中環中心全層作價7億 星展銀行連約承租
「磁帶大王」陳秉志早前一口氣沽出中環中心2全層，其中66樓全層已於土地註冊處登記，新買家為該廈大業主之一星展銀行（DBS），作價7億，平均呎價近2.6萬。
平均呎價近2.6萬
中環中心66樓全層以7億易手，賣方THE CENTER (66) LTD，登記買家DBS BANK (HONG KONG) LTD，作價7億，儘管中環中心早於落成時，每層單位由公司持有，方便日後買賣公司，然而，星展銀行並沒有選擇買入公司，而是直接購入物業。
該全層建築面積約26967方呎，平均呎價25958元。現時該物業由Regus香港辦公室空間租用。
「磁帶大王」陳秉志沽貨
據了解，陳秉志持有的75樓，早前連同66樓一併沽出，買家亦是星展銀行，惟暫時未見登記。星展銀行DBS目前持有該廈9層全層樓面，連同新買入的66樓全層，合共持10層樓面。
陳秉志在2017年11月，夥拍多位投資者以402億購入中環中心75%業權，並獲分7層樓面，以當年購入價平均每呎3.3萬計算，現時66樓全層以呎價近2.6萬沽出，跌幅逾21%。
(星島日報)
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京東斥15億購沙田利豐中心全幢
電子商務巨企之一的京東集團，旗下京東智能產發 (JDP) 完成收購沙田利豐中心全幢，京東表示，該項交易能為香港提供可靠有效率的物流服務，在溫和利息環境下更令集團長期受益。市場消息指，該全幢作價約15億，平均呎價約3078元。
本報早於今年6月14日報道，沙田利豐中心全幢將由用家以15億承接，該買家身份昨日曝光，京東網頁指，旗下京東智能產發有限公司 (JINGDONG Property，Inc. 簡稱JDP)，已完成收購沙田利豐中心全幢。
曹東：有利拓展集團業務
京東首席執行官曹東表示，對收購該項物流基施感到滿意，反映團隊在整合資源及完成交易方面極具效率，此舉將有利拓展集團業務。
京東智能產發亞洲區主管Richard Law更指，該項目得以令京東為香港提供更可靠有效率的物流服務，在利率持續溫和的年代，該項投資令集團長期獲益不少，集團將繼續積極在亞太區尋找機遇。
今年暫最大宗工廈買賣
據了解，早於6月中，買賣雙方已握手達成初步協議，物業將以15億易手，其時並通知大廈租客覓新址搬遷，由於該宗為大買賣，過去三個月，買方忙於盡職審查，雙方忙於跟進細節，最終在近期完成交易，亦是今年暫錄最大宗的工業物業買賣。
京東未有透露購入價，市場消息指作價15億，以該全幢面積48.73萬方呎計算，平均呎價約3078元，若以全幢物流中心而言，呎價甚為低廉，雖然如此，原業主仍然獲利可觀，原業主為La Salle Investment Management Inc. 旗下客戶籌組的基金，早於2004年4月以約近2.685億向利豐集團購入該全幢，帳面獲利12.315億，物業升值逾4.5倍。
該全幢由單一租客Maersk承租，是一個總部設於丹麥哥本哈根、世界知名的跨國企業，以運輸及能源作為主要的業務核心，也是世界上最大的貨櫃船運經營者及貨櫃船供應商，早於2004年當該項目易手時，簽下14年長約，租期直至2018年，Maersk早前忙於為搬遷覓新址。
平均呎價3078元
業內人士指，利豐中心屬於今年以來最大宗工業物業買賣，而且買家來自內地，顯示在逆市下，實力巨企趁勢購物業自用，志在服務香港市場，對本地投下了信心一票，別具意義。
在利率持續溫和的年代，該項投資令集團長期獲益不少。
(星島日報)
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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