HONGKONG LAND HOLDINGS LIMITED
H78.SI
Hongkong Land (HKL SP - Riding on sweet office upcycle
- Central office portfolio vacancy remained low at 2.4% at end-March with positive rental reversion sustained.
- Mildly negative rental reversion for Singapore office portfolio.
- Maintain BUY with TP of US$8.51. Expected encouraging tender result for the Murray Road car park building site to serve as key share price catalyst.
What’s New
- Benefitting from ongoing tight market supply, the vacancy of Hongkong Land's Central office portfolio stayed low at 2.4% in March 2017 (December 2016: 2.2%).
- Positive reversionary growth continued to push up its average office rents which stood at HK$103psf in 2016. Retail portfolio remained fully occupied as of March 2017. But base rent reversions, which was largely positive in 2016, has turned neutral as expected.
- The Singapore office portfolio registered mildly negative rental reversions due to supply glut. On a positive note, portfolio vacancy remained low at 0.3% in March 2017.
- Continued sales at the Sol Acres and Lake Grande project has been progressing satisfactorily. The substantially-sold Lakeville project was completed in 1Q17. It is the only residential project in Singapore the company schedules to complete in 2017.
- In China, Hongkong Land recorded attributable contracted sales of US$287m, up 48% y-o-y but down 36% q-o-q.
- In the past three months, Hongkong Land’s share price appreciated 14% amid the improving office market in Central. Meanwhile, the stock is trading 32% below our assessed current NAV. Valuation is by no means expensive from an historical viewpoint.
- The tender of the Murray Road car park building site will close on 12 May. We expect this tender to draw tremendous interest from developers as well as China-based financial institutions. Any encouraging tender results could prompt a revaluation of office assets in Central and re-rating of office landlords with heavy exposure there.
- We believe that Hongkong Land could trade up to US$8.51, 30% discount to our December 2017 NAV estimate.
- BUY.
Jeff YAU CFA
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Ian CHUI
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2017-05-04
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