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Unit of Tsao family’s IMC Group pays S$24 million for office floor in Orchard area

The price works out to S$3,790 psf based on strata area of 6,329 sq ft; several shophouses are also changing hands

Kalpana Rashiwala
Published Fri, Aug 18, 2023 · 05:00 AM
    • The 12-storey Nomu, off Orchard Road, was developed by Sin Heng Chan on the former Cathay Apartments site.
    • This corner shophouse pair in Ann Siang Road is being sold to a Singapore entity owned by a Switzerland-incorporated company.
    • One of the two shophouses serving as HSBC's Serangoon Garden branch is changing hands at S$13.5 million.
    • The 12-storey Nomu, off Orchard Road, was developed by Sin Heng Chan on the former Cathay Apartments site. PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS
    • This corner shophouse pair in Ann Siang Road is being sold to a Singapore entity owned by a Switzerland-incorporated company. PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS
    • One of the two shophouses serving as HSBC's Serangoon Garden branch is changing hands at S$13.5 million. PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS

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    AN office floor at the freehold Nomu in Handy Road is being sold for nearly S$24 million; this works out to S$3,790 per square foot on a strata area of 6,329 sq ft.

    The buyer is a Singapore-incorporated entity that is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Bermuda-incorporated IMC Group Holdings. IMC are the initials for International Maritime Carriers, a shipping business founded by the late Frank Tsao in Hongkong in 1966. Tsao also led a consortium comprising Hongkong tycoons that developed the Suntec City complex in Singapore.

    The IMC Group unit is buying the third level of the 12-storey Nomu, off Orchard Road, from a company owned by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, the founders of Woha Architects.

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