西环皇后洒店录取消交易

疫情重创工商铺市场，观望气氛挥之不去，酒店物业市场亦受压。西环皇后大道西199号皇后酒店全幢，原于上月以3.1亿作交，惟有关交易已告吹，料买家损失约3100万。

料没收3100万订金

知情人士透露，上述项目买家已挞订离场、料买家损失约10%订金，以成交价计涉资约3100万。本报向负责该项目的代理查询，该公司回应，皇后酒店全幢早前原以3.1亿易手，惟昨日获原业主通知，该项目重新放售。

刚重新放售

据土地註册处资料，上述项目原先买家以公司名义登记，为万通控股有限公司(GRAND FORTUNE OVERSEAS HOLDING LIMITED)、为海外註册公司。该项目前身为写字楼，楼高23层，后来改作酒店，设有40个房间。

(星岛日报)

万科等37亿夺大埔马窝路地 高次标1%

万科香港伙拍青建国际 (01240)上月底以37亿元夺大埔马窝路住宅地，地政总署公布餘下入标价，市场竞争激烈，中标价只是较第二口标价高出约1%，首三份书入标价的差距少于5%。

该地皮位于大埔新峰花园的西北面，佔地约24.34万平方呎，指定作私人住宅用途，最高可建楼面约78.1万平方呎，接获13份标书，由万科香港伙拍青建国际以37.05亿元夺得，每呎楼面地价约4,738元，符合市场预期。

据地政总署公布其餘标书入标价，其中次高的标书入标价36.6亿元，万科财团只是险胜1%或4,500万元，而最高价的首3份标书均高于35亿元，差距少于5%。

入标的13份标书入标价介乎15.64亿至37.05亿元，每呎楼面地价介乎2,000元至4,738元不等，当中有6份入标价高于30亿元，而中位数为26.15亿元，相当于每呎楼面地价约3,344元，较中标价低3成左右。

日后开售呎价约13961元

至于最低入标价只是15.64亿元，每呎楼面地价仅2,000元，较中标价低58%，不过仍然高于2016年中国海外 (00688) 以21.3亿元投得同区山塘路地皮(现建成为天钻)。

市场估计，以万科等的中标价加上建筑成本等总投资额料达80亿元，日后落成开售实用呎价约13,961元。

根据万科香港表示，中标价钱合理，地皮环境优美，将计划在地皮兴建中低密度住宅，预计单位逾1,000伙。

(经济日报)

Seacoast Royale extends brisk sale for a fourth weekend as Hong Kong buyers snap up homes amid low rates and easing Covid-19

As many as 29 of the 52 units of Seacoast Royale in Tuen Mun found buyers by 5:30pm in the fourth round of sales on Saturday

The property project saw price increases by as much as 17 per cent following the successful previous three batches of launches

The Seacoast Royale apartment complex in Tuen Mun extended its brisk sales for the fourth weekend, as decreasing cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong spurred more homebuyers to venture out of lockdown to take advantage of low borrowing rates amid a flood of liquidity.

Buyers snapped up 29 of the 52 flats, or 55 per cent of the day’s offerings by 5:30pm during the weekend sale, according to sales agents. Another 24 flats in the batch are being put up for tender until October 5.

“It is selling well, with a total of 600 units sold out [in the four rounds of the sales],” agent. “That reflects good real demand.”

The successful sale at Seacoast Royale, developed by Empire Group Holdings and Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings), is a sigh of relief for Hong Kong’s developers, who are bracing for challenging times as a glut of residential property enters the city’s worst economic recession in decades.

Marketed by Henderson Land Developments, Seacoast Royale reported three consecutive sell-out weekends, with as many as 46 people submitting bids for every available unit on August 1, as investors sought to park their money in the world’s most expensive property market amid access to easy money that was released by global central bank to combat the economic damage of the coronavirus epidemic.

Hong Kong’s easing of social-distancing rules enticed investors back to the weekend property launches, as the daily new infection cases constantly drop in recent weeks. Starting Friday, dine-in services at restaurants have been extended to 9pm from 6pm, cinemas and beauty parlours have been allowed to reopen and wearing a mask for outdoor exercise is not mandatory any more.

Strong response prompted the developers to raise their prices at Seacoast Royale, the biggest being a 17 per cent increase on a studio flat measuring 290 square feet (27 square metres), priced at HK$4.93 million (US$636,637).

The price increase reflected the slight uptick in Hong Kong’s home-price index, which rose 0.1 per cent in July, taking the gauge to its highest level in 10 months, according to the Rating and Valuation Department.

While last year’s anti-government protests and the outbreak of Covid-19 this year have plunged the economy of the former British colony into a recession, disruption of construction activities has strained supply of new houses and supported prices. Supply of new private residential flats will probably be reduced by between 3,000 and 92,000 unit in the following three to four years, according to the projection by the Transport and Housing Bureau.

Still, the gain slowed from a 2.2 per cent increase in May. Some agents were bearish on the property market because of the persistence of the pandemic. Home prices would probably fall by as much as 1 per cent in July and the decline would widen to more than 2 per cent this month, according to property agent.