FOCUS WILL BE OUR SALE OF ENGLISH HOUSE – WWW.SHOPHOUSE.CLUB
Merry Christmas to all and I wish you the best Xmas Ever….
We will be giving away this book signed by Dr Julian Davison to every client who Buy., Sell & Leased with us IN 2025. Dr Julian Davison is the partner of our one stop concierge for People who Love Shophouses .
THE LEGACY HUNTERS- DR JULIAN DAVISON & SIMON MONTEIRO : WE CURATE GREAT TROPHY REAL ESTATE
We now have a Trophy Real Estate Club : Shophouse.Club . Will be launch on 31st January 2025. Looking at the above , we have been very active acquiring for family offices and Ultra UHNW very discreet Sale .
We have acquired 3 Heritage Assets for 2 Family Offices in recent months. We also have a Good Class Bungalow Team who handles New Singaporeans.
207 EAST COAST ROAD – LEASED BY US.
We just Leased this Asset at the Highest Rental in East Coast. More info pls Private Message me at +65 90101024
From the Past in 2006…
THIS WAS IN 2006 – WE ARE NOW SELLING THIS REAL ESTATE ASSET IN SINGAPORE – FOREIGNERS ELIGIBLE
BASED ON THE MASTERPLAN IN 2009 – THIS CONSERVATION BUILDING IS NOW FULLY CONMERCIAL.
ALL FOREIGNERS CAN BUY WITH OUT ANY ADDITIONAL BUYERS STAMP DUTY
LOOKING BACK AT OUR SALE – 30 TO 42 JOO CHIAT PLACE
FROM OUR MANUSCRIPT VAULT – AN 1828 LETTER TO GUTHRIE & CLARKE SINGAPORE . AN EARLY COMPANY IN SINGAPORE.
With the help of Alexander Laurie Johnston and William Farquhar, Guthrie rented a godown on Hill Street, where he sold British goods such as woollen cloth, cotton twist, nails, axes, knives, clocks, stationery, brandy and sherry to the Chinese and European communities in town. Following Johnston’s practice, he carried out his trade through Chinese middlemen.9
When the rented godown was sold off by its owner, Guthrie obtained Farquhar’s help to secure a plot of land on High Street where he built his second godown. However, Guthrie lost his second godown when the layout of Singapore town was reorganised upon Stamford Raffles’s return to Singapore in 1822.10 Undeterred, he leased a patch of swamp from the government in the Boat Quay area where he built his third godown. Business resumed and the establishment of a partnership named Harrington & Guthrie was formally announced on 1 February 1823. But the partnership ended on 8 November that same year.11
Guthrie & Co.’s history began in 1823 when a partnership was established between Alexander Guthrie and Thomas Talbot Harrington, a family friend. First located in a rented godown on Hill Street, the company sold British goods to the European and Chinese communities in Singapore. Following a number of changes in partnership, the company was renamed Guthrie & Co. in 1833.1 By the mid-19th century, its main business was in the trading of British goods and Straits produce.2 It also acted as an agent for shipping, banking and insurance businesses, including London banking firm Coutts.3 Under the leadership of John Anderson, the firm diversified into agricultural and mining estates in the Malay Peninsula and surrounding region.4 It was one of the largest rubber-producing companies by 1910, with operations in Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra.5 Currently known as Guthrie GTS Pte Ltd, its core businesses include engineering, property and leisure.6
Early history
Guthrie, a Scot, first arrived in Singapore from the Cape of the Good Hope in 1821 to conduct business on behalf of Harrington & Co.7 He had obtained his indenture to trade in Singapore on 10 April 1820 from the Marquis of Hastings, then governor-general of India.8
In February 1824, Guthrie entered into a new partnership with James Scott Clark and the company was named Guthrie & Clark.12 Clark left the firm in 1833, following which Guthrie pursued the business alone as Guthrie & Co.13
SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MY LATE GRANDMOTHER 291 RIVER VALLEY ROAD – MISSION TO SEAMEN
My Late Grandmother – MDM OOI SEOK KHIM – MISSION TO SEAMEN 291 RIVER VALLEY ROAD
When I was 12 years old I followed by grandmother here and helped her. In 2001 I sold this asset for S$950k for the Mission.
Interestingly, 291 River Valley Road has been officially designated by the Government of Singapore as a protected Heritage Site. Even though “The Missions to Seamen” title is no longer in use, visitors will still be able to see our former name “preserved” and literally cast in stone above the main entrance to the house.