Low Keng Huat (Singapore)

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LKH will be a more exciting privatisation candidate than LKT. By 2015/16 assuming LKH cannot find new development projects, it will be sitting on a mountain of $ and with RNAV sitting well above $1.00, LKH may just follow former M'sian parent, General Corp's delisting experience.

However, in the short term, LKH's Duxton in Perth may have dampeners via declining room rates, occupancy and S$/A$ translations:

Perth hotel developments hit as miners vacate

BY:LISA ALLEN From: The Australian July 04, 2013 12:00AM
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The development of at least $600 million worth of new hotel rooms in Perth could be in jeopardy. Picture: Richard Polden Source: PerthNow
THE development of at least $600 million worth of new hotel rooms in Perth could be in jeopardy as the city's accommodation sector caves in to the softening mining sector.

Hotel occupancies and room rates are also slumping in Brisbane, where developers were planning to add thousands of rooms to the city's skyline.

Perth's hotel room rates and occupancies slumped up to 25 per cent in the past two months, according to a key hotelier, sending would-be hotel investors, planning to cash in on $600-a-night room rates once enjoyed mid-week, running for cover. Property investor John Bond recently paid $88.5m for the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle because he was cautious about the Perth CBD hotel market.

"I guess it's the slump in the mining sector, certainly the economy has slowed down in Perth and Western Australia," said Mr Bond, director of national wholesale property syndicator Primewest. "We chose to invest in Fremantle because we foresaw there was likely to be pressure on hotel rates in Perth."

Perth-based hotel analyst Alan Boys said market conditions had clearly deteriorated.

He doubted if all 2000 of Perth's mooted new hotel rooms, on top of the city's existing 9000 rooms, would proceed.

"There is significant discussion about the number of new hotels coming into Perth," Mr Boys told The Australian.

"We are clearly seeing corporate softening. The hard rock mining, gold and junior explorers are getting whacked. The hotel market certainly peaked in 2011-2012."

Mr Boys, head of the Dubois Group, said he expected investors would pull out because the change in market conditions had been reasonably significant. "Anyone looking at building must be concerned. The medium-term outlook is problematic," he said.

Mr Boys said Perth's hotel rooms were still full Tuesday and Wednesday nights but the rest of the week struggled. On the weekends, hotels were all but empty.

"The leisure market is very soft, there's a lack of inbound and also a lack of demand from locals," he said.

Hotel analyst Dean Dransfield said it was not just Perth that had been affected by the slowing corporate travel market. "In places like Port Hedland occupancieshave dropped more than 25 per cent, while room rates have dropped even more," said Mr Dransfield, of Dransfield Hotels & Resorts.

"Brisbane has had a soft few months.

"That's not just miningthat's also the Queensland government putting a freeze on things.

"(But) Perth is much more strongly correlated to mining's fortunes."

Despite the slump in rates, Starwood's director of acquisitions and development, Andrew Taylor, said the company would plough on with its plans for a new Perth hotel.

"Starwood is still aggressively looking to increase our representation in Perth as a key market because it's lacking in mid-scale and five-star accommodation offerings," Mr Taylor said.

"(But) we always knew there was a correction going to happen in the market. Revenue per available room (the standard industry measure) growing by double digits was not sustainable.

"There has been softening in that demand, that means competition for high paying guests is a bit tougher and people have had to reduce rates."

Hotel analyst Rutger Smits said Perth was a promising market because it had not seen (any) new supply.

"If someone comes in with a good product and good location (it will do well.)"

Mr Smits noted Perth had several significant hotel projects on its books, starting with Elizabeth Quay on the waterfront, the FESA house site which Starwood is looking at, and Crown's plans for a large hotel project.

But if all those developments go ahead Perth would see a situation of softening demand, a recipe for lower occupancy and pressure on room rates.

"The first projects will go ahead (but) the investors in the projects in the later stages will probably get cold feed," Mr Smits said.

"As always if there are 100 rooms in the pipeline, you will see 30-40 rooms succeeding and the others will not eventuate."

Meanwhile, Tourism Western Australia continues to spruik Perth's attractiveness to hotel investors.

Hotel occupancies are expected to keep increasing and will reach 86.3 per cent by the year ending December 2015, according to the West Australian government.

"Room rates are also expected to continue to grow strongly, increasing at an average rate of 9.3 per cent per annum over the next three years," the group said.

The government yesterday called for expressions of interest from developers to run a premium hotel in the centre of Karratha.

On the site of the former aquatic centre, the hotel will front on to the town's main street, Sharpe Avenue.

