GuocoLand set to launch its new luxury condo at Martin Place, the Martin Modern condominium development on July 22 – the first great-scale presentation in the Robertson Quay district in eight years. Read more on Martin Modern Review here.
The prestigious location at the corner of River Valley Close and Martin Place, which will produce 450 apartments, was one of the extremely contested land conspiracies last year.
The units will be out in phases. Rating has not yet been settled nevertheless prices will start as of $1.8 million for the lowest apartments, which are consist of two-bedrooms. Marketing agents assume pricing to be about $2,300 per sqft (psf).
The neighboring 302-unit Martin Place Residences has had a typical managed price of $1,969 psf over the past year as stated by ZACD Group. Regular prices for Martin 38 were around $2,305 psf then, $1,949 psf for the 545-unit Rivergate. The fabulous Starlight Suites, accomplished in 2014, has be more or less $1,812 psf in the previous 12 months.
Mr. Nicholas Mak, head of consultancy and research at ZACD Group, measures Guocoland’s breakeven amount will be over $1,900 psf. The stiff raised eyebrows when it compensated $1,239 psf per plan ratio for the spot last year.
Mr. Mak said: “You have got to give acclaim to them. What few developers would probably do is to cut out several small shoe-box units to restrain a complex psf amount, but they didn’t.”
Martin Modern’s two classic 30-storey towers will consist of 450 apartments.
These will embrace 150 units of 2 bedrooms at 764 square feet each, 90 three-bedroom units, 90 units of two- bedrooms plus a study, and 60 premium three-bedrooms.
The biggest units will be the 60 four-bedrooms, extending from 1,701 square feet to 1,798 square feet.
The managing director of GuocoLand Group, Cheng Hsing Yao assumes half the purchasers to be owner-residents, and the companion investors.
Martin Modern, will be completed by 2022 and has a 99 years leasehold tenure. Also, it would be a short walk from the Great World MRT Station proceeding Thomson-East Coast Line, which will be completed by 2021.
In addition, this is also close to Jiak Kim Street land plot that is used to house nightclub Zouk, which is currently on the Government’s Reserved List as it could produce 525 housing units.
“If sales of Martin Modern be a success, there’s a leeway some developers perhaps trigger that frail,” Mr. Mak said.
