bit of foot traffic from local residents in the new mall, especially in supermarkets and restaurants,” the agent said. “They have waited for a long time for this mall to finally open and would make their lives much more convenient.”
The Lohas shopping centre is the rail operator’s largest residential area retail arcade since PopCorn2 in Tseung Kwan O in 2012. Earlier this year, it bought interest in two shopping malls from New World Development for HK$3 billion, which Tang said was aimed at boosting its future recurrent income to fund railway maintenance and upgrade.
The city’s sole rail operator faced a 44.8 per cent plunge in its recurrent profits in 2019, after writing off costs on the Sha Tin-Central rail link and its South Western Railway franchise in London. Last year, its revenues grew 1.1 per cent to HK$54 billion net profit dropped 25.5 per cent to HK$11.9 billion.
(South China Morning Post)
顺丰全层每呎1.39万沽造价重返三年前水平湾仔乙级商厦12年升值1.67倍
近期工商铺市况淡静，市场亦出现优质盘源，湾仔顺丰国际中心中层全层单位，以每呎1.39万易手，造价重返3年前水平，买家料可享回报率逾3厘。该物业于12年间升值逾1.67倍。
上址为湾仔皇后大道东182号顺丰国际中心中层全层单位，以3099.81万易手，以建筑面积2228方呎，平均呎价13912元，单位市值呎租逾35元，料买家可享回报逾3厘。有代理指出，该厦位于地标商厦合和中心对面，与港铁湾仔站距离步程大约3至5分鐘，向来放盘量少，于过去两年，每年只录得1至2宗买卖，是次最新成交，造价稍低于市价，并重返3年前水平。
面积2228方呎
土地註册处资料显示，上址原业主于2008年3月购入单位，作价1158.56万，持货12年，帐面获利1941.25万，升值逾1.67倍。
该名代理续说，以该单位呎价1.39万计算，造价重返2017年水平，该厦于2018年中至2019年初商厦高峰期，业主惜货，未见有任何买卖，因此未有创下最高成交呎价纪录。而于2017年9月，该厦22楼全层以3007.8万易手，当时平均呎价1.35万。
成交价3099万
由于顺丰国际中心位置及大厦质素俱佳，自从跌市以来，放盘不乏承租，去年9月，虽然大型示威持续，「赌王」何鸿燊女儿何超贤，斥资3119.2万购入该厦19楼全层，呎价1.4万，建筑面积约2228方呎，市值呎租逾35元，料回报率逾3厘。
上址原业主早于1994年购入单位，当时作价1559.6万，持货25年，帐面获利1559.6万，刚好升值1倍。土地註册处资料显示，原业主于2018年间，分别向两家财务公司承借一按及二按，有代理指出，这就是原业主要卖楼的原因。
料回报逾三厘
该厦一直不乏名人追捧，艺人刘愷威于2017年6月，购入该厦26楼全层，作价2851.84万，以单位建筑面积约2228方呎计算，平均每方呎约1.28万，原业主于2013年1月以2228万购入上址，持货约4年易手，帐面获利约623万，物业升值约28%。
该厦普遍都以全层形式买卖，只有个别楼层拆售，于2017年8月，该厦17楼04室，面积约376方呎，以每方呎约1.4万易手，涉资526.4万。
(经济日报)
Home buyers stay on the sidelines
The coronavirus outbreak continued to dampen sentiment as homebuyers gave a lukewarm response to the flats on offer at Emerald Bay Phase 2 in Tuen Mun, and Sun Hung Kai Properties (0016) recorded 11 deposit forfeitures at St Martin in Pak Shek Kok in a single day on March 6.
This came as the Hong Kong Monetary Authority reduced its benchmark interest rate by 50 points on March 4 in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve's emergency rate cut, while local banks left their prime rates on hold.
The forfeited deposits totaled nearly HK$15 million over the 11 flats at St Martin, with a sales director at an real estate agency firm giving up HK$3.35 million after pulling out of the purchase of a four-bedroom flat. The 11 flats were offered at between HK$6.72 million and HK$22.33 million, or between HK$17,067 per sq ft and HK$23,700 per sq ft.
