Abbotsford commercial market continues hot streak: As Melbourne’s summer comes to a sweltering end, another major sale in Abbotsford’s heated commercial market has taken transaction volumes to $75 million across three recent deals.
Former Poly Australia director Yuan Tao has just acquired the IKEA warehouse at 30-36 Grosvenor Street for $17.28 million via investment vehicle Southlink Grosvenor, after its $37.28 million purchase of the Australia Post and Honeywell facility across the road at 45-50 Grosvenor Street late last year.
The sites were acquired as long-term landbank plays, with a view to developing apartments in the future.
IKEA has a long-term lease over its 4,616sqm Industrial 1-zoned site, while Australia Post has a lease running until
2028 and Honeywell until 2021 over the former Weston’s biscuit factory site that encompasses 9,466sqm.
Earlier this month, the Fitzroys agents Paul Burns and James Lockwood completed the $21 million sale of the 4,735sqm site at 112 Trenerry Crescent in Abbotsford to the Zagame family, on behalf of the Australian Education Union (Victorian Branch).
Local and international parties submitted 15 offers for the recently-rezoned asset, which has a 4,242sqm four-level office building and attracted developers, investors and owner occupiers. The new owners will refurbish and re-lease the asset.
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