The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has just released a West Coast Vale residential site with a tender closing date of Feb 9 next year, on the back of positive response from 14 developers for a Margaret Drive site.
While property analysts are more prudent with their predictions of response from developers for this site, they are nevertheless expecting 5 to 10 bids. It’s location is perhaps not as ideal as the previously released Margaret Drive and Martin Place sites, but this 99-year leasehold, 16,378 sq m site is situated near the Jurong Lake District and its many amenities such as office and commercial spaces and also shopping malls such as Westgate and Jem.
A recently launched project nearby is the 752-unit Parc Riviera condominium. Sales for this development has been muted thus far with 130 units sold at around $1,175 psf, but analysts are still expecting a winning bid of between $222.1 million to $246.8 million for this new West Coast Vale site. There are speculations that EL Development might go for the bid in order to manage pricing of new homes in the area.
On the private front, the Serangoon Road site on which the National Aerated Water Company sits has also been sold to Malaysia-listed developer Selangor Dredging for $47 million. Unknown to some, the National Aerated Water Company used to distribute popular nostalgic soda pops such as Sinalco and Kickapoo Joy Juice and this site used to house its bottling factory up to the 1990s when operations ceased. As the new owner is planning to convert this industrial site into a residential one which could potentially yield 117 apartment units, there is an additional fee of $22.66 million involved in the transaction. This could very well be a worthy investment as the site is close to the Potong Pasir MRT station and upcoming Bidadari HDB estate, in the increasingly popular city-fringe district 12.