In Tseung Kwan O, Wheelock and Company (0020) received around 300 subscriptions for 101 flats at its Ocean Marini project at Lohas Park as of yesterday afternoon. The developer will launch the project for sale as early as mid-March.
Meanwhile, China Evergrande (3333) sold only 49 out of 141 flats at Emerald Bay Phase 2 in Tuen Mun as of 3pm Saturday, though the developer had provided more discounts.
In late February, China Evergrande cut the average per-square-foot prices of the 250 flats in the first price list by 4 percent to HK$16,304, after discounts, from HK$16,942 previously.
In the secondary market, a real estate agency firm reported 15 secondary transactions at ten major housing estates over the past weekend, down by 30 percent week-on-week.
Blue-chip estates Kornhill in Quarry Bay, Metro City in Tseung Kwan O and Caribbean Coast in Tung Chung saw no secondary transactions.
In other secondary transaction activities, a 1,002-sq-ft flat at Kingswood Villas in Tin Shui Wai changed hands for HK$9.99 million, or HK$9,978 per sq ft, after about HK$2 million was slashed from the original asking price.
And a 545-sq-ft flat at Tai Koo Shing in Quarry Bay changed hands for HK$9.4 million, or HK$17,248 per sq ft, after HK$1.1 million was rubbed off from the initial asking price.
(The Standard)
Buyers spurn Hong Kong’s first home sale in two months, as Covid-19 outbreak adds weight to a slumping property market
Hong Kong’s homebuyers spurned the city’s first property sale in two months, as larger-than-usual discounts failed to attract them to big-ticket financial commitments amid a slumping economy wrecked by a coronavirus outbreak.
China Evergrande sold 49 of the 141 flats on offer at the second phase of its Emerald Bay project in Tuen Mun as at 5pm, even after increasing the discounts on each unit by HK$20,000 per square foot to an average of 14 per cent, from the previous 11 per cent, according to sales agents.
“Everyone is worried,” because the coronavirus “epidemic is so serious,” agent said. A sales haul of 34 per cent is “already very good [considering how] the price is not exceptionally cheap,” the agent said.
The reception at Hong Kong’s first major property launch in two months underscores the correction that is underway in the world’s most expensive residential property market, as the local economy finds itself in the first technical recession in more than a decade. It’s a slump that still has ways to go, even after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority slashed its base lending rate by 50 points on March 4 in lockstep with an emergency cut in the cost of money by the US Federal Reserve.
“The price [of Phase Two] is similar to that of Phase One,” another said, adding that the developer was also offering small units priced between HK$4 million and HK$5 million for buyers.
Emerald Bay, comprising 1,982 apartment units and 22 villas in Tuen Mun, is Evergrande’s maiden project in Hong Kong, as one of China’s biggest developers seeks to establish a beach head for expanding offshore. Its first offering of 167 flats last October sold out in one day, as the developer slashed prices amid easier mortgage financing rules to attract homebuyers to a neighbourhood that had been the focus of several anti-government protests.
Sales had been lacklustre after the first launch. With Evergrande’s latest discounts, a 461-square foot flat originally listed at HK$9.41 million could be bought for HK$8.07 million.
But this time around, sales agents are facing a hard time getting “worried” customers out of their homes to consider buying property. As many as 109 people were confirmed to have caught the coronavirus in Hong Kong, with two dead. Schools are shut until after Easter, while public servants and businesses had been asked to work from home to contain the outbreak, all of which are damping consumption and retail sales.
“Some buyers are worried about the health consequences of attending property sales, and decided to delay their buying decisions to avoid crowds [at sales venues],” the agent said. “Without the coronavirus epidemic, sales result would be 20 to 30 per cent better.”
Flat viewings have dwindled and transaction volumes shrunk in private housing estates, where some infected residents were detected by health authorities. Residents of some housing estates in Tuen Mun, the neighbourhood where Emerald Bay is located, were revealed to have caught the Covid-19 pathogen, according to the Department of Health.
The remainder of Evergrande’s unsold Phase Two flats will be offered on March 14 and March 28. The developer will have some competition to contend with.
