Sime Darby Business Centre
Sime Darby Business Centre is a industrial building in District 3 · Bukit Merah, on land zoned BUSINESS 1 under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. It is leasehold with roughly 29 years remaining. 3 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Oct 2025. ACRA records 3 live company registrations at this address.
What are the key facts about Sime Darby Business Centre?
- Asset class
- Industrial
- Land-use zone
- BUSINESS 1
- Gross plot ratio
- 2.5
- Tenure
- Leasehold
- District / Area
- District 3 · Bukit Merah
- Address
- 315 Alexandra Road
- Land area
- 7,720 sqm
- Completed
- Not on record
- Storeys
- 5 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Estate (JTC)
- Alexandra Village Industrial Estate
- Transactions on record
- 3 (records start 1995)
- Live listings
- None
- ACRA registrations
- 3
Who owns Sime Darby Business Centre, and what is it valued at?
- Announced 27 Jan 2021HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited, in its capacity as trustee of AA REIT Alexandra Trust bought 315 Alexandra Road, Singapore for S$102 million (purchase price) from Aster (Alexandra) Pte. Ltd..At the time: WALE 7.8 years
Source: the owners' own filings on SGX — notices of valuation of real assets, acquisition and divestment announcements, and annual reports. Facts only, each with its date; a valuation is not a sale price, and occupancy and WALE are as of the date shown. Only REITs and SGX-listed companies file these: a building with a private owner shows no owner here.
About Sime Darby Business Centre
Sime Darby Business Centre is an industrial building in Bukit Merah (District 03). It is located along Alexandra Road, Singapore 159944.
Under the URA Master Plan the site is zoned Business 1 with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. Business 1 zoning covers clean and light industry with a nuisance buffer of 50 m.
The site is leasehold, with about 29 years left to run. A tail that short materially narrows the pool of banks willing to finance a purchase. It sits on about 7,720 sqm of land with roughly 16,647 sqm of gross floor area.
3 transactions have been recorded here, at a median of S$818 psf. The most recent was in October 2025.
Across JTC's rental returns for Alexandra Road, the median rent for industrial space on this street works out to about S$3.42 psf per month over 98 observations. Observed medians on the street span S$0.94 to S$4.20 psf per month. These are street-level figures from undated JTC snapshots, not a rent quoted for this property.
The nearest port or airport land is about 2.2 km away. The closest business-park zone is about 1.3 km away. The nearest MRT is Queenstown MRT, 642 m away (about a 10-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Bef IKEA Ind Bldg) is 42 m away (about a 1-minute walk).
5 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.
What is Sime Darby Business Centre zoned as?
- Land-use zone
- BUSINESS 1
- Gross plot ratio
- 2.5
What has Sime Darby Business Centre sold for?
| Date | Use | Price | Area | PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Multiple-user Factory | S$55.00M | 83,102 sqft | $662 |
| Jul 2023 | Multiple-user Factory | S$68.00M | 83,102 sqft | $818 |
| Jan 2021 | Multiple-user Factory | S$102.00M | 83,102 sqft | $1,227 |
URA/JTC records from 1995 — that is where the record starts, not when the building was built. Strata and land deals can mix in one building's history; compare like with like. sqm ↔ sq ft converter
What does space at Sime Darby Business Centre rent for?
Strata factory space on Alexandra Road
Street level · 2026Q3S$ per sq ft per month (median only published) · median +0.9% on a year earlier
This is the MEDIAN of JTC-published rents across leases on this street in the stated quarter, not the asking or contracted rent of any particular unit. Streets with too few leases are suppressed by JTC and appear as no value -- suppressed is not zero.
Source: JTC J-SPACE, rental of industrial space by street.
Market context around Sime Darby Business Centre
- Factory (ground floor): Rent S$1.81 psf/mth
- Factory (upper floor): Rent S$1.41 psf/mth
- Prime logistics: Rent S$1.87 psf/mth · Capital value S$245 psf · Net yield 6.5%
- Warehouse (ground floor): Rent S$1.91 psf/mth
- Warehouse (upper floor): Rent S$1.39 psf/mth
- Factory - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.79 psf/mth
- Factory - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.57 psf/mth
- High-Tech: Rent S$3.56 psf/mth
- Prime Logistics - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.92 psf/mth
- Prime Logistics - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.74 psf/mth
- Warehouse - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.81 psf/mth
- Warehouse - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.49 psf/mth
Official series (JTC, 2026Q3): Multiple-User Factory occupancy (island-wide) 90.3% (-0.7 pp on the year) · Single-User Factory occupancy (island-wide) 89.1% (0 pp on the year) · Warehouse occupancy (island-wide) 89.7% (+0.1 pp on the year).
Brokers draw submarkets and grades differently; each figure is the broker's own, for its own area, cited to its report. Rents are per square foot per month.
What's been approved at Sime Darby Business Centre?
