美資基金租國際金融中心全層擴充 料呎租100

近期港股上升，外資金融機構亦在港進行擴充，消息指，美資對冲基金，近日租用國際金融中心單位作擴充，呎租料約100元。

市場人士指，中環國際金融中心二期錄得全層租務成交，涉及物業中高層全層，面積約2.39萬平方呎，以每平方呎約100元租出。消息稱，新租客為大型美資對冲基金Millennium Management，現時管理數百億美元資產。

該機構總部設於紐約，集團於英國倫敦、日本東京及新加坡均設有據點，早年集團租用中環中國農業銀行大廈單位，2019年提升級數，轉租國際金融中心二期中層半層樓面，呎租約170元。市場消息稱，該機構一直有意擴充，如今趁租金回調，租用中高層全層作擴充。

中高層高峰期 呎租逾180元

按租金計算，所屬樓層亦屬項目中高層，高峰期呎租高達180元以上，故目前現有4成回調。事實上，近期內地出招救市，立即帶動股市交投暢旺，港股亦顯著上升，相信不少金融機構有見商機出現，即擴充在港業務，預計核心區甲廈租務有望向好。近一個月中環超甲廈不乏租務成交，中環交易廣場三座錄得全層租務成交，涉及中高層全層，面積約1.1萬平方呎，成交呎租料約100元，新租客為內地金融機構微眾銀行 (WeBank)，首度來港設立總部。

(經濟日報)

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鄧成波家族工廈銀主盤 4800萬沽

鄧成波家族旗下土瓜灣聯明興工廈逾萬呎單位，早前淪銀主盤，現以4,800萬元沽出。

消息指，土瓜灣木廠街36號聯明興工廠大廈錄得買賣，涉及物業2樓3單位，面積約12,450平方呎，連同3樓一單位，面積約4,150平方呎，涉及物業總面積約16,600平方呎，以約4,800萬元成交，呎價約2,892元。

翻查資料，該批單位原由鄧成波家族持有，由於該物業位處市區，波叔早年積極收購該工廈，包括曾購入地廠及樓上多層單位。近年家族已先後沽售該廈單位，包括去年以2,100萬元，沽出聯明興工廠大廈地廠部分。較早前，同廈11樓亦淪銀主盤，並以3,500萬元沽出。是次涉及兩低層單位，同淪為銀主盤，近日亦沽出。

樓上舖租務上，尖沙咀厚福街8號H8中層全層，面積約2,188平方呎，以每月約10萬元租出，呎租約46元。

另商廈買賣方面，億京續沽售項目餘貨，新蒲崗萬迪廣場低層L室，面積約1,995平方呎，以1,422萬元成交，呎價約7,128元。

(經濟日報)

觀塘兩工廈申重建酒店 提供448個客房

近年不少工廈申請重建發展，由財團持有的觀塘同得仕大廈及兆富工廠大廈，去年向城規會申請重建商廈及數據中心，最新變陣申建一幢34層高酒店，以提供448個酒店房間，涉及總樓面約29萬方呎。

項目地盤面積約2萬方呎，申請放寬20%地積比率，由12倍增加至14.4倍發展，而建築物高度限制由主水平基準以上100米，放寬至120米，即增加20%，以興建一幢樓高34層，包括各1層地庫及防火層的酒店，並提供448個酒店房間，涉及可建總樓面約29萬方呎。

涉總樓面29萬方呎

申請人指，擬議發展地盤在過去已經得到規劃許可，可以略為放寬其發展密度，以重建現有工廈；該項目曾於去年申請重建為一幢26層高數據中心及商業大廈，惟其後撤回申請。

(星島日報)

Homebuyers swarm Hong Kong’s biggest sales launch in 6 months after relaxed lending rules

Buyers snapped up more than 300 of 504 new flats across Blue Coast II in Wong Chuk Hang and Cullinan Sky in Kai Tak on Saturday

Homebuyers swarmed property show rooms in Wong Chuk Hang and Kai Tak on Saturday, snapping up most of the 504 flats on offer in Hong Kong’s biggest sales launch in six months after the monetary authority relaxed the city’s mortgage financing rules.

CK Asset Holdings and MTR Corporation sold 188 of the 256 flats at their Blue Coast II project in Wong Chuk Hang as of 5.30pm, according to sales agents, after receiving 8,000 bids for the units on offer. Sun Hung Kai Properties found buyers for 152 of the 248 apartments at Cullinan Sky Phase 2, after receiving refundable deposits from 30,000 buyers for its project at the city’s former airport site in Kai Tak.

The turnout, buoyed by an upbeat stock market, falling mortgage rates and a more relaxed financing limit, is a confidence booster for Hong Kong’s beleaguered property market as it struggles with a supply glut.

“The two projects are expected to be sold out,” a property agent said. “[They are] benefiting from the new interest rate cut cycle, bullish stock market, as well as a slew of supporting measures announced by the Hong Kong government.”

In Wong Chuk Hang, where Hong Kong’s iconic Ocean Park is located, one buyer splurged HK$66.6 million (US$8.6 million) for three of Blue Coast’s three-bedroom flats and a two-room unit, the agent said, without identifying the customer.

Blue Coast, comprising a total of 1,200 homes in two phases, is one of the biggest residential property launches in 2024. It is selling 151 two-bedroom units and 105 three-room apartments in its current launch, offering them at between HK$9.21 million and HK$18.91 million after discounts, or between HK$18,998 and HK$24,458 per square foot.

The number of customers buying for investments has risen, as rental yield has increased after the US Federal Reserve initiated its rate-cut cycle, which Hong Kong’s monetary authority follows in lockstep. About 70 per cent of Blue Coast’s buyers are owner-occupiers, the agent said.

In Kai Tak, 33 of the apartments at Cullinan Sky Phase 2 are for sale by tender. The project is selling 236-sq ft (22 square meters) studios, and apartments that range from one-bedroom flats to three-room units that measure 692 sq ft. Prices range between HK$5.09 million and HK$18.9 million after discounts, or HK$17,054 to HK$27,561 per square foot. As many as 142 buyers are chasing after every available unit.

“Investors account for about 40 per cent of buyers,” because the rental yield is expected to rise to 4 per cent, on the back of rent at HK$70 per square foot, another agent said.

The prices of some 60 units at the project were up 3 to 8 per cent, reflecting rising sentiment after Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu unveiled in his policy address that Hong Kong would allow buyers of both residential and non-residential properties to finance a greater amount of the purchase price than they could previously.

The new measures enable homebuyers to finance as much as 70 per cent of a home’s purchase price, regardless of value or the intended use, according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). The debt-servicing ratio has been raised to 50 per cent from 40 per cent, standardising the level for both residential and non-residential properties.

Homes valued at more than HK$30 million will be entitled to the 70 per cent financing, compared with 50 to 60 per cent previously, the HKMA said.

The new-home market has seen 1,500 transactions so far this month, which is expected to reach 2,000 deals on Saturday, a seven-month high and 170 per cent more than last month, the first agent said.