Wheelock Properties, which owns the developer of the Harbour City and Times Square shopping centres, offered discounts of up to 22.1 per cent on average for 101 flats at its Ocean Marini project at Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O.
The properties – including 52 two-bedroom units with open kitchens, and ranging from 471 to 616 square feet – were originally priced at an average of HK$18,853 per square foot. A sale date has not yet been set.
“The Lohas Park project will be better,” the agent said. “[Emerald Bay] has been selling a long time. It’s not new. Its phase one still has a lot of remaining stock. If it were a new project, it would be better.”
(South China Morning Post)
长沙湾千禧工厦八亿沽 第一集团承接平均呎价6893元
政治活动加上疫症肆虐，令工商铺投资气氛低迷，有实力财团趁此时出手，第一集团刚斥资8亿元，购入长沙湾千禧大厦全幢工厦，项目具重建价值，平均呎价约6893元。原业主为利丰集团冯氏家族。
市场消息透露，长沙湾青山道924及926号千禧大厦全幢工厦，早于去年中放盘，业主意向价12亿，随着反修例运动及肺炎疫症接踵而来，业主多番减价，近期吸引多家财团尝试执「笋盘」，经过一轮讨价还价，最终落实由第一集团购入，作价约8亿元，以总楼面116045方呎计算，平均呎价6893元；该厦佔地1.2万方呎，重建地积比12倍计算，可重楼面14.4万方呎，平均呎价5555元。今年1月，区内青山道550号至556号恆发工业大厦以约10.7亿易手，楼面呎价5632元，有代理分析，今番千禧大厦较恒发更接近港铁站，其造价更低，可见疫症带来影响。
楼面呎价5555元
千禧大厦由利丰集团冯氏家族私人持有，于2004年6月购入，作价2.4亿，随着今番易手，帐面获利约5.6亿，物业于十六年间升值2.3倍。该物业于2017年至2019年间，出租予利洋针织，其时月租约208万，惟随着该租客迁出，近年月收约170万。而新买家第一集团并非着眼于租金收入，而是打算补地价重建甲厦。
第一集团亦于2018年9月，购入长沙湾大南西街1016至1018号广隆泰大厦全幢工厦，作价12.5亿，地盘面积约14790方呎，地积比率12倍，可重建楼面约177480方呎，楼面呎价约7043元，由于该地段规划为其他指定用途(商业)，集团透过补价重建甲厦，目前地盘则平整中。
16年升值2.3倍
第一集团近年进取，除了上述长沙湾2个项目，近年亦购入荃湾3个工厦项目，荃湾大涌道18号商业项目，正在申请预售，主打800至1000方呎单位，有机会今年中之前开售，项目接近港铁荃湾站及西铁站，与愉景新城相隔一条街。
荃湾区内柴湾角街71至75号项目，则作工厦发展，主打面积800多呎单位，亦将于今年内推售。
长沙湾早年聚集制衣相关的行业，属传统工业区，近年迅速转型，其中，新世界发展「落重注」，于3至4年前，接连于区内投得3幅商业地，总地价近150亿，2016年2月，先以约78亿元购入琼林街商贸地，楼面呎价约7808元，同年5月再斥资逾40亿投得近长顺街商业地，楼面呎价7478元。2017年8月更以29.6748亿元投得永康街商贸地，上述三幅地皮共涉楼面约190万方呎。
(星岛日报)
上环一洲呎价1.3万易手重返三年前水平
近期商厦纷减价放盘，其中上环区乙厦一洲大厦高层全层，以约1880万易手，平均呎价约1.3万，售价较2018年高位回落21%，重返三年前水平，新买家料回报3.3厘。
