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We believe the outlook for Singapore’s industrial sector will remain soft in the immediate term and will only start to
bottom out from end-2017 on the back of abating supply risk. Rental rates are expected to edge down by 5% in 2017
and bottom out in 2017. Demand for space has lagged supply growth over the past few years as firms consolidate or
downsize their space requirements to save costs. Vacancy rates are expected to remain on an uptrend, reaching 11%
and bottoming out only from 2019.
Manufacturing sector expanded in 2017. Singapore’s manufacturing sector has been showing signs of a rebound in
activity, with the purchasing managers’ index recording an expansion in June 2017. The electronics, precision
engineering, chemicals and biomedical, and manufacturing clusters registered an increase in output while the transport
engineering and general manufacturing clusters contracted. In addition, latest posturing from the government implies
that 2017 growth could come in at the higher end of GDP estimate of 2-3% – another positive sign.
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Demand
Net surplus of space. As of 2Q17, take-up for industrial space still lagged the increase in supply, with a net increase in
unoccupied space of close to 3.0 million square feet (sqft). The majority of this space is expected to be taken up
progressively by end-user occupiers in the coming quarters.
We believe that demand for space comes on the back of consolidation of operations to achieve operational efficiency,
which is one of the key drivers for space in the industrial sector. Hence, we expect the increased take-up in the single-
user factory space to be at the expense of higher vacancy rates emerging from existing multi-user factory space, which
some of the end-users are expected to vacate.
Supply
2017 – a year of consolidation. The industrial market is at the tail-end of a period of a spike in supply completions
starting from 2014 and peaking in 2017. As such, landlords are facing an increasingly competitive operating
environment and with the weak demand outlook on the back of a slowing economy, we expect downside risks to
occupancy rates and market rents.
Based on the latest statistics from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), a total of 4.3 million square metres (sqm)
– equivalent to 42.3 million sqft – of new industrial space is either under construction or in planning and is projected to
complete over the next four years, from 2017 to 2020. Of this, more than 75% of the space will be completed and
operational by the end of 2018.
Among industrial types, the single-user factory space will see close to 1.6 million sqm in new supply (representing a
6.6% increase), the multi-user factory space will see about 1.3 million sqm of new supply (12.3% rise), and the
warehouse space will add around 0.8 million sqm (up 8.3%). The business park space will add another 123,000 sqm.
However, most of the space is pre-committed and thus, not an issue for existing landlords.
Forecasts
Industrial sector’s overall vacancy rates to increase to 10-11% by 2017; bottoming out from 2018 onwards. Taking
into account assumed pre-commitment rates and projected new demand, and faced with an increasing supply outlook,
the average vacancy rate is now 11.3% (as of 2Q17) and we expect further weakness until the end of 2017, before it
bottoms out from 2018 onwards.
As the influx and pace of completions are skewed over 2016-2017, we believe that, on average, spot rentals are likely
to see downside to the tune of 5% in 2017, with the exception of business park space which we believe will be
resilient with around 0-3% growth.
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Net absorption remains negative but significant improvement expected from 2018F Remarks
m' sqft
10.7%
8.0 10.6%
10.3%
11.0% 1. Net absorption is
6.0 9.1% 9.4% 9.7% projected to turn
10.0%
4.0 positive in 2019F.
9.0%
2.0 8.1%
- 8.0%
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017F 2018F 2019F
(2.0)
7.0%
(4.0)
6.0%
(6.0)
(8.0) 5.0%
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Industrial Segments 2015 2016 2017F 2018F 1. Rentals for the factory
S$ psf/mth S$ psf/mth S$ psf/mth S$ psf/mth and warehouse
Factory 2.09 1.95 1.85 1.80
segments are forecast
to decline by 5% over
Warehouse 1.98 1.83 1.74 1.69
the next two years. We
Business Park 4.15 4.17 4.26 4.34
believe the warehouse
space will see the
largest declines given
% Change % Change % Change % Change supply competition.
y-o-y y-o-y y-o-y y-o-y
Factory -2% -7% -5% -3% 2. The business park
segment is expected to
Warehouse -3% -8% -5% -3% increase by 2% in 2017
to 2018, supported by a
Business Park -1% 0% 2% 2%
lack of supply
completions.
Source: JTC Corporation, Urban Redevelopment Authority, DBS Bank
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1. Supply completions to
spike in 2017-2018;
resulting in vacancy rates
increasing to more than
14%.
