Monday, 2 October 2017

Empire City land: why the huge difference?

Article from The Edge: Empire City Damansara 2 land up for sale

One snippet:


.... it appears that these plots are the parcels purchased by Mammoth Empire in 2010 and 2011. Records showed that in 2010, Mammoth Empire had bought a 41-acre site and a 16.83-acre site on Jalan PJU8/8 from Saujana Triangle Sdn Bhd.

Saujana Triangle is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MK Land Holdings Bhd. Both parcels were purchased for an estimated RM130 million. The price of the larger parcel was an estimated RM55 per sq ft, and the smaller one at RM40 per sq ft.


In 2011, Foster Estate purchased another parcel of land along Jalan PJS 8/8. This 6.33-acre parcel was purchased from Crest Builder Sdn Bhd, a unit of Crest Builder Holdings Bhd, at RM57.53 million or RM208 per sq ft.



RM 40 per sq ft versus RM 208 per sq ft, why is the land bought from Crest at a price 5.2 times as high as the land bought from MK Land, roughly at the same time?

The difference looks extreme, minority shareholders of MK Land should query their company if the land was sold too cheap.

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