代理表示，上环德辅道中262号一洲大厦20楼全层，面积约1426方呎，以约1880万易手，平均呎价约13184元，物业交吉交易，新买家有意自用，作为业务扩展之用。原业主叫价约2400万，见买家属自用，减价约20%。原业主于2010年中斥资约930万买入物业，帐面获利约950万，持货10年升值一倍。
一洲大厦于2017年底，该厦8楼全层，面积间隔一样，以2400万易手，平均呎价高逾1.68万，今番易手单位，较高位回落21%，重返三年前水平。
料回报3.3厘
该代理表示，一洲为区内优质乙厦，毗邻港铁站出口，玻璃幕墙，一梯一伙设计，平地电梯，每层(即每个)单位拥有独立冷气及洗手间，该厦市值呎租约36元，料回报3.3厘。
近期甲厦纷录低价承租，继美国银行中心，力宝中心及海富中心外，金鐘远东金融中心1501室，面积约2784方呎，以每呎约60元租出，该单位望政府总部，同类型单位于2018年高峰期呎租约98元，于2016年时，呎租约60元，故今番租金水平较高位回落38%，重返2016年中水平。同厦1904室，于2017年11月以每呎74.8元承租。
远金每呎50元租出
另外，尖沙嘴港威大厦1座1801室，面积约2055方呎，以每呎约48元租出，亦属低市价水平。
旺角通菜街2Q至2Z号鸿辉大厦地下02(通菜街2R)号铺，面积约1000方呎，原业主开价4000万，终以约2200万沽出，平均呎价2.2万，租客为食肆，月租7.2万，料回报约3.96厘。原业主于2004年以950万购入，持货16年，帐面获利1250万，物业升值逾1倍。
(星岛日报)
观塘工厦「逆市」申建酒店
近期有不少项目积极申请改划，即使近期酒店业步入寒冬，亦有财团申请重建，其中，兴胜创建持有的观塘工厦禧年大厦，申请略为放宽地积比率及建筑物高度限制，以重建成酒店。据城规会资料显示，项目地盘5780方呎，地积比由12倍放宽至15.836倍发展，可建约8.3万方呎，拟议重建成1幢楼高不多于36层酒店，涉及160个房间。
另外，九龙塘根德道14号业主新近向城规会申请，放宽建筑物高度限制以容许闢设1层地库，以作准许的屋宇用途。项目地盘约10751方呎，拟议地积比0.6倍发展，可建约6443方呎，拟议兴建1幢楼高4层洋房。申请人指，拟建的1层地库用作停车场或附属机房用途。另外，该项目于2018年8月获屋宇署批出拟建独立屋的建筑图则。
(星岛日报)
核心区铺空置率 疫下创9.2%新高
疫症持续，加上早前社会运动，零售业遭遇前所未有冲击，商铺市场惨淡。业界统计，目前4大核心零售区空置率升至9%，预计未来数月市况持续欠佳，今年核心区吉铺恐再增，空置率势比03年沙士更高，料年内铺租下调4成。
有代理最近进行核心区吉铺统计，就4大核心零售区旺角、铜锣湾、尖沙咀及中环，涉及156条街道，共7,503间商铺，调查相关出租情况。
美代理分析指，受本港社会事件影响，访港旅客人次大减，本地居民消费意慾下降，不少商户结业，整体吉铺数目及街铺空置率急升。截至2020年第一季，4核心区共有689间吉铺，比去年第三季大增207间，空置率高达9.2%，两者同创2016年有纪录以来新高，较去年第三季的6.5%飈升2.7个百分点。
代理估铺市 迈「超大型调整期」
4大核心区二綫地段，如尖沙咀加连威老道、铜锣湾谢斐道、旺角通菜街等，近期吉铺处处。如铜锣湾轩尼诗道黄金广场地下铺位，原由六福珠宝以350万租用，近日正式迁出，业主正以300万招租，降价逾1成。此外，亦有不少零售商因应疫情，每日营业时间缩短，甚至暂停营业，令以往热闹的尖沙咀、铜锣湾街头晚上非常冷清。
代理指出，上述数据仍未完全反映新冠肺炎的冲击，今年第三季的空置率会持续上升，预计今年底4大核心区吉铺数字逾900间，即较现时多出逾200间。
吉铺转多，业主减价幅度明显，代理指近期业主普遍愿意减租，或降价吸客，惟营商气氛欠佳，未见承接力，代理预计铺市进入「超大型调整期」，淡静情况持续较长时间，单计今年铺租料再跌4成，租金重返2006年水平。
事实上，自去年中社会事件爆发开始，零售铺位空置率已经出现上升压力。根据差估署统计，去年年底铺位空置率约10.1%，较2018年增加0.7个百分点，属于2005年之后新高。市场估计，随着近期疫情进一步打击，空置率将会升穿03年10.8%的沙士高位。
学者：业主持货力强 拒大幅减租
