Ching Chern, heads the real estate practice at CHP Law. She enjoys over 25 years of transactional experience.
Ching Chern's practice spans real estate and financing transactions across various property types—residential, commercial, industrial, and hotel. She has represented a wide range of clients, including individual and corporate buyers and sellers, licensed and unlicensed developers, financial institutions, CPF Board and members, landlords, tenants, statutory boards on land matters, and hotel purchasers in Singapore.
Her dedication to drafting and meticulously understanding each legal matter has led her to specialise in providing sophisticated legal counsel across diverse real estate projects.
She is a Member of The Law Society of Singapore’s Conveyancing Practice Committee since 2011.
Driven by her passion for assisting clients in real estate transactions, Ching Chern approaches each case with the same enthusiasm she reserves for her other interests, such as reading and exploring the arts scene.
Deal Highlights
- Advised and acted for a subsidiary of a listed developer in its development sales of terrace houses and semi-detached houses, including advising on the transfer of the electrical sub-station on the development estate, and advising and assisting the developer in requiring its errant purchasers to rectify their encroachment on parts of the road (pending its surrender to the Land Transport Authority).
- Advised and acted for subsidiaries of various listed licensed developers in their development sales of several blocks of residential units in their respective condominium projects.
- Advised and acted for the Collective Sale Committees of Fernhill Court, Orchard Bel Air, Astor Green Condominium, Highgate Condominium, Nouvelle Park, Casa Riviera, Ville Des Flores, Pandan Valley Condominium, and Laguna Park.
- Acted for a reputed Singapore bank for the mortgage of a Vanuatu-flagged vessel in the Vanuatu Ship Registry located in New York City, United States of America - to ensure the enforceability of the bank’s security against the Vanuatu vessel.
- Advised and acted for the purchaser consortium in its purchase and mortgage of the 334-room Bay Hotel Singapore (now renamed as Travelodge Harbourfront), obtaining fresh hotel licenses and completion within 5 weeks from the date of the Sale & Purchase Agreement. It was one of the largest hotel transactions in Singapore in 2019.
