1. Market View of Bangkok Condo
The events in Bangkok in May 2010 have raised concerns about the recovery we were
seeing in many sectors of the Thai property market in the first quarter of 2010.
However, it will take months to see what the effect will be on sales and letting volumes,
prices and rents. We do not believe there will be a sudden a dramatic downward movement
in prices or rents.
The total supply of expatriate standard apartments in downtown Bangkok increased 2.3%
year on year. Occupancy was 88.2%. Rents rose in some locations such as Central Lumpini
but fell in other locations.
Despite the increase in the Bangkok hotel supply, Bangkok occupancy rates and REVPAR
increased but the Average daily rate decreased in quarter 1. International Tourist Arrivals
increased by 27.1% on Q1 2010. Obviously Q2 numbers will be very poor and it remains to
be seen how long it will take for business and tourist arrivals to recover.
The majority of new condominium launches in the first quarter were mainly small one
bedroom units.
The office market remained weak. There was no increase in supply. Take up grew by 17,481
square metres. Grade A CBD rents fell by 3.8% year on year.
Retail Occupancy increased to 93.4%. Rents remained at similar levels. A number of
shopping centres were closed in Central Bangkok for much of April and May.
882 Rai (349 acres) of SILPs were sold on industrial parks and estates in Q1 2010. This was
an increase 891% y-o-y.
There was 175% increase in townhouse completions on quarter on quarter but developer
built single detatched house completions fell by 74% quarter on quarter.
Condominium
The existing supply in downtown Bangkok reached 67,176 units, up from 65,067 units in
Q1 2010. This was an increase of 3.2% Q-o-Q and 15.8% Y-o-Y. There were 2,109 units
completed in this quarter. Another 5,220 units are scheduled to be completed by the end of
2010 which will raise the total downtown condominium stock significantly to 72,396 units,
or by 11.3 % Y-o-Y.
In Q1 2010, the average asking price for an off-plan freehold condominium unit (high-end
and above) in downtown Bangkok was 156,460 THB/m2 an increase of 19.2% Q-o-Q or 3.0
Y-o-Y.
The total number of units occupied by owners or tenants decreased from 74.2 in Q4 2009 to
74.0% in this quarter.
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