Widely acknowledged as the market leader for legal advice on collective sale transactions in Singapore, rely on our Real Estate Acquisition Disposition and Property Management practice to handle all your legal needs in this space.

With more than 200 collective sale projects, our team has extensive experience acting for owners, purchasers and financiers in collective sale transactions. Our services cover the entire process—from the negotiation and drafting of the collective sale agreement, to appearing before the Strata Titles Board and the High Court and the successful completion of the collective sale.

Our extensive portfolio includes some of the largest, and most complicated, projects, including the Beverly Mai, Maryland Point, Hilltops Apartments, Eastern Mansion, Flamingo Valley, Westwood Apartments, Hillcourt, Braddell Park, Parkway View and Chateau Eliza. We also represented clients in the first ever appeal to the High Court from a decision of the Strata Titles Board.

Collective sales services include:

• Collective sale agreements
• Collective sale committee (constitution and powers)
• Statutory requirements and the Land Titles (Strata) Act
• Strata Titles Board (STB) applications, hearings and procedures
• High Court Application after STB
• Tender terms and conditions of the sale and purchase agreement

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Extension of the deadline to deliver vacant possession – the Nuts and Bolts of new Part 8C of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020

June 7, 2021

Singapore: This article is an update of an earlier article published on 6 November 2020, and which incorporates the new amendments to Part 8C of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 pursuant to the new COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Amendment No. 2) Bill passed in Parliament on 5 April 2021 (Bill No. 10/2021). In sum, this new Part 8C allows both housing developers and commercial developers to extend the original deadline to deliver possession of the units to purchasers under the sale and purchase agreements to a later date, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions. As at the date of publication of this article, Part 8C has not come into operation yet.

Extension of the deadline to deliver vacant possession – the Nuts and Bolts of new Part 8C of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020

November 6, 2020

Singapore: On 3 November 2020, Parliament passed the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 (Amendment No. 3) Bill, which among other things, inserts a new Part 8C to the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 (the Act), relating to the developers’ deadline to deliver possession of units to purchasers and the liability for failure to comply with the said deadline.

Property Sale and Purchase contracts: Going digital amidst COVID-19

March 27, 2020

Singapore: As COVID-19 cases around the world continue to rise, more countries and companies are enforcing lockdown and quarantine measures. In such circumstances, there will be practical difficulties when parties are unable to physically produce, execute and witness their contracts, especially when the law requires the aforesaid legal requirements to be satisfied for certain contracts. As such, we, as the lawyers acting for developers of property, have been receiving an increasing number of requests from Purchasers to exercise their options by faxing or emailing to us their signed contracts, as they are unable to return the physical signed contracts before the exercise deadline. What exactly is a party to a property transaction to do in this current situation? Are electronic exchanges of and electronic signatures on contracts for the sale and purchase of immovable property (SPAs) acceptable?

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Dentons Rodyk represents Sim Lian Group in the project sales of Singapore's largest residential condominium development and collective sales acquisition

May 2, 2019

Dentons Rodyk is acting as project development lawyers for real estate developer, Sim Lian Group in their project sales of Treasure at Tampines. The project site of about 656,000 sq ft is situated in the eastern part of Singapore and will comprise 28 blocks of about 2,300 units making it the largest residential condominium development in Singapore in terms of the number of units.