- 9 Jan 2026ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed addition and alteration to the roof storey of existing part5-storey/3-storey single-user light industrial development with basementcarpark
- 7 Aug 2024ApprovedFloor 5Change of use to e-business use
Proposed change of use of #05-XX sime darby business centre as e-business use
- 14 Nov 2018ApprovedFloor 4Change of use to e-business space
Proposed change of use of unit #04-XX to e-business space at existing single-user light industrial development, sime darby business centre
- 30 Nov 2017ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed addition and alteration to the existing part 5-storey/3-storey single-user light industrial development with basement carpark
- 6 Sept 2016RenewedFloor 5Continued use as e-business
Continued use of the 5th storey factory unit #05-XX as e-business (software development)
- 2 Mar 2015RenewedFloor 4Continued use as type 1 e-business
Continued use of the 4th storey factory unit #04-XX as type 1 e-business (software development)
- 30 Sept 2014ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed addition and alteration to the existing part 5-storey / part 3 storey factory with basement carpark on lot 1957 mk 01 at 315 alexandra road singapore 159944
- 23 Oct 2013ApprovedFloor 4Change of use to software and hardware development & testing
Change of use of industrial unit #04-XX to software and hardware development & testing at 315 alexandra road
- 21 Aug 2013RenewedFloor 5Continued use as type 1 e-business
Continued use of the 5th storey factory unit (#05-XX) at sime darby business centre as type 1 e-business (software development)
- 30 Mar 2012ApprovedFloor 4Change of use to type 1 e-business
Change of use of the 4th storey factory unit (#04-XX) at sime darby business centre to type 1 e-business (software development)
- 23 Aug 2011ApprovedFloor 5Change of use to type 1 e-business
Change of use of the 5th storey factory unit (#05-XX) at sime darby business centre to type 1 e-business (software development)
- 8 Apr 2011ApprovedFloor 3Change of use to type 1 e-business
Change of use of the 3rd storey factory unit (#03-XX) at sime darby business centre to type 1 e-business (software development and services)
3 earlier change-of-use and A&A decisions are on record since 2000.
Source: URA planning decisions (URA Data Service), matched to this building by address or land lot. A past approval can lapse (a temporary permission) and belongs to the unit it names. The authoritative approved use of a unit comes from URA's Enquiry on Approved Use of Premises (S$54.50 per unit).
How does Alexandra Road price?
An INDICATIVE street-level yield, not a yield for any particular unit: the current-quarter JTC street rent divided by the street's strata sale PSF median.
Net deducts the 10% non-residential property tax ONLY — not vacancy, maintenance, agent fees, financing, or the 9% GST on purchase.
Street figures cover strata deals only — land and strata PSF are not comparable.
What is near Sime Darby Business Centre?
Getting around
- Queenstown MRT643 m · ~10 min
Amenities nearby
Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.
Getting there and parking at Sime Darby Business Centre
nearest MRT/LRT Queenstown (EW19) 608 m, about 36,000 taps a weekday; bus stops within 400 m: 9, about 17,000 taps a weekday; Bukit Merah: 103,575 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 44,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026). Ranked against 8,225 industrial buildings by PropKaki's model: a relative score, not a footfall count.
A relative score from PropKaki's model (station and bus taps nearby, workers and residents around), not a count of people.
Stations within 1 km
- Queenstown (EW19)608 m · about 36,000 weekday taps
Taps are fare-card taps in and out at the station's gates on an average weekday (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026) — people passing through, not visitors to Sime Darby Business Centre. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.
Bus
9 bus stops within 400 m, with about 17,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.
Public car parks within 500 m
- Blks 8/10 Jalan Rumah Tinggi (HDB)144 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 38 car lots
- Blk 1/3/5 Jalan Bukit Merah (HDB)203 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 460 car lots
- Blk 2A Jalan Bukit Merah (HDB)209 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 220 car lots
- Blk 168A Queensway (HDB)274 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday
- Blk 34-36 Jalan Rumah Tinggi (HDB)277 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 5.4 m · 72 car lots
HDB season (car): Tier 1 $80/month (a resident's or registered HDB shop/industrial tenant's first car); Tier 2 (other cars, non-residents) $90 Rest of Island, $150 Designated Area, $165 Restricted Zone (surface). Which zone this car park is in is not published as data.
Nearest URA season parking: Pasir Panjang Road Are A, 1.8 km away, S$90/month.
Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. Sime Darby Business Centre's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.
Who's registered at Sime Darby Business Centre?
- Wholesale and retail trade2
- Other services1
- Financial and insurance0
- Information and communications0
- Manufacturing0
- Professional, scientific and technical services0
- Transportation and storage0
- Education0
- Arts, entertainment and recreation0
Registered businesses, not who occupies the space: companies, LLPs and branches whose REGISTERED address is this building (ACRA), by industry. Sole proprietors are not counted; no business is named. ACRA, as of 2026-09-16.
What does industrial space rent for on this street?
- Street rent, median
- S$36.81 psm/mo
- Observed range
- S$10.09 – S$45.21
JTC street medians span 2000 to today and are an all-time level, not today's asking rent; the forward pipeline is a forecast, not committed completions.
Frequently asked questions about Sime Darby Business Centre
Where is Sime Darby Business Centre?⌄
Sime Darby Business Centre is at 315 Alexandra Road, Singapore 159944, in the Bukit Merah planning area.
What is Sime Darby Business Centre zoned as?⌄
Sime Darby Business Centre is zoned Business 1 under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. Business 1 zoning covers clean and light industry with a nuisance buffer of 50 m.
What kind of business can operate at Sime Darby Business Centre?⌄
Business 1 zoning covers clean and light industry with a nuisance buffer of 50 m. The specific trade still has to be approved, so check the permissible-use list for your activity.
What is the tenure of Sime Darby Business Centre?⌄
Sime Darby Business Centre is leasehold. About 29 years remain on the lease. Financing gets harder below roughly 30 years, so factor that into any purchase.
What have units at Sime Darby Business Centre sold for?⌄
Across 3 recorded transactions, the median is S$818 psf. The latest was in October 2025.
What does industrial space near Sime Darby Business Centre rent for?⌄
JTC's rental returns for Alexandra Road put the median at about S$3.42 psf per month. That is a street-level figure from undated snapshots covering all industrial space on Alexandra Road, not a rent quoted for Sime Darby Business Centre itself.
What is the nearest MRT station to Sime Darby Business Centre?⌄
Queenstown MRT is the closest, 642 m away (about a 10-minute walk).
How many businesses are registered at Sime Darby Business Centre?⌄
5 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA. That counts registered addresses, not physical occupiers.
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