Industrial rents up 1.5% in 2Q2022, charting seventh consecutive quarter of growth
Industrial prices also rose, expanding 1.5% q-o-q in 2Q2022 but alleviating from the 3.1% q-o-q surge documented the previous quarter. Meanwhile, commercial tenancy costs inched up from 89.8% in 1Q2022 to 90% in 2Q2022.
For factories, multiple-user factories saw the highest quarterly and also yearly development in 2Q2022 at 2.1% as well as 3.7% respectively. “This could be credited to the thriving demand for high-specification multi-user factories, as inhabitants try to find office quality commercial areas near the city edge,” marks Catherine He, head of research, Singapore at Colliers.
Industrial rentals increased 1.5% q-o-q in 2Q2022, up from the 1% q-o-q growth recorded the previous quarter, according to data released by JTC on July 28. This notes the seventh consecutive quarter of development as well as the fastest quarterly development since 3Q2013. On a y-o-y basis, leas expanded 3.4% at the time of the 2nd quarter.
The growth in industrial cost as well as rental indices was upheld by making output expansions in electronics and also precision engineering, along with resistant demand for semiconductors, mentions Leonard Tay, head of study at Knight Frank Singapore.
Colliers’ He, on the other hand, highlights that new supply will come onstream at a standard total amount of around 1.2 million sqm each year from today till 2025, consisting of 1.6 million sqm to be carried out this year. This surpasses the 0.7 million sqm annual standard over the past three years, indicating that supply is likely to reach request and solidify the speed of rental as well as price progress, she says.
Nevertheless, He keeps in mind that lasting need for industrial area will still be driven by tailwinds such as Singapore’s enhancing concentrate on high-value manufacturing as well as biomedical sectors. Colliers is forecasting commercial rentals to grow in between 2% to 4% this year, while industrial costs are projected to expand between 5% to 7%.
Stockrooms charted the greatest efficiency among all the commercial sub-segments, registering a rental rise of 2.1% q-o-q and also 5.7% y-o-y respectively in 2Q2022. Throughout the quarter, storehouse occupancies increased to 90.9%, up from 90.3% in 1Q2022.
To that end, the commercial property market is anticipated to benefit from the tight supply. “Preventing any type of sharp downturn in the international market, need for industrialized area in 2022 is expected to be thriving and tenancy should be fairly stable,” Song adds.
Looking forward, Tricia Song, CBRE head of research study, Singapore as well as Southeast Asia, notices that commercial pipeline remains “exceptionally thin”, with multi-factory pipe anticipated to taper down from 2023 while most of stockroom supply up until 2023 is already totally pre-committed.
He includes that rising problems connecting to food stability and also access to basic materials as well as necessities motivated significant stockpiling activity, which added to more powerful demand for stockrooms. “The enhancing Singapore bill provided support to stockpiling, mitigating escalation in rates as rising cost of living becomes significantly substantial,” he remarks.
