Is the GCB market starting to heat up?
The luxury landed property market had been in a lull after the multi-billion dollar money laundering scandal involving several GCBs and luxury condos.
It is reported that Ms Ma Liqian, wife of Mr Forrest Li, had entered into an option to buy a Good Class Bungalow (GCB) in Gallop Road for S$42.5 million. The house sits on a 1,552 sqm plot of land.
Mr Li, the founder and chief executive of Sea Limited, owns a 1,403 sq m land parcel next to the mansion, near the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which is a World Heritage Site. This was acquired in 2019, property records show.
The sale, by a family surnamed Ku, adds to a handful of transactions recently. This includes a $36 million sale in Cornwall Gardens and a separate mansion in Ford Avenue being bought for $39.5 million by a scion of the Wee family, Singapore’s richest banking dynasty.
China-born Mr Li’s fortune is primarily derived from his stake in Sea, South-east Asia’s largest internet company, which owns online shopping platform Shopee and video game developer and publisher Garena.
His wealth took a dive during a recent tech downturn, but recovered slightly after his company recorded its first full-year profit since listing.
Once Singapore’s richest person, Mr Li now has a net worth of US$3.8 billion (S$5.18 billion), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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