IndustrialBUSINESS 1LeaseholdDistrict 3 · Bukit Merah

Sime Darby Business Centre

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 8 November 2026Data through Oct 2025
Quick Summary

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.

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What are the key facts about Sime Darby Business Centre?

Key takeawaySime Darby Business Centre is a industrial building in District 3 · Bukit Merah, zoned BUSINESS 1, held leasehold.
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
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Who owns Sime Darby Business Centre, and what is it valued at?

Key takeawayNo REIT or listed company holds Sime Darby Business Centre today on its latest filings. Earlier SGX filings about it are below, each with its date.
Whole-building deals
  1. Announced 27 Jan 2021
    HSBC 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.

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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.

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What is Sime Darby Business Centre zoned as?

Key takeawaySime Darby Business Centre sits on land zoned BUSINESS 1 with a gross plot ratio of 2.5.
Land-use zone
BUSINESS 1
Gross plot ratio
2.5

Run the full zoning report for this building →

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What has Sime Darby Business Centre sold for?

Key takeaway3 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Oct 2025 — too few to support a median, so the deals themselves are listed instead.
DateUsePriceAreaPSF
Oct 2025Multiple-user FactoryS$55.00M83,102 sqft$662
Jul 2023Multiple-user FactoryS$68.00M83,102 sqft$818
Jan 2021Multiple-user FactoryS$102.00M83,102 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

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What does space at Sime Darby Business Centre rent for?

Key takeawayNo rent is published for Sime Darby Business Centre itself. On its street, Alexandra Road, strata factory space rented at a median of $3.43 psf a month in 2026Q3. That is not this building's own rent, and never a quote for a particular unit.

Strata factory space on Alexandra Road

Street level · 2026Q3
25th pct
—
— psm
Median
$3.43
$36.87 psm
75th pct
—
— psm

S$ per sq ft per month (median only published) · median +0.9% on a year earlier

2023Q4 · $37.05 psm2026Q3 · $36.87 psm median

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.

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Market context around Sime Darby Business Centre

Key takeawayBrokers' industrial figures for Singapore as a whole — a broker's market figure, not this building's rent.
CBRE, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)
  • 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
Singapore Figures Q2 2026
Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)
  • 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
Singapore Industrial MarketBeat Q2 2026

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.

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What's been approved at Sime Darby Business Centre?

Key takeawayURA has approved 8 changes of use at Sime Darby Business Centre since 2000, most recently in 2024. This is the building's planning history, not today's approved use of any unit: confirm a unit's approved use with URA before signing.
  1. 9 Jan 2026Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed addition and alteration to the roof storey of existing part5-storey/3-storey single-user light industrial development with basementcarpark

  2. 7 Aug 2024ApprovedFloor 5
    Change of use to e-business use

    Proposed change of use of #05-XX sime darby business centre as e-business use

  3. 14 Nov 2018ApprovedFloor 4
    Change 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

  4. 30 Nov 2017Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed addition and alteration to the existing part 5-storey/3-storey single-user light industrial development with basement carpark

  5. 6 Sept 2016RenewedFloor 5
    Continued use as e-business

    Continued use of the 5th storey factory unit #05-XX as e-business (software development)

  6. 2 Mar 2015RenewedFloor 4
    Continued use as type 1 e-business

    Continued use of the 4th storey factory unit #04-XX as type 1 e-business (software development)

  7. 30 Sept 2014Approved
    Additions & 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

  8. 23 Oct 2013ApprovedFloor 4
    Change 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

  9. 21 Aug 2013RenewedFloor 5
    Continued 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)

  10. 30 Mar 2012ApprovedFloor 4
    Change 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)

  11. 23 Aug 2011ApprovedFloor 5
    Change 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)

  12. 8 Apr 2011ApprovedFloor 3
    Change 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).

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How does Alexandra Road price?

Key takeawayAlexandra Road's current JTC street rent is S$36.87 psm/month (2026Q3), which against the street's strata sale median works out to an indicative gross yield of 11.3% (10.2% net of property tax).
Strata sales on the street (5y)
28
Street median PSF (strata)
$365
Indicative street yield
11.3% gross
10.2% net of property tax

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.

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What is near Sime Darby Business Centre?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Queenstown MRT, about 643 m away.

Getting around

Amenities nearby

Bef IKEA Ind Bldg · 42 mMeden Clinic & Surgery · 86 mABC Brickworks Market & Food Centre · 288 mEducational Institution · 320 mQueenstown MRT Exit A · 608 mAlexandra Hospital · 780 mBusiness Park · 1.3 km

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

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Getting there and parking at Sime Darby Business Centre

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Queenstown (EW19), 608 m away — a moderately busy station, with about 36,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 16 public car parks are within 500 m.
Foot traffic: busier than 92% of industrial buildings

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 m
    S$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 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 460 car lots
  • Blk 2A Jalan Bukit Merah (HDB)209 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 220 car lots
  • Blk 168A Queensway (HDB)274 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday
  • Blk 34-36 Jalan Rumah Tinggi (HDB)277 m
    S$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.

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Who's registered at Sime Darby Business Centre?

Key takeaway3 live companies (and LLPs and branches; sole proprietors are not counted) list Sime Darby Business Centre as their registered address. These are registered businesses, not who occupies the space.
  • Wholesale and retail trade
    2
  • Other services
    1
  • Financial and insurance
    0
  • Information and communications
    0
  • Manufacturing
    0
  • Professional, scientific and technical services
    0
  • Transportation and storage
    0
  • Education
    0
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation
    0

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.

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What does industrial space rent for on this street?

Key takeawayJTC's street-level record shows a median of S$36.81 psm/month — an all-time median from 2000 onwards, not a current rent.
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.

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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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