Kalpana Rashiwala

Kalpana Rashiwala

SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

Kalpana Rashiwala is a senior correspondent with The Business Times. She covers the Singapore property market including investment sales transactions, the office market, shophouses, and the landed residential and luxury condo sectors, among others. She has been with The Business Times for over 20 years. 

Properties on sites approaching lease expiry could be repurposed to alternative interim uses, ranging from sports and recreation to logistics and urban farming – and even much-needed senior housing and assisted-living facilities.
BRUNCH

Seeing gold in decaying leases: Yield, unlocked potential draw property investors to likes of Hotel Miramar

It can be financially feasible to buy properties on sites with declining balance land tenures. As leases near expiry, the path to...

Quayside Isle enjoys stable daily patronage from affluent residents in Sentosa Cove.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

CDL inks deal to sell Quayside Isle @ Sentosa Cove for S$97.3 million

The buyer is understood to be an entity owned by Patrick Kho

The Clementi Mall is on a site with a 99-year leasehold tenure that began on Aug 31, 2010.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Elegant Group entity buys The Clementi Mall for S$809 million

The price works out to about S$4,100 psf on net lettable area; the net yield is 4.1%

Artist impression of the Coastal Cabana executive condominium project.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Preview starts for Coastal Cabana executive condo project next to Downtown East

Prices of three-bedders start from S$1.438 million for a 872 sq ft unit, reflecting S$1,649 psf

Sime Darby Business Centre at 315 Alexandra Road could be up for sale at S$55 million.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Premium Automobiles teeing up to buy Sime Darby Business Centre for S$55 million

Former Audi dealer, which now distributes China EV brands, signs put-and-call option for acquisition of Alexandra Road showroom building

Coronation Shopping Plaza
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

NTUC Enterprise’s Mercatus said to have put 11 retail assets up for sale at S$307 million guide price

Portfolio divided into four bundles; sale will be with existing long-term tenancies to NTUC FairPrice supermarket chain

The site can generate about 340 private homes.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Plum Newton site garners 8 bids, topped by HH Investment at S$566.29 million or S$1,820 psf ppr

The top bid is higher than the S$1,300 to S$1,600 psf ppr predicted by analysts polled by The Business Times

krpark - House in Dalvey Road

Source: BT READER
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Dalvey Road GCB sells for S$61 million, Victoria Park bungalow fetches nearly S$52 million

Price paid by philanthropist for Dalvey Road property reflects S$4,045 psf on freehold land area of 15,081 sq ft

The 147,350 sq ft plot can yield about 745 private homes.
SINGAPORE PROPERTY

Kingsford places top bid of S$918.3 million or S$1,326 psf ppr for first condo plot on former Keppel Club site

Plot draws just two other bids; big quantum seen to have kept some bidders away

Aravest CEO Moses Song (left) with Wee Hur Property CEO Goh Chengyu.

Aravest, Wee Hur complete S$160 million purchase of former Hotel Miramar Singapore

Price works out to S$465,100 per room; property to be rebranded DoubleTree by Hilton after renovation