浸大财务及决策系副教授麦萃才称，空置率会维持多久，最重要是视乎业主愿不愿意减租，甚至容许採用短租铺，因此过去十几年地铺的供应变化不大，分别只是档次不同，如果业主肯减租，主要做本地生意的行业亦可承接铺位。不过，他估计由于现时大部分铺位业主持货能力强，有机会一时三刻未必愿意大幅减租，高空置率的情况或持续一段时间。
盛滙商铺基金创办人李根兴则认为，在各项措施下，自由行人数跌至零，核心区商户生意受冲击，租铺意慾低，但同时间，核心区铺位业主多持货力强，为免物业估值大跌，个别寧愿丢空铺位也拒绝大减租，他相信核心区铺位空置率难下跌，租金跌两成亦难免。
(经济日报)
金鐘海富中心 海景户呎租40元
散业权商厦租金屡见低位，消息指，金鐘海富中心海景单位，以每平方呎约40元租出，为4年低位。
散业权商厦租金屡现低价
市场消息指，金鐘海富中心中层1室，面积约6,135平方呎，以每月约24.5万元租出，呎租约40元，单位享海景，加上位处中高层，质素不错。
按呎租计，为该厦4年新低，对上一宗呎租40餘元成交，为2016年9月，物业1座低层3B室，面积约5,568平方呎，呎租约41元。事实上，近期散业权商厦租金屡出现低价成交，如早前美国银行中心高层户，面积约2,637平方呎，以约11.07万元租出，呎租约42，创10年新低。
力宝中心减租超过两成
受疫情影响，不少商厦业主减租吸客，有代理表示，获委託放租金鐘力宝中心2座2506室，面积约2,337平方呎，业主意向呎租原为每呎59元，现减价至每呎46元，减幅超过两成，折合租金为约10.7万元。
上环信德中心西座中层10室，面积约1,402平方呎，以每月约5.9万元租出，呎租约42元。另远东金融中心极高层02室，面积约2,400平方呎，以每平方呎约98元租出。
(经济日报)
上环信德中心呎租42元低30%重返四年前水平
受多项不明朗因素夹击，市场观望气氛瀰漫，带动甲厦租金拾级而下，消息指，上环信德中心海景单位以呎租42元租出，低市价约30%，创四年以来新低。金鐘海富中心单位以每呎40元租出，亦纷重回四年前水平。
甲厦租金持续下滑，市场消息指出，上环信德中心 (西翼) 中层10室，面积约1402方呎，以58884元租出，平均呎租约42元，低市价约30%，重回四年前水平；区内资深代理指出，上址坐享开扬海景，属优质单位，市值租金达每呎60元，市值呎价亦高达3.8万，因市场受多项负面因素困扰，令甲厦市场亦不能倖免，租金明显受压。
料回报近二厘
据土地註册处资料显示，上址业主于2013年以兴海国际金属集团有限公司名义购入，作价3645.2万，以最新租金计算，料回报约1.93厘。
据代理资料显示，该甲厦早前录一宗承租个案，低层单位，面积615方呎，于上月底以41820元租出，平均呎租约68元；若该甲厦呎租跌穿50元水平，需追溯至2016年8月，当时该厦低层单位，面积2559方呎，以110037元租出，平均呎租约43元。
海富中心呎租40元减13%
另一方面，金鐘甲厦租金亦备受压力，市场消息指出，海富中心1座1801室，面积6135方呎，以每呎40元租出，租金245400元。据区内代理分析道，上述租金较市价低约15%，并重回四年前水平，该单位前租客为航空公司，2017年中呎租约46元，与最新租金比较，下跌幅度约13%。
另一代理表示，金鐘力宝中心2座4楼07至10室，为四相连单位，总面积约3648方呎，以意向呎价约2.5万放售，涉及总金额约9120万。代理续称，该甲厦2座最高成交呎价为3.9万，该成交位于该厦26楼相连单位，总面积约3341方呎，于2018年初成交，而低层单位成交呎价最高为3.7万，该单位为2座5楼11至12室，面积约2199方呎，于2018年初录得。
代理表示，观塘创业街36号华基中心中层单位，面积约384方呎，以315万连约成交，平均呎价约8203元，租约期至2021年8月，市场月租8380元，料回报3.2厘，原业主于2011年148万购入，持货9年，帐面获利170万，新买家为区内投资者。该单位附写字楼装修，特高楼底12.5呎。
(星岛日报)
Office rents continue to decrease
Rents in Grade-A offices dropped by half to about HK$50 per sq ft only, with companies closing down or seeing their expansion plans derailed due to the virus.