4.0
2.0
-
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017F 2018F 2019F
Multi-User Space Potential Shadow space from Singer-User Factory segment
1Q14
4Q14
1Q15
2Q15
3Q15
2Q16
3Q16
4Q16
1Q17
2Q14
3Q14
4Q15
1Q16
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- 88%
2017F
2018F
2011
2012
2013
2014
2016
2010
2015
2Q14
3Q14
4Q14
1Q15
3Q15
4Q15
2Q16
4Q16
1Q17
1Q14
2Q15
1Q16
3Q16
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75%
-
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017F 2018F 2019F
(0.01) 70%
Demand for Private Business Park Supply for Private Business Park Occupancy Rate (%)
8 2. Current differential is
6
above the historical
average, but the
4
softening outlook for the
2 Central Business District
0
office rents caps further
4Q04 4Q05 4Q06 4Q07 4Q08 4Q09 4Q10 4Q11 4Q12 4Q13 4Q14 4Q15 4Q16 upside.
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Appendix
Rental Indices of Industrial Space
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1Q 2010 51.9 59.9 60.9 57.3 63.4 55.5 64.9 54.5 56.4 61.9
2Q 2010 54.7 62.6 63.3 60.9 67.2 56.5 69.0 57.3 60.1 59.8
3Q 2010 59.5 67.0 64.9 65.7 68.5 60.9 69.6 60.3 64.6 63.2
4Q 2010 63.2 70.2 67.7 69.9 72.0 63.5 74.6 63.9 64.6 66.8
1Q 2011 68.7 74.4 73.0 74.6 77.5 67.7 78.6 69.5 69.8 72.9
2Q 2011 72.6 88.3 83.1 74.8 86.6 76.5 90.1 78.9 79.5 75.3
3Q 2011 77.4 91.2 85.4 79.8 87.5 82.2 89.1 81.0 86.4 80.4
4Q 2011 80.3 94.8 90.8 82.7 92.7 86.2 94.6 86.2 90.5 84.0
1Q 2012 86.1 93.1 95.4 85.5 96.3 89.2 99.3 88.1 91.0 90.2
2Q 2012 93.3 98.1 95.3 89.1 95.1 94.0 96.7 90.3 94.9 94.7
3Q 2012 102.7 102.5 97.3 94.8 97.4 97.9 98.6 94.8 99.0 96.5
4Q 2012 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1Q 2013 102.9 103.0 100.3 103.5 102.5 100.0 103.7 100.3 102.9 98.6
2Q 2013 103.5 100.3 104.5 102.7 105.5 98.5 106.3 98.7 105.4 101.2
3Q 2013 104.4 102.4 104.1 103.6 106.7 96.7 108.1 99.2 102.9 100.1
4Q 2013 103.2 105.5 104.5 101.8 105.3 99.7 105.9 97.5 107.8 102.8
1Q 2014 107.2 103.7 104.3 104.1 107.1 97.3 108.8 100.1 103.0 99.9
2Q 2014 109.9 100.6 105.3 105.6 107.8 98.3 110.8 101.0 100.5 100.0
3Q 2014 107.9 105.5 102.9 101.6 105.0 97.4 107.1 100.6 98.3 99.1
4Q 2014 107.7 108.0 103.4 99.2 105.5 95.3 106.6 100.5 98.1 99.2
1Q 2015 107.8 108.2 102.8 100.5 106.1 94.6 107.7 98.8 96.5 100.7
2Q 2015 107.4 105.6 102.0 101.3 105.2 95.0 107.2 98.5 96.1 100.0
3Q 2015 107.0 101.7 101.5 102.3 104.4 95.8 106.3 99.0 95.9 99.9
4Q 2015 105.9 97.8 101.1 101.2 104.2 92.8 106.5 97.7 92.9 97.7
1Q 2016 103.5 95.8 98.9 98.5 101..9 90.7 103.0 95.0 91.8 96.7
2Q2016 101.8 95.2 96.0 96.9 99.0 90.7 102.6 92.4 91.0 92.8
3Q 2016 100.8 93.1 96.0 96.7 97.3 90.2 102.0 91.7 89.8 92.0
4Q 2016 98.7 91.6 93.2 95.2 95.7 87.8 98.5 90.3 88.7 89.7
1Q 2017 96.9 90.6 90.6 94.0 95.2 85.1 97.2 88.2 87.4 88.0
2Q 2017 95.4 88.9 89.2 92.9 93.7 83.7 95.8 86.2 86.5 86.5
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