Property Hunter Magazine Property Hunter Magazine Issue 51 - February 2014 | Page 56

/// International Property News INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY NEWS Catch up on the latest property and real estate news, views and analysis from across the globe featured New Airport Terminal by 2017 Tycoon, Offering HK$500m to Future Son in Law market with Parkview serviced apartments in Kuala Lumpur, which was developed jointly with Mayland Bhd. Artist’s impression of Changi Airport’s Terminal 4, which will be ready in 2017 Changi Airport’s Terminal 4 ,which will be ready in 2017, will cost S$985 million (RM2.5 billion). “The work being undertaken by Takenaka Corporation includes buil­ ing a new passenger facility to d handle up to 16 million travellers a year and other related works,” Chan­ i g Airport Group said. T4 will have parking room for 17 narrow-body aircraft and four big planes. The parking stands will come with aerobridges for travellers to move from the terminal straight to the aircraft. If space runs out, travellers will be ferried by bus to the parking area across Airport Boulevard Road. 56 www.PropertyHunter.com.my A new multi-storey carpark and another open-air car park will cater for up to 1,500 vehicles. There will also be a double-storey holding area for taxis waiting to pick up arriving passengers. To improve access to and from the new terminal, a new road will be built to funnel traffic direct­y l from T4 to the East Coast Parkway. A new bridge across Airport Boulevard Road will enable buses and other airside vehicles to move from T4 to new aircraft stands being constructed at a land plot near T3. According to Changi Airport Group, Takenaka Corporation also built Changi’s T1 and upgraded T2. It was one of five firms that had bid for the project. Known unofficially as Cecil Chao Centre, the 1.8 acre (0.728ha) freehold project will now comprise four towers of luxury residences instead of serviced apartments, offices and a hotel as planned previously. Playboy property magnate Cecil In 2009, Kuala Lumpur City Hall Chao of Cheuk Nang (Holdings) Ltd granted development approval for three 50-storey blocks and Playboy property magnate Cecil a 36-storey block of luxury Chao of Cheuk Nang (Holdings) residences with a total of 879 Ltd — better known for his units. audacious HK$500 million (RM211.51 million) “prize” that Units in the three 50-storey awaits the man who wins his blocks will range from 600 sq ft lesbian daughter’s heart — is to 2,300 sq ft , with preliminary back in town for business and prices at RM1,500 psf. pleasure. He recently attended the Miss Tourism International The first phase, comprising two pageant in Putrajaya, while 50-storey towers, is scheduled attending meetings for a luxury to be launched in June, while residential project in the heart the third tower will be launched of the capital. about six months later. The project comes eight years after he began his foray into Malaysia’s real estate