需求弱甲廈租金料反覆向下

疫情下散業權甲廈業主漸減價放租，惟需求仍下跌，料租金中短綫仍反覆向下。

據代理十大商廈成交資料顯示，3月份商廈交投持續淡靜，十大商廈僅錄2宗買賣。兩宗買賣成交呎價偏低，金鐘力寶中心2座低層07至10室，以約8,390萬成交，以樓面面積約3,648平方呎計，呎價約2.3萬，低市價近2成，亦重回2017年水平，據悉，原業主為投資者羅守輝，去年10月以7,296萬購入上址，故持貨僅約半年，帳面獲利1,094萬，物業升值約15%。

星光行呎價 3年新低

另一宗買賣為尖沙咀星光行高層，面積約894平方呎，以約876萬元易手，成交呎價約9,800元，為該廈近三年新低。

整體商廈租務氣氛一般，該代理數據指出，3月份統計6個港島核心商業區包括金鐘、銅鑼灣、中環、上環、灣仔及黃竹坑，當中除了黃竹坑外，全部甲級商廈空置率都錄得按月升幅，幅度約0.03至0.64個百分點不等。銅鑼灣由2月約6.42%，急速升至最新約7.06%；灣仔區空置率升幅則緊隨其後，單月增加0.3個百分點，至約6.97%；而上月已突破6%的金鐘區亦持續上升，增加0.03個百分點至約6.15%。

力寶中心呎租48元 低叫價3成

代理表示，隨着疫情擴散，環球營商氣氛轉差，不少機構停止擴充，近期亦有個別商戶，因經營困難，向商廈業主提出減租，個別獲業主同意，租金已有所回調。

該代理指，最近指標商廈租務成交上，租金已有回調，如力寶中心一個低層單位，面積逾3,000平方呎，業主去年中放盤時，每呎叫租約70元，其後一直減價，直至最近以每呎48元租出，減幅達3成，另上環信德中心單位中低層，業主去年以每呎72元招租，近日亦減價逾3成，至約48元租出，反映租金正在調整。

後市預測上，該代理分析，甲廈業主持貨力強，放售時不願大幅降價，寧把單位放租，按目前租務需求向下，業主願減價招租，故相信疫情尚未過去，租務需求仍疲弱，料中短期內甲廈租金反覆向下。

(經濟日報)

HK residential rents continue to slide

Rents in Pak Shek Kok are under downward pressure, as the monthly rent of a 1,348-square-foot flat at Providence Bay only costs HK$26,000 or HK$19.3 per sq ft, according to a property agency.

In Tai Po, a 258-sq-ft flat at Solaria was leased for HK$9,000 per month or HK$ 34.9 per sq ft, while in Sha Tin, a two-bedroom flat at City One Shatin was rented for HK$9,800 per month, or HK$32.2 per sq ft, after HK$1,200 was cut from the original asking rent.

Meanwhile, Michael Chan Yue-kwong, former chairman of Cafe de Coral (0341), bought a luxury house at Jade Grove in Tuen Mun for HK$31.88 million from Chinachem Group as a first-time homebuyer.

OCBC Wing Hang Bank expects Hong Kong's property price will fall by 15 percent year-on-year in 2020, with the local economy estimated to shrink 2.1 percent from the year before.

In the commercial property market, a property consultancy expects Grade A office rents to fall by 14 percent year-on-year in 2020.
At the same time, another property agency expects Grade A office buildings to see both rents and selling prices dwindle by 15-20 percent this year.

Rents of Grade A office buildings fell 4.5 percent month-on-month in March, the largest monthly decline since February 2009, agent said.

Meanwhile, another property agency only recorded 48 transactions of industrial, commercial properties and shops in the first half of April, down by around 47 percent month-on-month, with the total consideration falling by around 77 percent to HK$661 million.

(The Standard)