疫情冲击 黛安芬求顶租One Kowloon

美资VF拟弃观塘ITT半层 涉1.5万呎

环球疫情下跨国企业生意受冲击，个别企业为节省开支，把写字楼放顶租。消息指，内衣品牌黛安芬租用九龙湾One Kowloon全层，现于市场放顶租。另美资採购公司VF把观塘ITT商厦半层楼面放顶租，涉约1.5万呎。

消息指，九龙湾One Kowloon高层全层单位，面积约2.3万平方呎，由黛安芬租用，据悉品牌现把全层于市场放顶租，物业市值呎租约28至30元。翻查资料，该品牌早年租用One Kowloon两全层单位，现因应市况，把其中一层放顶租。

需求疲弱 业界料租金向下

另消息指，观塘ITT商厦亦录放顶租楼层，涉及1.5万平方呎楼面，市值呎租约30元。该层楼面由採购公司VF租用，品牌于两年前，分阶段租用ITT商厦多层，作整合业务，现仅把部分楼层放顶租。

至于长沙湾区贸易广场方面，亦有企业部署减楼面，消息称，一家外资採购公司，租用物业约4万平方呎楼面，现研究放弃约1.5万呎，以节省开支。

业内人士指，自中美贸易战后，不少跨国企业特别採购、贸易公司，生意已受打击，再加上环球疫情，企业出现盈利倒退，故需从节省成本上入手，令近期商厦市场上放顶租的个案增，但在需求疲弱下，承接力一般，料租金仍向下。

另代理表示，葵涌永立街24至28号全幢工厦于去年落成后，首次进行招租工作，意向月租约120万元；大厦楼高16层，总楼面面积约103,364平方呎，平均呎租约11.6元。

(经济日报)

九龙甲厦空置升 东九租金料减1成

疫情反覆令经济难復甦，统计指，6月九龙整体甲厦空置率续升，业界料短期东九龙商厦租金料减1成。

疫情肆虐令全球经济活动停顿，营商环境困难，对写字楼需求下跌，带动空置率上升。有代理的数据指出，6月份九龙区甲厦空置率录得约11.61%，对比5月续升0.12个百分点，更较年初上升1.72个百分点，反映九龙甲厦整体需求疲弱。数字上升主要受东九龙区市况拖累所致，观塘及九龙湾甲厦空置率按月分别增加0.2及0.16个百分点；尖东最新甲厦空置则略见改善，按月下跌0.91个百分点至约10.01%。

代理表示，6月份整体九龙甲厦空置率为11.61%，按月轻微上升0.12个百分点，对比今年1月份的9.89%，则增加1.72个百分点。至于东九龙甲厦空置表现则持续恶化，观塘6月录得约13.54%，九龙湾约21.1%，分别按月上升0.2及0.16个百分点，较今年1月表现则分别上升2.25个百分点及1.61个百分点；数字反映新冠疫情肆虐至今已逾半年，经济环境持续向下，九龙区商厦空置率未有改善。

一綫商业区租跌 影响东九

该代理补充，东九龙甲厦空置率上升意味市场对其需求减少，资料显示，今年1至7月东九龙甲厦共录得约137宗租赁成交，涉及平均呎租约26.94元；对比2019年同期约224宗，平均呎租约29.39元，分别下跌约39%及8%。至于大楼面租务表现亦见疲弱，资料显示，今年1月至7月九龙区5,000平方呎以上的写字楼租务成交仅录得约72宗，2019年同期则有约179宗，成交宗数劲跌6成，可见企业对承租大楼面单位相当审慎。业主需要进一步调整叫价以增加物业吸引力，或变阵将单位大拆细迎合市场走势。

后市上，该代理行分析，东九龙商厦供应较大，空置情况较为严重，加上随着如尖东等一綫商业区租金下滑，直接影响东九龙写字楼价格亦会相应下调，短期减幅至少约一成。

(经济日报)

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美银续租呎价逼近百元

受疫情打击，甲厦市场观望气氛浓厚，惟市场则出现一宗高价承租，为近期罕见。市场消息指出，中环美国银行中心低层01至05室，面积3200方呎，获证券行以每方呎约98元续租，涉资约31.3万。

据代理指出，上址坐享全海景，为优质单位，是次呎租亦创该甲厦近1年来新高。

(星岛日报)

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美银半年跌37%「最伤」核心区甲厦售价急挫

自去年受中美贸易战及反修例事件夹击，再加上今年初新冠肺炎爆发，甲厦市场观望气氛瀰漫，拖累售价持续下滑。据本报统计资料显示，核心区内甲厦于过去半年仅录3幢甲厦成交，涉及7宗买卖，跌幅介乎15%至逾30%，当中以中环美国银行中心半年间跌幅「最伤」，每呎售价急挫约37%；据业内人士指出，随经济环境恶化，令部分业主议幅逐步扩阔，并预测甲厦市场于下半年仍处调整期。

