Singapore — Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, Lee Suet Fern, have sold a two-storey bungalow in the good class bungalow (GCB) area of Caldecott Hill, for S$13 million, and put an adjoining bungalow on the market for another S$16.8 million.
The second house has been listed for S$16.8 million on the real estate portal PropertyGuru. It is owned jointly by the couple. Lee Hsien Yang is the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
A Straits Times report says that the option to buy the first house which sits on a 921.6 sq m or 9,920 sq ft site has been granted to a Singaporean businessman. At S$13 million, this would work to less than S$1,400 per sq ft (psf).
The S$16.8 million asking price for the other house translates to around S$1,700 psf, based on a land area of 918.5 sq m or 9,888 sq ft.
The couple currently live in an apartment in the exclusive Nassim Road neighbourhood.
The property newly listed at S$16.8 million has six bedrooms, two living rooms, a dining room, basement wine cellar and lounge, helper’s room, an infinity pool and a koi pond. Four cars can be parked inside the property, which is being sold with vacant possession.
Both the adjoining freehold properties are located in Caldecott Close, near the former premises of Mediacorp.
Mr Lee’s move to sell the home comes as Singapore is experiencing a property frenzy that has led to an eye-watering S$32.9 billion in sales in the first half of 2021 alone, double what was recorded in New York City’s plum Manhattan district over the same six months. /TISG