安達臣道商業地共收5標書

本港疫情反覆，整體商業氣氛不景氣，惟市區再有商業地供應，觀塘安達臣道對出的商業地將於昨日截標，地政總署公布，共接獲5份標書；據現場所見及綜合市場消息，入標財團包括長實、新地、信和、領展及華懋。

長實新地信和領展華懋入標

有測量師指出，該發展區以中密度發展公、私營住宅用途，將來區內居民的日常消費，主要依靠發展區中央的兩幅商業地皮，料該地皮將來作為民生商場發展為主，風險並不高，惟因商業氣氛不景氣，料財團出價較保守。綜合市場估值約6億至9.1億，每方呎估值約4300至6500元。

上述安達臣道的「蚊型」商業地，位於安達臣道對出 (測量約份第3約地段1078號) 用地，鄰近公屋安達邨，地盤面積約6.3萬方呎，指定作非工業，不包括住宅、辦公室、酒店、倉庫及加油站用途，可建總樓面約13.9萬方呎，是政府自2018年推售該區地皮以來首次推出商業用地招標。

屯門大欖限呎地「捲土重來」

另外，今年4月流標的屯門大欖限呎地「捲土重來」重新推出招標，地政總署昨公布，推出屯門青山公路－大欖段的屯門市地段第561號住宅地招標，該地鄰近屯門公路，位於私樓琨崙以東；綜合市場最新估值約49.6億至65.3億，每方呎樓估值約3800至5000元，對比年初估值跌約20%。

地皮面積約36.29萬方呎，可建總樓面約130.64萬方呎，是政府為回應市民「住大啲」的訴求、首幅加入最低單位面積280方呎限制的用地。將於9月2日起招標，9月30日截標。該用地曾於今年4月首次推出時接獲5份標書，但因標書金額未達政府所定的底價，隨即流標收場；當時入標財團包括長實、新地、恒基、信和及嘉華。

(星島日報)

康宏廣場相連單位意向價5911萬

有代理表示，尖沙咀康宏廣場中層相連單位，面積約4284方呎，業主意向售價約5911.9萬元，呎價約1.38萬元。

該行指出，上述單位現已交吉，間隔四正實用，外望開揚園景。大廈附設14部客梯，用戶出入極為方便，能迎合不同公司的需求，適合不同行業進駐設立總部。

(信報)

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1亞太中心四相連單位14.2萬租出

有代理表示，觀塘1亞太中心中層4個相連單位，總面積約5806方呎，以14.2萬元獲承租，呎租約24元。

該行指出，租客為舊客戶，一直有留意觀塘區寫字樓的租金走勢，見近月寫字樓租金有較大的議價空間，經過逾1個月時間，雙方終於成交。

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Hong Kong buyers snatch up all flats on offer at Sun Hung Kai’s Novo Land ahead of city’s potential new prime rate increase

Buyers snatched up all of the 170 units on offer at the Novo Land project in Tuen Mun just four hours after sales commenced on Saturday

Speculation that major commercial banks, including HSBC and BOC Hong Kong, will push for a prime rate increase helped fuel demand

Hong Kong extended its latest streak of strong weekend property sales on Saturday, as buyers rushed to snap up flats on offer at Sun Hung Kai Properties’ (SHKP) Novo Land development, in a pre-emptive move ahead of a potential new prime rate increase in the city.

SHKP, the city’s biggest developer by market cap, sold all of the 170 units on offer at the second phase of its Novo Land project in Tuen Mun just four hours after sales commenced at 9am on Saturday, according to local real property agents and media.

“About 80 per cent of buyers [at Novo Land] are from the New Territories, and they are very positive on the outlook of the development in the northern part of the city,” a property agent said. “Lots of people piled in today after they failed to buy flats during Novo Land’s previous launches.”

By contrast, the 58 units on offer at Grand Victoria, a project in Cheung Sha Wan jointly developed by Wheelock Properties and Sino Land, found no buyers as of 3pm on Saturday.

The average sales price at Novo Land was HK$14,780 (US$1,883) per square foot, representing a 5.6 per cent increase from the initial launch of the development’s second phase in August and a 12 per cent gain from its first-phase offer last month. The size of units at Novo Land range from 242 square feet (22.5 square metres) to 708 square feet, which translates to a price band of between HK$3.5 million and HK$9.8 million.

The strong demand for flats at SHKP’s development on Saturday reflects the city’s robust streak of weekend sales in August, as developers provided discounts to attract more buyers.

Speculation that Hong Kong’s major commercial banks, including HSBC and BOC Hong Kong, will push for a prime rate increase also fuelled buying. The prime rate sets a reference to the mortgage rate.

Meanwhile, the average sales price at Grand Victoria was HK$26,508 per square foot, implying a 7.7 per cent increase from the development’s previous launch in March. The size of flats in the project range from 278 square feet to 807 square feet, which shows a price band of between HK$6.5 million and HK$22.9 million.

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday asserted his stance to raise interest rates in a bid to drive down inflation at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, held in Wyoming. In July, the Fed raised the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to tame high inflation.

While the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has raised its base lending rate – the borrowing cost charged on commercial lenders – each time the Fed tightened credit this year, HSBC and other note-issuing banks in the city have so far refrained from raising their prime rate, a move that analysts expect will erode margins.

Still, some economists predicted that the prime rate will rise by 25 basis points at the end of this year. The prime rate currently stands at 5 per cent at HSBC and its subsidiary Hang Seng Bank, as well as at BOC Hong Kong. Standard Chartered Bank and other local lenders have pegged their borrowing costs at 5.25 per cent.

In the previous cycle, the city’s banks waited through nine consecutive increments of 25 basis points increase by the HKMA before raising their prime rate by 12.5 basis points in 2018, passing some of the higher borrowing costs to customers for the first time in a decade.

Sentiment in Hong Kong’s property market has stabilised since June, when total transactions about newly built homes hit a 10-month high of about 1,300 units, according to another property agency. The property agency warned that housing demand may shrink moving forward because of new supply in the market and rising interest rates.

Hong Kong’s growth forecast this year could be lowered, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said last month, as business confidence has been dented by ongoing Covid-19 control measures and the city’s closed border with the mainland.

(South China Morning Post)