核心区甲厦呎价急下滑。据本报统计资料显示，核心区甲厦呎价于去年起持续下跌，跌幅介乎15%至37%，当中以中环美国银行中心跌幅「最伤」，资料显示，金鐘美国银行中心2507室，于去年12月以4880万成交，以面积1137方呎计算，平均呎价约42920元。本月该甲厦最新成交为低层06至9室，面积3110方呎，以买卖公司形式作价8397万，平均呎价约2.7万，相距约半年，该甲厦售价急挫约37%。

力宝信德录低价成交

其餘核心区甲厦造价亦备受压力，资料显示，金鐘力宝中心2座高层1室，面积1686方呎，于去年4月以6443万成交，呎价约38216元；惟该甲厦最新成交于2座高层05至06室，合共面积约3652方呎，为银主盘，以每呎约2.8万沽，涉资逾1.02亿，上述2宗成交呎价相差约26%。

半年三甲厦涉七宗成交

至于位处上环的信德中心成交呎价持续回软，该甲厦近期成交量不多，自去年10月起仅录3宗成交，其中，该甲厦低层12室于于去年10月以2854万成交，以面积1057方呎计，每呎造价2.7万；该甲厦最新成交于今年7月，为中层10至11室，面积2582方呎，以6000万成交，平均呎价23238元，相距约8个月，呎价跌幅约15%。

另外，值得一提的是，受多项不明朗因素影响，令甲厦交投量「冰封」，资料显示，自去年6月反修例事件爆发以来，核心区内多幢甲厦均录「零成交」，当中包括中环中心、皇后大道中九号、金鐘海富中心及远东金融中心等。

业界：料市况持续调整

代理指出，受去年中美贸易战及反修例事件拖累，甲厦售价早已饱受压力，加上新冠肺炎于今年初爆发，更令市况「雪上加霜」。金鐘力宝中心及中环美国银行中心因业权较散，于「疫市」下部分业主因经济环境受压，割价沽货套现，造就成交呎价持续下跌。

代理表示，甲厦市场于今年首两季成交季已按年急挫约七成，今年以来成交价已下跌约20%，并料下半年有机会再跌约5%。

(星岛日报)

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Hong Kong’s June home prices rise to 10-month high as buyers defy coronavirus in search for safe haven assets

June’s index of used homes edged up by 0.1 per cent to 386.1, according to figures by the Rating and Valuation Department

Buoyant home prices have helped to halt the slide of mortgage borrowers into negative equity

Hong Kong’s home price index rose to the highest level in 10 months in June, as investors and speculators defied a third wave of coronavirus infections in the city in their search for safe haven assets amid a gloomy outlook for the global economy.

June’s index of used homes edged up by 0.1 per cent to 386.1, according to figures by the Rating and Valuation Department, chalking the highest level since 388.2 in August 2019. The index dipped by 1.9 per cent compared with June last year.

The coronavirus pandemic, which has sickened more than 3,000 people in Hong Kong and claimed 27 lives, also disrupted the city’s construction activity, cutting the number of new private residential units by 3,000 units to 92,000 for the next three to four years, according to data by the Transport an Housing Bureau. The drop in supply is helping to put a floor on home prices, analysts said.

“It is hit by the pandemic [as] the progress of construction was delayed,” property agent said, adding that the supply of new homes may fall below 90,000 units. “The epidemic has dragged down the sales of new homes, and the supply of new homes in the future will begin to decrease, which is a self-correction in the market.”

The prices of lived-in and newly launched homes are hanging on stubbornly in the world’s most expensive urban centre, even as its economy is mired in its worst recession on record. A flood of cheap liquidity unleashed by central banks has driven investors to search for better returns in fixed assets and precious metals, prodding them to snap up new apartments during weekend launches.

The latest data is not “reflecting the impact from the recent uptick in virus infections,” another agent, which expects home price to drop by about 5 per cent this year. “Correction in the property market is likely to continue.”

Buoyant home prices have arrested the slide of mortgage borrowers into negative equity, where the value of assets fall faster than their borrowings. As many as 127 mortgage borrowers were in negative equity in June, compared with 384 at the end of March, with the aggregate value falling to HK$727 million from HK$1.867 billion during the period, according to data by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). At the bottom of Hong Kong’s real estate market in 2003, a record 105,697 cases of negative equity was recorded.

“The current cases are peanuts compared with 2003,” a mortgage broker said. “The bounce in home prices helped reduce the number of the negative mortgages during the quarter. Looking ahead, the third quarter is full of uncertainties due to the third wave of the pandemic in July.

The number of completed, but unsold properties rose slightly by 1,000 units to 11,000, the highest quarterly level in 13 years, property agent said. The total number of flats that start construction and to be completed this year will also miss their targets as the pandemic drags on progress.

To be sure, the growth in prices has slowed, compared with the 2.2 per cent increase seen in May, as the coronavirus outbreak took hold, another agent said, adding that a decline of between 0.5 and 1 per cent will be seen in July while August will see the fall widened to over 2 per cent.

(South China Morning Post)