中环中心全层作价7亿 星展银行连约承租
「磁带大王」陈秉志早前一口气沽出中环中心2全层，其中66楼全层已于土地註册处登记，新买家为该厦大业主之一星展银行（DBS），作价7亿，平均呎价近2.6万。
平均呎价近2.6万
中环中心66楼全层以7亿易手，卖方THE CENTER (66) LTD，登记买家DBS BANK (HONG KONG) LTD，作价7亿，儘管中环中心早于落成时，每层单位由公司持有，方便日后买卖公司，然而，星展银行并没有选择买入公司，而是直接购入物业。
该全层建筑面积约26967方呎，平均呎价25958元。现时该物业由Regus香港办公室空间租用。
「磁带大王」陈秉志沽货
据了解，陈秉志持有的75楼，早前连同66楼一併沽出，买家亦是星展银行，惟暂时未见登记。星展银行DBS目前持有该厦9层全层楼面，连同新买入的66楼全层，合共持10层楼面。
陈秉志在2017年11月，伙拍多位投资者以402亿购入中环中心75%业权，并获分7层楼面，以当年购入价平均每呎3.3万计算，现时66楼全层以呎价近2.6万沽出，跌幅逾21%。
(星岛日报)
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京东斥15亿购沙田利丰中心全幢
电子商务巨企之一的京东集团，旗下京东智能产发 (JDP) 完成收购沙田利丰中心全幢，京东表示，该项交易能为香港提供可靠有效率的物流服务，在温和利息环境下更令集团长期受益。市场消息指，该全幢作价约15亿，平均呎价约3078元。
本报早于今年6月14日报道，沙田利丰中心全幢将由用家以15亿承接，该买家身份昨日曝光，京东网页指，旗下京东智能产发有限公司 (JINGDONG Property，Inc. 简称JDP)，已完成收购沙田利丰中心全幢。
曹东：有利拓展集团业务
京东首席执行官曹东表示，对收购该项物流基施感到满意，反映团队在整合资源及完成交易方面极具效率，此举将有利拓展集团业务。
京东智能产发亚洲区主管Richard Law更指，该项目得以令京东为香港提供更可靠有效率的物流服务，在利率持续温和的年代，该项投资令集团长期获益不少，集团将继续积极在亚太区寻找机遇。
今年暂最大宗工厦买卖
据了解，早于6月中，买卖双方已握手达成初步协议，物业将以15亿易手，其时并通知大厦租客觅新址搬迁，由于该宗为大买卖，过去三个月，买方忙于尽职审查，双方忙于跟进细节，最终在近期完成交易，亦是今年暂录最大宗的工业物业买卖。
京东未有透露购入价，市场消息指作价15亿，以该全幢面积48.73万方呎计算，平均呎价约3078元，若以全幢物流中心而言，呎价甚为低廉，虽然如此，原业主仍然获利可观，原业主为La Salle Investment Management Inc. 旗下客户筹组的基金，早于2004年4月以约近2.685亿向利丰集团购入该全幢，帐面获利12.315亿，物业升值逾4.5倍。
该全幢由单一租客Maersk承租，是一个总部设于丹麦哥本哈根、世界知名的跨国企业，以运输及能源作为主要的业务核心，也是世界上最大的货柜船运经营者及货柜船供应商，早于2004年当该项目易手时，签下14年长约，租期直至2018年，Maersk早前忙于为搬迁觅新址。
平均呎价3078元
业内人士指，利丰中心属于今年以来最大宗工业物业买卖，而且买家来自内地，显示在逆市下，实力巨企趁势购物业自用，志在服务香港市场，对本地投下了信心一票，别具意义。
在利率持续温和的年代，该项投资令集团长期获益不少。
(星岛日报)
Hong Kong’s ‘Cassette King’ sells The Center offices to DBS at discount amid property woes
Singapore’s largest banking group paid HK$700 million, or about HK$26,000 per square foot, for the 66th floor of The Center building in Sheung Wan.
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) bought an entire floor of offices in what was formerly the world’s most expensive tower, taking advantage of a commercial property slump to expand its footprint in the city.
Singapore’s largest banking group paid HK$700 million, or about HK$26,000 per square foot, for the 66th floor of The Center building in Central from David Chan Ping-chi, a Hong Kong tycoon known as the “Cassettes King”. The property was handed over on Thursday, according to the local land registry.
The purchase price amounted to a discount of about 21 per cent from Chan’s purchase price in 2018, when he was part of the consortium that paid a combined HK$40.2 billion for the entire building from tycoon Li Ka-shing. Chan owned seven floors in the building, including the 66th floor that measures 26,967 sq ft.
DBS will own 10 floors at The Center after its purchase, from the 10th through the 18th floors, excluding 13th and 14th because those numbers are considered unlucky, as well as levels 50, 66 and 73. Regus Centre (HK) has been the current tenant of level 66 since 2020; its lease is expiring in October 2026.
The purchase comes as Hong Kong’s office leasing market is in a troubling slump. Nearly a fifth of the commercial floor space across the city remains unoccupied, an unprecedented level of vacancy that is casting a pall over Hong Kong’s claim to be Asia’s financial hub. Rental levels have fallen to levels last seen in 2015, according to analysts.
An index measuring overall office rents in Hong Kong fell last quarter to the lowest point since early 2015, according to the Rating and Valuation Department. Rents for grade A and grade B offices have declined by 33 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively, from their peaks in 2018-19, according to a local property agency.
Amid the sluggish office market outlook, more supply will be introduced to the market.
The city’s landlords including Sun Hung Kai Properties, Mandarin Oriental Hotel/Hongkong Land, and SEA Holdings are adding some 3 million square feet (278,709 square metres) of new office space to the market next year, another property consultancy estimated. That is expected to exacerbate the oversupply situation, currently at an all-time high of 17 per cent across the city.
Meanwhile, investors like Chan are also ready to offload their assets due to liquidity pressure as borrowing costs remained high and the property market outlook remained uncertain.
Chan, one of the staunch holdouts when his fellow investors began disposing of their holdings in The Center in 2018, may have finally yielded to the pressure of high interest rates. He has also put his 75th floor on the market for sale, according to local media reports, although the Land Registry data has yet to show a transaction.
Still, he has been selling assets elsewhere in Hong Kong. On Monday, he offered to sell his HK$1 billion building at No. 321 Java Road in North Point, formerly known as Kodak House Phase 1, according to the property agent.
On Tuesday, the receivers of 130 shops at “Macau Square” in the Shun Tak Centre put their assets on the market, according to Colliers. The project used to be co-owned by Chan and the former Macau “Junket King” Alvin Chau Cheok-wa.
(South China Morning Post)
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