Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Oversupply of retail and office space


Capital values for residential units would see some increases in 2012, but at slower rates compared with the past 18 months.

“Asking rents at most top buildings in the city centre are within the RM6 to RM10 per sq ft per month range, with only a few select buildings, such as Petronas Tower 2 and Maxis Tower, achieving monthly rents of RM10 per sq ft and above,” said the report.

Boyd said recent average transaction prices of Grade A office space generally range between RM800 and RM900 per sq ft. “But there are higher prices than these being achieved in the market. We have recently seen prices of RM1,100 sq ft or more in Kuala Lumpur Sentral and SP Setia Bhd's KL Eco City.”

Soo estimated that by 2014, the Klang Valley will have 53 million sq ft of retail space in 149 malls and hypermarkets.

However, Soo pointed out that only about 43 shopping centres and hypermarkets out of the existing 133 (or 30%) were performing well.


http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/1/business/9811668&sec=business

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