The latest case is an office in Lippo Centre.
A 2,337 square-foot room at the Lippo Centre was rented for HK$107,000 per month or HK$46 per sq ft, 22 percent lower than the asking price.
A property agency firm expects property transactions during the first quarter will record a four-year low according to its market sentiment index that tracks prices offered by property owners.
The agency firm expects first-hand property transactions will only number 2,500 in the first quarter and 8,500 for second-hand transactions.
They added that transaction numbers may rebound if owners offer discounted asking prices continuously and the market expects a decline in housing supply.
Property prices are expected to drop 5 percent in the first half of this year, the agent added. The index fell 30.4 percent month-on-moth to 45.9, which is below the average value of 61.6, reflecting the declining trend.
Tsuen Wan Centre in New Territories West recorded six secondary transactions during the past three days. Other major home estates in the district also record transactions.
A 374-square-foot flat at Tsuen Wan Centre changed hands for HK$5.14 million, or HK$13,740 per sq ft. In the same district, a 536-dq-ft flat at Allway Gardens was sold at HK$5.7 million.
Victoria Skye in Kai Tak, developed by K&K Property, launched seven special units with discounts, ranging from 1,410-1,540 sq ft. Buyers can also acquire an HK$3.21 million parking spot.
(The Standard)
Fixed-rate mortgage plan fails to stir market
The property market is still
struggling to regain its footing amid the coronavirus outbreak, as a property agency
recorded 22 secondary transactions at ten major housing estates over the past
weekend, down by 4.3 percent week-on-week.
This came after Financial Secretary
Paul Chan Mo-po unveiled a fixed-rate mortgage loans pilot scheme in the budget
speech.
But it was the second consecutive
weekend that the number of secondary transactions exceeded 20, according to the
agency.
Some homeowners are willing to cut
asking prices amid economic uncertainties, which has boosted secondary
transactions, another agent said.
An agent from the first agency firm
expects developers to step up launching projects in the primary market this
month.
In Tin Shui Wai, a 549-sq-ft flat at
Kingswood Villas changed hands for HK$5.6 million, or HK$10,200 per sq ft,
after HK$700,000 was cut from the original asking price.
In Tai Koo Shing, a 582-sq-ft flat
at fetched HK$11.88 million, or HK$20,412 per sq ft, after HK$420,000 was
slashed from the initial asking price.
Kennedy Town saw a 464-sq-ft flat at
Cayman Rise sold for HK$10.2 million, or HK$20,819 per sq ft, after HK$540,000
was rubbed off from the first asking price.
And in the Mid-Levels, a
three-bedroom flat at The Grand Panorama changed hands for HK$20.38 million, or
HK$20,967 per sq ft, after HK$1.62 million was cut from the original asking
price.
In the Grade-A office market, another
property agency firm recorded 5 transactions at 50 major Grade-A offices in
February, up by 66 percent month-on-month, as landlords are willing to slash
asking prices amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak.
The agent expects more price cuts in
the future as the coronavirus , which continues to spread across the world,
could be a new black swan for the global economy.
The vacancy rate of Grade-A offices
in Central surged to a five-year high of 4 percent in January, according to an
international property consultancy firm.
The property consultancy firm said
rents of Grade-A offices in Central dropped 1.1 percent month-on-month to
HK$120 per sq ft.
They also said that some companies
are postponing leases over coronavirus concerns.
(The Standard)
