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Asian Cities Report
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TABLE 1                                                                                      Investment sales market                     new launch units. A replay of the
Top government land and private sales,                                                       overview                                    2014-15 situation is likely and, for
                                                                                             In Singapore, real estate investment in     2H/2018, we expect transactions in
Q2/2018                                                                                                                                  the residential collective sales market
                                                                                             Q2/2018 continued to grow strongly,
           Type of
                     Date of
                              Successful
                                          Transaction              Name of successful        recording S$10.53 billion in sales. This    to shrink significantly. The S$9.84
Location development         tender price
                     award                   type                      tenderer                                                          billion achieved in the collective sales
           allowed             (S$ mil)                                                      was 4.7% higher than the S$10.06
                                                                  Stirling Land Holdings     billion recorded in Q1/2018.                market for 1H/2018 is unlikely to be
                                                                   Pte Ltd, Stirling View
Holland           Commercial &
                                                                  Pte Ltd (as Trustee of                                                 repeated. While some smaller sites
                                  May   1,213.3     GLS         Commons SR Trust) and
Road               Residential
                                                                 Stirling Property Pte Ltd   Investment sales from the public            may still be sold, the total achieved for
                                                                (as Trustee of Commons                                                   2H/2018 may well be just a fraction of
                                                                    Commercial Trust)        sector amounted to S$2.92 billion
                                                                       UOL Venture           in Q2, up 81.6% quarter-on-                 the 1H number, perhaps even below
Silat
                   Residential    May   1,035.3     GLS
                                                                   Investments Pte Ltd,
                                                                  UIC Homes Pte Ltd and      quarter (QoQ) from the S$1.61               S$1 billion.
Avenue
                                                                  Kheng Leong Company        billion transacted in Q1. Under the
                                                                     (Private) Limited
Tulip                                             Collective      MCL Land and Yanlord       Government Land Sales (GLS)                 The next hot sector
                   Residential    Apr   906.9
Garden                                              sales             Land Group             programme, a total of seven sites           Given the volume of money in the
Twenty
Anson
                  Commercial      Jun   516.0      Private                AWE                (including three residential sites, three   global system in search of investible
Dunearn                                           Collective                                 industrial sites and one commercial         assets, investor attention may turn
                   Residential    Apr   468.0                        EL Development
Gardens                                             sales
                                                                                             & residential site) were awarded for        towards the industrial and commercial
                                                                                             development in Q2.                          sectors, where regulations on the
Source: URA, Savills Research & Consultancy
                                                                                                                                         purchase and sale of properties are
                                                                                             By contrast, the volume of                  not as onerous as those applied to the
                                                                                             transactions in the private sector          residential sector. We shall look at one
                                                                                             fell by 10.0% QoQ to S$7.61 billion         of the two major real estate sectors
GRAPH 1
                                                                                             in Q2/2018. Investment sales of             (industrial and office) that may stand to
Investment sales transaction values, Q1/2012                                                                                             benefit from the policy measures that
                                                                                             commercial, industrial and mixed-
– Q2/2018                                                                                    use properties showed substantial           stymie transactions in the residential
                                                                                             increases from the prior quarter,           sector, namely strata-titled industrial
                                                     Public sector      Private sector
             16                                                                              although this was offset by the decline     units.
             14                                                                              in the residential segment as more
                                                                                             smaller-sized collective sale deals         Industrial – For individual investors,
             12
                                                                                             were completed in Q2.                       strata-titled industrial space is
             10                                                                                                                          increasingly looking attractive again.
S$ billion

              8                                                                              Market intervention on 6                    Although there are measures like the
              6
                                                                                             July 2018                                   Seller’s Stamp Duty (SSD), which has
                                                                                             For the first half of 2018, the feverish    been in place since 12 January 2013,
              4
                                                                                             collective sales market for residential     compared to the residential sector’s
              2                                                                              development alone accounted                 ABSD, industrial is not a deadweight
              0                                                                              for 48% of the bulk of investment           monetary loss from the start.
                                                                                             sales volume. However, the revised          Therefore, in relative terms, investing
                                                                                             Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty               in strata-titled industrial properties
                                                                                             (ABSD) implemented on 6 July 2018           now looks unfettered for potential
Source: Savills Research & Consultancy                                                                                                   buyers.
                                                                                             is expected to put a dampener
                                                                                             on the number of collective sales
                                                                                             transactions in the coming six months.      However, from the grouses of small
                                                                                             As developers now face a 5% non-            and medium-sized enterprises
GRAPH 2                                                                                                                                  here, some may ask whether
                                                                                             remittable ABSD charge for the land
Investment sales transaction volumes by                                                      they purchase, they are unlikely to         industrial properties are good for
property type, Q2/2018                                                                       take that loss, instead transferring the    investment. Their concerns may
                                                                                             charge to vendors through a haircut         arise out of the fact that, despite
                                                                                             on their reserve price. This could          the improvement in manufacturing
                                                                                             result in a drying up of collective sales   performance in recent quarters, rents
                                                  Commercial                                 transactions.                               for factory and warehouse space
                                                   S$1.57 bil
                                                    14.9%                                                                                have been languishing. Also, some
                                                                                             With buyers of second properties            may wonder how can strata-titled
                                                          Industrial                         now being hit by a punitive extra           industrial properties benefit from
                    Residential                           S$0.67 bil
                     S$6.82 bil                             6.3%                             5% ABSD, developers believe it will         the government’s emphasis on new
                      64.8%                                                                  be more difficult for them to sell out      value-added and productive-growth
                                                      Mixed                                  large projects within five years of the     markets? How does the shift in focus
                                                     S$1.47 bil
                                                      14.0%                                  award of the land. The revised 25%          towards the Precision Engineering,
                                                                                             ABSD levied on developers who fail          Electronics and Energy & Chemicals
                                                                                             to complete sales of new units within       ITM sector, which fuels demand for
                                                                                             five years is thus likely to present an     high-tech and business park spaces,
                                                                                             obstacle to large collective sales sites    positively affect the demand for
Source: Savills Research & Consultancy                                                       that could yield well over a thousand       traditional B1 and B2 strata space?

