Most
property companies registered little profit last year as the gloomy market
continued to adversely affect their operations.
A sharp revenue drop and a build-up of unsold
products caused by weak demand in the apartment segment coupled with rising
borrowing costs have led to poor results of realty firms.
Market leader Hoang Anh Gia Lai saw its profit
plunge by 89 percent year-on-year, from 2.08 trillion dong in 2010 to 224
billion dong last year.
The group explained its subsidiaries no longer
enjoyed profits generated by the parent firm as the latter is now only in
charge of management.
Sai Gon Thuong Tin Real Estate Company, better
known as Sacomreal, recorded a loss of nearly 40 billion dong in the final
quarter of last year. The firm’s revenue from product sales and services in
2011 halved to 540 billion dong from 1.09 trillion dong in 2010.
Sacomreal’s profit was dragged down 83 percent
to a mere 80 billion dong last year, against 485.5 billion dong in 2010.
Phat Dat Property Development Corporation
didn’t fare any better.
The company in its financial statement
reported its 2011 revenue totaled a mere 127 billion dong, a drop of 92 percent
from 1.57 trillion dong in 2010. The company’s profit also dipped to 4.5
billion dong, equivalent to 1 percent of the 331 billion dong in 2010.
With the loss of over 225 million dong
recorded in the last quarter of 2011, the whole year’s profit of House Vietnam
Joint Stock Company dwindled by 96 percent compared to 2010.
Similarly, Dat Xanh Real Estate Service and
Construction Corporation witnessed its profit decline by a half due to the loss
of over 16.5 billion dong in the last quarter.
The business results of 10 major property
companies show that their combined profits in 2011 are still lower than the
profit of Sacomreal alone in 2010 and far behind the profit of Hoang Anh Gia
Lai in the same year.
Most realty firms ascribed their dismal
profits to the continued difficulties faced by the market and poor sales of
products, while financial costs, specifically interest rates, put more pressure
on many enterprises.
For instance, Thu Duc Housing Development
Corporation (Thuduc House) had to pay an interest sum of 49 billion dong last
year, a significant rise from 11 billion dong in 2010.
Sacomreal had 249.5 billion dong in loan
interest payables in 2011, or an increase of 10 percent year-on-year.
Pressure of loan repayment, along with
stagnant trade, has forced several property enterprises to discount their
products in order to rev up demand as well as quickly recover capital to
withdraw from the market.
Most real estate companies are now debtors to
the banks. To boost product sales to pay their debts is thus currently a big
challenge to property enterprises.
In the outlook for the local property market
this year, analysts of VietCapital Securities predicted 2012 would be another
tough year for the market given the liquidity crisis and property lending
restrictions.
Market observers forecast the trend of project
transfer would continue in 2012, and the market would hardly pick up as real
estate credit is still tightened.
Tuoi Tre
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