Older HDB blocks to benefit from enhanced upgrading programmes
To improve older HDB estates, the government will make three enhancements to its upgrading programmes.
Continue Reading • 11 Sept 2014
Too costly to incentivise parents to leave mature estates
Minister Khaw Boon Wan seems to have backed out of the idea of giving incentives to parents living in mature estates to move with children in new towns.
Continue Reading • 11 Sept 2014
Freehold site in Serangoon up for auction
A freehold re-development site measuring 8,666 sq ft at 13 Brighton Crescent in Serangoon is up for auction.
Continue Reading • 10 Sept 2014
HDB's Punggol Northshore offers seafront living experience
Set to be Punggol's first seafront housing district, Punggol Northshore will offer about 6,000 new flats.
Continue Reading • 10 Sept 2014
Home prices may drop 20% by 2016: report
Home prices in Singapore could fall by 20 percent between 2014 and 2016, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BOAML) report.
Continue Reading • 10 Sept 2014
Foreign developers still keen on S'pore land sites
More foreign developers are now choosing to develop land parcels in Singapore...
Continue Reading • 10 Sept 2014
Sim Lian wins EC site tender
An EC site at Choa Chu Kang Drive has been awarded to Sim Lian Land...
Continue Reading • 10 Sept 2014
Lease Buyback Scheme will not leave owners homeless: MND
The Ministry of National Development (MND) has assured homeowners who outlive the lease for the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) will not be left homeless.
Continue Reading • 9 Sept 2014
MND reveals recent BTO flat prices
In a written answer to a query in Parliament yesterday, the Ministry of National Development (MND) revealed the average selling prices of BTO flats offered recently in the non-mature estates range from around $110,000 to $386,000.
Continue Reading • 9 Sept 2014
Govt urged to have more dialogue with developers
More dialogue between the government and developers should be conducted as the slowing demand for property could damage the wider economy.
Continue Reading • 9 Sept 2014
Potong Pasir has come a long way: PM Lee
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Potong Pasir has come a long way since its early days as a sand quarry...
Continue Reading • 9 Sept 2014
520 complaints on illegal rental of private homes
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has received about 520 complaints since 2013 on the alleged rental of individual strata-titled private residential properties for less than six months. The Ministry of National Development (MND) revealed this at today’s parliament session, and said URA...
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
More launches expected in coming months
Developers are expected to launch more private residential projects in September and October.
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
Developers will have to diversify out of Singapore
Singapore's residential property developers are urged to diversify out of the local property market given its increasingly tight conditions.
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
Ground broken for Lentor, Mayflower MRT stations
Construction work has begun on two new MRT stations on the $24 billion Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL)...
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
Low tender prices may lead to cost overruns
SCAL President Dr Ho Nyok Yong encouraged its members to be vigilant when it comes to tendering new projects.
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
CEA wants feedback from salespersons
The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) has been conducting focus group discussions with salespersons to gather their views for developing guidelines and policies.
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
GCB prices still soaring amid fewer sales
Prices of good class bungalows (GCBs), considered the most expensive homes in Singapore, grew 6.7 percent to average $1,488 psf in H1 2014...
Continue Reading • 8 Sept 2014
Buyers shun luxury city apartments despite price falls
Luxury apartment sales in the city centre sank markedly in the first half of 2014,...
Continue Reading • 5 Sept 2014
Choa Chu Kang Drive EC site receives eight bids
The tender for an Executive Condominium land parcel at Choa Chu Kang Drive received eight bids.
Continue Reading • 5 Sept 2014