Sunday, 19 August 2012

Cecil Street

PROPERTY DETAILS

135 Cecil Street is a 13 storey premium grade office tower.   Extensively refurbished in 2007, the building has a net lettable area of approximately 81,500sqft with a typical floor plate of approximately 6,500sqft per floor.

Located in the Central Business District, 135 Cecil Street is within 

minutes’ walk to both Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar MRT stations.  It has car parking facilities in the building and is easily accessible to shops, food amenities, clinics, banks and major expressways.


PERTINENT DATA

Tenure                 Freehold
GFA Area             Approx. 100,900sqft
Nett Lett Area       83,076 sqft
Site Area              8,011sqft
Car Park               Building has 31 car park lots in its 3 basement levels
Plot Ratio             11.2 plot ratio indicated for the site under Master Plan 2008. It is zoned for commercial use. 
Typical floor plate  Approx 6500sqft
Floor to Ceiling Ht  Approx 2.75m
Floor System        Raised Flooring
Floor Loading        Approx 4kn/sqm
Aircon System      Central VRF system

Rental                     
Building is approx. 90% occupied.  Average monthly passing rent is approx. $7 to $8psf.  The latest large lease renewal was sealed in July 2011 when tenant State Bank of India which occupies the ground floor and UOB was achieved at approx. $8.23psf.

Remarks                
Unsolicited offers have come in for approx. $2200psf which the owner has declined.


Pricing
Recently mid 2011 two floors of Samsung Hub were sold at $2550psf.
Now another two floors are available for purchase at asking price of $3000psf. Likely price owner will consider is $2800psf.
Therefore based on net lettable area of 83,076sqft the consideration will be:
@ $3000psf approximately $249m
@ $2800psf approximately $191m

In general, yield for Cecil Street would be approximately in the range of 2-3% 
whilst that of Samsung Hub & Suntec approximately 3-4%.