西環皇后洒店錄取消交易

疫情重創工商鋪市場，觀望氣氛揮之不去，酒店物業市場亦受壓。西環皇后大道西199號皇后酒店全幢，原於上月以3.1億作交，惟有關交易已告吹，料買家損失約3100萬。

料沒收3100萬訂金

知情人士透露，上述項目買家已撻訂離場、料買家損失約10%訂金，以成交價計涉資約3100萬。本報向負責該項目的代理查詢，該公司回應，皇后酒店全幢早前原以3.1億易手，惟昨日獲原業主通知，該項目重新放售。

剛重新放售

據土地註冊處資料，上述項目原先買家以公司名義登記，為萬通控股有限公司(GRAND FORTUNE OVERSEAS HOLDING LIMITED)、為海外註冊公司。該項目前身為寫字樓，樓高23層，後來改作酒店，設有40個房間。

(星島日報)

萬科等37億奪大埔馬窩路地 高次標1%

萬科香港夥拍青建國際 (01240)上月底以37億元奪大埔馬窩路住宅地，地政總署公布餘下入標價，市場競爭激烈，中標價只是較第二口標價高出約1%，首三份書入標價的差距少於5%。

該地皮位於大埔新峰花園的西北面，佔地約24.34萬平方呎，指定作私人住宅用途，最高可建樓面約78.1萬平方呎，接獲13份標書，由萬科香港夥拍青建國際以37.05億元奪得，每呎樓面地價約4,738元，符合市場預期。

據地政總署公布其餘標書入標價，其中次高的標書入標價36.6億元，萬科財團只是險勝1%或4,500萬元，而最高價的首3份標書均高於35億元，差距少於5%。

入標的13份標書入標價介乎15.64億至37.05億元，每呎樓面地價介乎2,000元至4,738元不等，當中有6份入標價高於30億元，而中位數為26.15億元，相當於每呎樓面地價約3,344元，較中標價低3成左右。

日後開售呎價約13961元

至於最低入標價只是15.64億元，每呎樓面地價僅2,000元，較中標價低58%，不過仍然高於2016年中國海外 (00688) 以21.3億元投得同區山塘路地皮(現建成為天鑽)。

市場估計，以萬科等的中標價加上建築成本等總投資額料達80億元，日後落成開售實用呎價約13,961元。

根據萬科香港表示，中標價錢合理，地皮環境優美，將計劃在地皮興建中低密度住宅，預計單位逾1,000伙。

(經濟日報)

Seacoast Royale extends brisk sale for a fourth weekend as Hong Kong buyers snap up homes amid low rates and easing Covid-19

As many as 29 of the 52 units of Seacoast Royale in Tuen Mun found buyers by 5:30pm in the fourth round of sales on Saturday

The property project saw price increases by as much as 17 per cent following the successful previous three batches of launches

The Seacoast Royale apartment complex in Tuen Mun extended its brisk sales for the fourth weekend, as decreasing cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong spurred more homebuyers to venture out of lockdown to take advantage of low borrowing rates amid a flood of liquidity.

Buyers snapped up 29 of the 52 flats, or 55 per cent of the day’s offerings by 5:30pm during the weekend sale, according to sales agents. Another 24 flats in the batch are being put up for tender until October 5.

“It is selling well, with a total of 600 units sold out [in the four rounds of the sales],” agent. “That reflects good real demand.”

The successful sale at Seacoast Royale, developed by Empire Group Holdings and Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings), is a sigh of relief for Hong Kong’s developers, who are bracing for challenging times as a glut of residential property enters the city’s worst economic recession in decades.

Marketed by Henderson Land Developments, Seacoast Royale reported three consecutive sell-out weekends, with as many as 46 people submitting bids for every available unit on August 1, as investors sought to park their money in the world’s most expensive property market amid access to easy money that was released by global central bank to combat the economic damage of the coronavirus epidemic.

Hong Kong’s easing of social-distancing rules enticed investors back to the weekend property launches, as the daily new infection cases constantly drop in recent weeks. Starting Friday, dine-in services at restaurants have been extended to 9pm from 6pm, cinemas and beauty parlours have been allowed to reopen and wearing a mask for outdoor exercise is not mandatory any more.

Strong response prompted the developers to raise their prices at Seacoast Royale, the biggest being a 17 per cent increase on a studio flat measuring 290 square feet (27 square metres), priced at HK$4.93 million (US$636,637).

The price increase reflected the slight uptick in Hong Kong’s home-price index, which rose 0.1 per cent in July, taking the gauge to its highest level in 10 months, according to the Rating and Valuation Department.

While last year’s anti-government protests and the outbreak of Covid-19 this year have plunged the economy of the former British colony into a recession, disruption of construction activities has strained supply of new houses and supported prices. Supply of new private residential flats will probably be reduced by between 3,000 and 92,000 unit in the following three to four years, according to the projection by the Transport and Housing Bureau.

Still, the gain slowed from a 2.2 per cent increase in May. Some agents were bearish on the property market because of the persistence of the pandemic. Home prices would probably fall by as much as 1 per cent in July and the decline would widen to more than 2 per cent this month, according to property agent.