荃湾灰窰角街两物业 申改新工厦

政府重啟工厦活化后，不少业主积极改装工厦物业，其中有财团就荃湾灰窰角街18至32号，申请放宽地积比率，以作准许的工业用途，涉及总楼面面积约18.9万平方呎。

荃湾灰窰角街18至32号分别为富源工业大厦及美德大厦，目前坐落于「工业」地带，而业主现正向城规会申请放宽地积比率限制，由最高9.5倍放宽至11.4倍，以作准许的工业用途，并计划重建1幢22层高的工厦，另设2层地库，涉及总楼面面积约18.9万平方呎。

申请人表示，由于拟建方案可为荃湾东工业区一带转型为现代工业区创下良好先例，而且可增强该带视觉及透风效益，加上入口设置的盖空间及簷篷，可为行人提供遮阳避雨的功效等，故相信可为公共规划带来益处。

值得一提的是，财团于去年已就其中位于荃湾灰窰角街24至32号的美德大厦，提出以地积比率由最高9.5倍放宽至11.4倍发展，重建1幢22层高新型工厦，当时总楼面涉约11.95万平方呎。

另外，城规会昨日审议一批项目改划的申请，其中由第一集团持有的长沙湾大南西街1016至1018号广隆泰大厦，向城规会申请放宽地积比率，并重建为新式工厦，获城规会通过。

(经济日报)

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恒基西半山旧楼批强拍

市区物业频获财团出手併购，其中，由恒基积极併购的西半山翡翠园获批强拍令，底价25.05亿。

据土地审裁处最新资料，是次涉及为西半山罗便臣道105号翡翠园，强拍底价25.05亿，但相比19年恒基申请强拍时，其市场估值12.816亿，高出约95%

翡翠园全幢底价逾25亿

目前恒基已收集逾87%业权，高于提出强拍时的逾83%。项目地盘面积2.75万方呎，现址为3幢10层高住宅，另连停车库，并于1968年落成，楼龄约52年。

至于同样由恒基併购的红磡黄埔街22至24号及必嘉街88至99A号，早前亦批出强拍令，底价4.82亿，较18年申请时的市场估值，高出近56%。项目地盘约4675方呎，现址为1幢8层高旧楼，并于1957年落成，楼龄约64年。

另外，荃湾灰窰角街富源工业大厦及美德大厦，目前财团向城规会申请放宽地积比，重建为1幢22层工厦，涉及约18.9万方呎。至于九龙塘牡丹路10号全幢豪宅，目前业主申请放宽高度限制，由原先最高限制10.67米，放宽至13.97米，并以兴建一幢楼高3层的物业，涉及楼面约1.24万方呎。

(星岛日报)

Hong Kong’s developers score a hat trick with city’s biggest home sales weekend this year, as stock market boom lifts sentiments

MTR and Nan Fung sold 140 of the 179 flats of LP10 at Lohas Park as of 3:30pm, agents said

Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) and Empire Group Holdings sold 200 of the 281 flats of Skypoint Royale at Tuen Mun in the New Territories as of 4:00pm, with 14 buyers bidding for every available unit

Hong Kong’s homebuyers returned to the market, snapping up 83 per cent of the 460 new flats put on sale at two locations in the city’s biggest property sales weekend this year.

The city’s subway operator MTR and its real estate partner Nan Fung Group sold 142 of the 179 flats on offer at the third batch of their LP10 project at Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O as at 8:00pm, scoring a hat trick over three successful weekends of sales.

Over at Tuen Mun in the New Territories, Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) and Empire Group Holdings found buyers for 241 of the 281 flats of Skypoint Royale when sales ended at 8.30pm, with 14 buyers bidding for every available unit, agents said.

The strong sales at the two locations marked the return of Hong Kong’s property bull market, as investors and owner-occupiers alike took advantage of discounted prices and cheap mortgages to pick up assets, confident that the coronavirus pandemic may soon come under control. Sentiments were also lifted by a booming stock market, topped off by Kuaishou Technology’s trading debut that gave investors a threefold windfall on the first day.

“After a whole year of turbulence, people realise that Hong Kong’s home prices may correct but will not slump,” agent said. “With vaccines rolling out soon, the macro environment is expected to bottom out. Thus people with real demand for a home decided not to wait any more.”

LP10, the 10th phase of a massive development at Lohas Park, comprises 893 flats in total. The 179 apartments on offer were priced at HK$16,372 per square foot on average after discounts, a 1 per cent increase from last weekend’s sell-out launch. The smallest flat, measuring 513 square feet (47.6 square metres), was listed with a starting price of HK$7.7 million.

“Sales have been brisk since late January, with enthusiastic reaction among home seekers,” another agent said. “The strong sales have also given developers the confidence to put more flats on the market.”

Skypoint Royale is the third phase of a six-block project called The Royale in Tuen Mun. A total of 557 units are available in the two Skypoint blocks, with each floor hosting between 18 and 27 units.

The homes on the offer this weekend comprise studio apartments and one-bedroom units from 208 square feet to 361 square feet, with a starting price of HK$2.99 million (US$385,686) for the smallest unit.

Encouraged by the strong sales result, Skypoint’s developers said they would put more flats on the market next week, raising the catalogue price by 5 per cent.

Elsewhere in Kwun Tong, 132 apartments of the Grand Central Phase 2 project will go on sale on Monday, said the developer Sino Land.

“There could be an explosive increase in home prices of up to 10 per cent in the first half if the Covid-19 outbreak in the city eases by the middle of the second quarter,” agent said, adding that prices may rise by 1 per cent in February, faster than January’s 0.3 per cent increase.

Some 2,000 new flats are expected to be sold in February, a further increase from 1,500 in January and 583 in December.

The strong sales of new homes have put a floor under home prices, ending in a 0.02 per cent increase in 2020 that defied the city’s 6.1 per cent economic contraction. Hong Kong’s unemployment rate rose to a 16-year high in the quarter ended December, with 250,000 people out of work while the prolonged fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic combined with the city’s worst recession on record.

The economic malaise is likely to compel the local monetary authority to keep the fiscal and financial taps on to bolster the economy, which will further attract money to seek shelter in fixed assets.