SingHaiyi eyeing more distressed US property
HONG KONG-listed Heng Fai Enterprises may have guided SingHaiyi, previously a struggling interior fit-out firm, into Singapore's property development scene in 2006 and helped its market cap to grow hundred-fold to about $400 million in the immediate years that followed, but Heng Fai's exit last year also left it in the lurch, saddled with a portfolio of residential projects amid government measures to quell property speculation.
Although three of its four projects have sold well, sales at one - the 56-unit freehold CosmoLoft in Balestier - have been slow with only 10 per cent sold. This led SingHaiyi to record an impairment of $10.5 million for FY2014 after the company comp…
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