内地广发银行租中环交易广场全层
中环甲级写字楼租金出现调整，中环交易广场全层，获内地广发银行承租，为近月较罕有中资租用楼面，呎租约140元，较高峰期时下跌约15%。
市场消息指出，中环交易广场1期12楼全层，面积约1.3万平方呎，获广发银行承租，属近月较少出现中资租用本港超甲级商厦。
资料显示，广发银行于1988年成立，总部设于广州，主要业务包括一般银行服务、信用卡等，于内地设70多间分行。据了解，该集团于香港设有办公室，惟楼面面积较细，如今扩充业务，租用全层楼面。
中区超甲厦租金按月跌3%
消息人士表示，是次成交呎租约140元。据悉，该厦为中环指标商厦之一，去年高峰期呎租高见160至170元，如今租金回调约15%。
需求转弱下，甲厦租金明显有调整。有代理12月公布每月商厦租金走势，其中港岛各区租金普遍向下，而中区跌幅明显扩大，中环超甲厦最新每呎租金为162.7元，按月跌3.3%，而区内整体跌幅达1.9%。按年比较，最优质甲厦呎租累跌17.8%。至于湾仔区跌1.2%，幅度相对轻微。相比之下，九龙区租金变幅较小，东九龙按月无升跌，而尖沙咀亦仅跌0.3%。
代理资料显示，由于下半年受本地社会事件影响，机构转为审慎，整体商厦空置率有所回升，而中环区最为明显。中环商厦连续多月录得负吸纳量，11月空置率更升至逾4年高位，达到3.5%，去年全年呎租跌约5%，而超甲厦呎租跌幅更大。
观塘海滨汇全层5.2万呎租出
此外，非核心区租务相对较活跃，市场消息称，领展（00823） 旗下观塘商厦项目海滨汇，录得全层租务成交，涉及物业11楼，楼面面积约5.2万平方呎，每平方呎租金约30元。项目楼高23层，去年入伙，出租面积近90万平方呎，据悉出租率逾7成。
据了解，是次承租全层为宏利保险，该集团总部正比邻海滨汇，早年购入全幢并命名为宏利大厦，相信是次租用海滨汇全层，作扩充业务。事实上，该集团早于十年前，已把主要业务迁往东九龙，租用观塘道223号宏利金融中心多层至今。
(经济日报)
New home buyers stay on sidelines ahead of lunar new year
Hong Kong's property market stuttered over the final weekend in the run up to the Chinese New Year, with home buyers giving a lukewarm reception to the latest batch of flats on offer in Sham Shui Po, though secondary transactions at ten major housing estates hit a three-month high.
A property agency reported 12 secondary transactions at ten major real estates over the weekend, up by 20 percent week-on-week, the highest in the past 12 weeks.
However, the property agency expects the number of secondary transactions to fall 5 percent month-on-month to 2,200 this month, hitting a four-month low.
In the primary market, CK Asset (1113) sold 30 out of 178 units at Seaside Sonata in Sham Shui Po on Saturday. This came in stark contrast to the previous two weekends, when home buyers piled into Wetland Seasons Park, the first new project in Tin Shui Wai in a decade. The project provides 876 flats, 75 percent of which are two-bedroom units, ranging in size from 474 to 507 sq ft. The rest are three-bedroom units, measuring between 695 and 786 sq ft.
Besides, home owners are continuing to offer price cuts in the rental market to woo tenants. A 390-sq-ft flat in Amoy Gardens at Kowloon Bay was leased for HK$12,000 per month, or HK$31 per sq ft, after HK$4,000 was cut from the original asking rent.
In the commercial market, another property agency said shop transactions slumped 33.4 percent to 1,121 last year, the lowest since 1996. Prices and rents of shops in core areas are likely to plummet by 10-15 percent this year, due to a sharp drop in inbound tourists from the mainland and social unrest.
(The Standard)
