SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) – List Sotheby’s International Realty (List SIR) announced that a full floor plate at Springleaf Tower is up for sale at $27.2 million. The 9,870 sq ft prime office space is on a high floor at the 21st floor with an obstructed sea view.
Image credit: List SIR – The full floor plate at the skyscraper may be bought in personal name
The full floor plate at the skyscraper is located at the central business district
Springleaf Tower is a 37-storey, 165 m (541 ft) office and residential skyscraper located in the central business district of Singapore located on 3 Anson Road and near Prince Edward Road, The development is in the zone of Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar near other skyscrapers, such as 8 Shenton Way, MAS Building, International Plaza, and Anson Centre, all of which are roughly 100 metres away. It is a Grade A office building.
Springleaf Tower was completed in 2002. Firms involved in the development include CapitaLand Commercial Limited, CapitaLand Limited, Benson Global, and DTZ Debenham Tie Leung (South East Asia) Private Limited.
However, the Springleaf Tower’s construction was not smooth. In the late 1990s, the developer of the building, a subsidiary of the now-defunct Ban Hin Leong Group, ran into financial problems. It was unable to pay its contractors for the completion of the 37-storey building. This led to the UOB Case.
The Ban Hin Leong Group suggested that one of the contractors, Yongnam Holdings, purchase a floor and that it set off the value of its work against the sale price of the floor. It was agreed to by United Overseas Bank (UOB), who was the mortgagee.
However, after Yongnam completed the work, UOB refused to release its mortgage. UOB said that it did not encourage or endorse the barter arrangement and later foreclosed on the building. Yongnam then sued UOB to protect its interest. UOB subsequently lost the case and was asked to cede ownership of the floor to Yongnam.
Twelve floors in Springleaf Tower in which the full floor plate for sale are located were sold in January 2007 for S$134 million and were bought by Macquarie Global Property Advisors.
Just a few months later, in October 2007, the same twelve floors were sold again, at $225 million. This equates an increase of almost 70 per cent. It was bought by SEB Asset Management, part of German pension fund manager SEB.
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