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2H 2018

Well, if one were to focus purely on        formation of F&B businesses and the        GRAPH 3
the up and downstream linkages              corresponding allocation of increased
                                                                                       Large food companies and their adoption of
to the newfangled 4.0 industries,           space, both from existing and new
then there isn’t that much benefit.         malls, will have a positive correlative    CKs
However, there is one sub-segment           effect on the demand for CKs.
of the industrial space market that
is thriving and is still related to the     Rents and prices                                            24%

government’s productivity push. That        These depend on location and the                                                                        Yes, CK is a standalone
is space related to the food industries,    tenure of the property. Rents in
                                                                                                                                                    Yes, CK is at the outlet
particularly Central Kitchens.              established food zones, like those in
                                                                                                                                                    No, food is prepared at
                                            the MacPherson and Pandan Loop                        4%                                                the outlet
What is a Central Kitchen?                  areas, range from S$2.70 to S$3.50                    2%
                                                                                                                                                    No, food is prepared at
                                                                                                                                                    another location
A Central Kitchen (CK) is a focal point     per sq ft while those in the North
where food is prepared and semi or          (Woodlands, Senoko) are in the S$2.50                                                    68%

fully cooked before delivery to outlets     plus range. Price wise, freehold CKs
of a dedicated Food & Beverage              located in the central part of Singapore
(F&B) entity or a multitude of F&B          e.g. MacPherson area can see prices
customers. The CK is located either         above S$1,250 per sq ft while those
in an outlet of an F&B establishment        in Mandai, being on 30-year leases,
                                                                                       Source: Singapore Productivity Centre
or in an industrial property. The focus     range from S$370 per sq ft to close
here is on CKs located in industrial        to S$500 per sq ft. For new food
properties, which we believe is the         factories sited on 60-year leases, we
next hot industrial sub-sector.             expect prices to be around S$950 per
                                                                                       GRAPH 4
                                            sq ft if located in the established food
Have CKs been widely adopted? In a          zones in Jurong e.g. Pandan Loop.          Cumulative net F&B and manufacturing
survey conducted by the Singapore           Graph 5 shows the major food-zone          business formed since Jan 2013
Productivity Centre of 50 large food        clusters in Singapore.
                                                                                                                      Food & Beverage service activities    Manufacturing
services companies here, the majority                                                       14,000
(68%) responded that their CKs are          Conclusion
                                                                                            12,000
already standalone facilities (please       In summary, quite a few factors are
refer to Graph 3). In other words,          driving the demand for CKs. These               10,000

the market for CKs is already an            are:                                                8,000
                                                                                       Number

established feature.
                                            1. The overall labour crunch that F&B               6,000

With retail rents stuck in high gear        establishments face.                                4,000

and a crunch on foreign labour hires
                                                                                                2,000
still in force, F&B establishments have     2. Tightly-controlled food zones with
been and will continue to optimize          proliferation constrained by planning                  0
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their space requirements in malls. This     controls.
translates to greater demand for CKs.
                                            3. High rents at malls forcing F&B
Also, with the growth of F&B setups         operators to minimize food preparation     Source: Singapore Department of Statistics, Savills Research & Consultancy

in recent years, retail mall landlords,     areas.
realizing the challenging times faced
by traditional retailers, are undergoing    4. Parallel increase of space
further Asset Enhancement Initiatives       dedicated to F&B outlets in retail         GRAPH 5
(AEI) for their existing malls to improve   malls.                                     Major industrial use type clusters and food
mechanical systems and floor layouts                                                   zones in Singapore
to accommodate higher F&B content.          5. Economies of scale for small F&B
                                            establishments who can farm out
The statistics on the cumulative net        certain food preparation functions to a
business formation numbers for F&B          general CK.
outlets show strong growth since 2013.
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, in June      6. Sharp rise in F&B net new
2018, the number of F&B businesses          business formations.
formed since (stressed) 2013 had
increased 25%. Graph 4 shows very           7. Government push for greater
clearly that since January 2013, the        productivity in the F&B trade.
F&B sector witnessed much stronger
growth in net new business formation
than the manufacturing sector.

Although many F&B outlets lack the
scale to set up a CK, the increasing                                                   Source: Savills Research & Consultancy

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