Singapore office rents fall in 3Q2023 on weaker demand: JLL
Tay Huey Ying, JLL Singapore’s head of research as well as consultancy, concords, putting in that office rental modification ended up being extra widespread this past quarter. “Our evaluation reveals that greater than 15 properties commanded reduced leas in 3Q2023 than in 2Q2023, which dragged down the standard hires for CBD Level A space for the very first time ever since they shifted in 2Q2021.”
He associates the reduced rents to more supply from office space supply being gone back to sale “at a raising speed” as even more tenants right-size upon rental renewal to manage costs.
JLL’s research study shows that gross effective rental for Grade An office in the CBD dropped 0.3% q-o-q to around $11.29 psf each month in 3Q2023, down from $11.32 psf each month in 2Q2023.
Beyond the short-term headwinds, the medium-term outlook for Singapore’s Level A CBD office space renting out market stays bright, JLL believes. Demand will be sustained by Singapore’s growing credibility as an international center, while the supply of workplace in the CBD will certainly remain constricted by a scarcity of greenfield locations together with URA’s focus on injecting even more live and play places downtown.
She expects descending strain on workplace rental fees to escalate, with leas fixing even more in the coming months in the middle of the existing macroeconomic setting and also incoming workplace supply. “Against the backdrop of an influx of coming undertakings competing for a limited pool of tenants, the temporary overrun of office space can end up being a lot more obvious,” she adds.
Singapore office space rents decreased in 3Q2023, according to data disclosed by JLL in a Sept 25 announcement. The consultancy adds in that it observes the first quarterly downturn following nine continuous quarters of office space rental development in the city-state.
The decline originates from continuous economic pressures, says Andrew Tangye, head of workplace leasing as well as advisory for JLL Singapore. “The unsure near-term outlook originating from a mixture of slowing down financial development, geopolitical stress and increasing prices have actually remained to keep tenants wary and even cost-conscious, resulting in weaker office space take-up,” he includes.
Three office projects are set up for finalization in the CBD over the following 24 months– IOI Central Boulevard Towers (1.3 million sq ft) and also Keppel South Central (0.6 million sq ft) in 2024, and the redeveloped Shaw Tower (0.4 million sq ft) in early 2025. JLL states that to date, over 1.5 million sq ft is predicted to be still uninvolved.
