myanmar | colliers press conference july 2013
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Press conference in Bangkok relating to property market in Yangon.TRANSCRIPT
Colliers in MyanmarTony Picon | Managing Director | Colliers International Myanmar
Press conference | Bangkok
Colliers | The pioneer in Myanmar
• Established Colliers International Myanmar in July 2013• Office in Centrepoint Tower (next to new Hilton)• Property manager for Centrepoint Tower• First research report in H1 2011• Growing portfolio of valuations, pre-feasibility studies, market studies, agency services
• Represented Unilever, Nestle, Standard Chartered Bank
• Strong growth expected as property market develops
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Map of Yangon | How we zone the city
3Thilawa Port 25 km
Outside Yangon City
Office market
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Office market | Demand to far outpace supply
• Increase of 120,000 sq m by 2015• Smaller office buildings• Not enough to meet demand• Demand – Oil & Gas, MNCs, Financial, Services, BPO• Rentals hit 100 USD per sq m per month• Expected to soar to 150 USD• Out of town for lower rentals• Growth of small serviced offices
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Hotel market
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Hotel market
• Offices being moved out• Rates keeping RevPAR high• Hilton first US brand to enter• Hotels start to expand and renovate• New hotels to come on-stream• All grades required• Mandalay to the rescue – increasing airlift• Expect high rates for 3-5 years
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Serviced apartment
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Serviced apartment
• Serious lack of supply of apartments• Also lack of alternatives – condo, cheap houses, non-serviced apartments
• Demand expected to soar• Limited new supply and also large units and expensive• Expats must downgrade their lifestyle• Bangkok/Yangon day trips• Expats, Repats and now …… • meet the Bangkok “Halfpats”
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Retail
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Retail | Time for the big guns
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● Large retailers coming
● Local strength
● Limited luxury entry
● Mid-end and impulse
● Foreign demand
● Mixed use
● Less imports
Condominium
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Condominium | Carry on regardless
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● Local to local
● A history of high rise
● Cash driven condo
market
● A little more luxury
● Most expensive unit?
● Too stretched
● What is a condomium?
● The new law
Yangon Industrial Map
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Industrial
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Industrial Estates | Slow start
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Land prices high
• Poor quality
• Pressure on port facilities
• Disputed land
• Source of FDI
• Activity beginning
• Thilawa SEZ – The future prime mover
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Renting space | Do your homework
● Study the market
● Due diligence
● Personality of owners
● Matter of money
● Simple leases
● Frontier market for a reason
● Landlords market....for now
● Support available 17
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