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Rents in the region fell at a faster clip in Q2 2023, maintaining a year-long downward trend as Knight Frank’s Asia-Pacific Prime Office Rental Index dipped by a fourth consecutive quarter, down 1.6% quarter-on-quarter, in Q2 2023. This brings annual decline to 3.1%, which were largely due to continued soft conditions in the Chinese Mainland.

15 out of the 23 tracked cities reported stable-to-increasing rents, down from 16 in Q1 2023. Vacancies also rose marginally by a quarter of a percentage point quarter-on-quarter to 13.8%, sustaining a trend that has seen the metric rise to its highest in over 10 years since Q4 2022.

However, seen in the context of a delivery of over 4 million sf during the quarter, office demand in Asia-Pacific has held up better than those in US and Europe, with a stronger return-to-office trend. With tech occupiers continuing to rationalise employee headcount, financial and professional services firm as well as flexible space operators have made up the slack in leasing activity. Demand was also supported by a flight-to-quality trend that has pervaded across the region.

With the region entering a development phase, new supply in 2023-24 will clock in at cyclical highs, near doubling the levels in 2022, which will add close to 10% to existing stock. Consequently, market conditions across most of the region will continue to favour tenants for the rest of the year.

本報告原刊登於 https://apac.knightfrank.com/office-highlights

• A worldwide shortage of available power is inhibiting growth of the global data center market. Sourcing enough power is a top priority of data center operators across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Certain secondary markets with robust power supplies stand to attract more data center operators.
• New development is occurring across all four regions despite limited power availability. Northern Virginia remains the world’s largest data center market with 2,132 megawatts (MW) of total inventory.
• Despite new development, vacancy rates are declining in all four regions due to strong demand. Singapore—the world’s most power-constrained data center market—has less than 4 MW of available capacity and a record-low vacancy rate of less than 2%.
• Large corporations are finding it increasingly difficult to find enough data center capacity. Low supply, construction delays and power challenges are impacting all markets. For example, Querétaro, Mexico, has only 1.2 MW available for lease.
• The worldwide shortage of available supply is leading to price increases for data center capacity. Singapore has the highest rental rates at $300 to $450 per month for a 250- to 500-kilowatt (kW) requirement, while Chicago has the lowest at $115 to $125.
• The rapid growth of artificial intelligence—along with other modern technologies, such as streaming, gaming and self-driving cars—is expected to drive continued strong data center demand. This will spur innovations in data center design and technology as operators aim to deliver the capacity that meets the increased power density requirements of high-performance computing.

本報告原刊登於 https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/global-data-center-trends-2023

On 4 July 2023, the Lease Agreements for Retail Premises Bill (“Bill”) had its first reading in Parliament. The Bill seeks to make it mandatory for retail lease contracts to comply with the Code of Conduct for Leasing of Retail Premises in Singapore (“Code“).

The Code was issued by the Fair Tenancy Pro Tem Committee in 2021 and was last updated in 2022. It sets out guidelines and principles for landlords and tenants of qualifying retail premises to enable fair and balanced lease negotiations. The full Code is available 這裡.

The Bill serves the following functions:

• Establishes the Fair Tenancy Industry Committee;
• Provides for the Code and the obligations of landlords and tenants in relation to the leasing principles contained therein; and
• Establishes a dispute resolution process in relation to complaints of non-compliance with the leasing principles or obligations.

The introduction of the Bill follows a public consultation on the proposed legislation held by the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 18 July 2022 to 5 August 2022.

While adoption of the Code has thus far been voluntary, the Bill – when passed – will require compliance with the Code’s leasing principles. Landlords and tenants of retail premises should thus be aware of their obligations under the Code to ensure compliance.

This Update highlights the key features of the framework set out under the Bill and the Code.