HOTELS: The InterContinental Hotels Group is believed to have won preferred operator status for Lend Lease's twin tower 900-room hotel complex at Sydney's Darling Harbour.

Lend Lease confirmed it has been in discussions with IHG as well as a number of operators to manage the hotel complex, which is expected to include two luxury hotels such as a Crowne Plaza or an InterContinental as well as a lower-rated hotel.

Construction of the two hotels is expected to start late next year as part of a revamp of the Darling Harbour precinct, including the development of Australia's largest convention centre under an agreement with the NSW government.

Lend Lease has strongly denied IHG has been selected as the preferred operator.

"Lend Lease has consulted a number of leading operators about the new ICC hotel (International Convention Centre), including IHG," said Lend Lease project director, Gavin Biles in a statement to The Australian.

"Lend Lease will proceed to lodge the development application and the hotel will then be developed and constructed by Lend Lease, with construction starting late next year. At this stage we have not appointed a hotel operator.

"Lend Lease is not in exclusive discussions with anyone regarding the ICC hotel," he added.

However, several sources yesterday insisted that IHG has been involved in the hotel's design and held intellectual property rights over the plans, which are before the NSW government.

"Lend Lease is hoping that IHG and the end buyer will come together," said the source, adding that Lend Lease has so far been unable to find a buyer.

IHG declined to comment.

Meanwhile, the NSW government agreed contracts yesterday for the delivery of the temporary Sydney Harbour Exhibition site at Glebe Island after the failure of the first deal.
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http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/20130718...eID=248256

New property venture for LKH

Googled Newfort Alliance (Moulmein) ended up with Newfort Realty:

Moulmein quite close to Mount Elizabeth, wondering if GG climbing up right tree?

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(13-06-2013, 04:42 PM)Jacmar Wrote: For LKH the "kateks" are active in this counter. I know because they borrowed my shares to short. If it drops much further I am going in to pick some. Lets put a short squeeze on them. For LKH we can look forward to 5c for FY13/14 and their earning will only peak in FY14/15 according to the CEO. So we can look forward to at least 10c in total for next 2 years as their projects are essentially all sold.

pls do your own research.

Are the kateks still active on this counter? now only 66cents.

What price should we start the short squeeze?
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I am surprised that LKH didn't go up and instead has gone down by 1 cent. Didn't the govt announced freeing up Paya Lebar airbase. LKH has PL Sq and will keep a lot of the retail units for recurring income.
PL will be buzzing with activity and retail rental will be strong.
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With PLAB moving out, Paya Lebar seems to be next engine growth. Will Low Keng Huat be anywhere involved?

1. Building of T4 and T5: Any chance of snagging any contracts (if i'm not wrong, they build the T3 hotel);
2. Paya Lebar Square: As and when another town is constructed out of PLAB, will Paya Lebar Square's value soar even more?
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(19-08-2013, 02:50 PM)guru Wrote: With PLAB moving out, Paya Lebar seems to be next engine growth. Will Low Keng Huat be anywhere involved?

1. Building of T4 and T5: Any chance of snagging any contracts (if i'm not wrong, they build the T3 hotel);

LKH do not like to bid for these kind of public projects(also mrt stns etc) as they said margins are very poor and very high risk. they prefer to build commercial projects like hotels and malls. even for condos they prefer to build only their own projects and not for others.

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What does short squeeze means?
(19-08-2013, 12:59 PM)BlueKelah Wrote:
(13-06-2013, 04:42 PM)Jacmar Wrote: For LKH the "kateks" are active in this counter. I know because they borrowed my shares to short. If it drops much further I am going in to pick some. Lets put a short squeeze on them. For LKH we can look forward to 5c for FY13/14 and their earning will only peak in FY14/15 according to the CEO. So we can look forward to at least 10c in total for next 2 years as their projects are essentially all sold.

pls do your own research.

Are the kateks still active on this counter? now only 66cents.

What price should we start the short squeeze?
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(21-08-2013, 02:05 PM)guru Wrote: What does short squeeze means?
(19-08-2013, 12:59 PM)BlueKelah Wrote: Are the kateks still active on this counter? now only 66cents.

What price should we start the short squeeze?

Eh, you are the "guru" and how come you don't know what's short squeeze. use the power of the internet and google to find out.

well, not sure if the kateks are still active but the last time they short it down to about 64 cents. they still have some of my shares. so if we don't let them go to 64 cents, then they cannot exit without a loss.
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LKH do share buyback or announce privatise its shares, Kateks will loss money.
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2nd Quarter/1H Results
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