Singapore Property

Singapore ranked best Asian country for expats: survey

Singapore came in sixth in the list of top expat destinations in a recent survey by InterNations, making it the first Asian country on the list.

Continue Reading • 15 Oct 2014

Exodus of property agents

A significant number of property agents left the industry after March 2012 due to shrinking profits and higher marketing costs.

Continue Reading • 14 Oct 2014

Resale volumes of private condos down in Q2

Resale volumes of private condominiums in Singapore plunged to levels last seen during the Global Financial Crisis.

Continue Reading • 7 Oct 2014

Marina One Residences to launch next weekend

Developer M+S plans to release 150 to 200 units which will be priced from $1,960 to $3,100 psf.

Continue Reading • 3 Oct 2014

Margin compression a threat among local developers

Margin compression is a real threat among property developers in Singapore as the government is unlikely to relax its property cooling measures anytime soon.

Continue Reading • 3 Oct 2014

TEE Land's net profit more than triples

Singapore-listed TEE Land Ltd’s profit after tax surged to $2.7 million in the first quarter ended 31 August 2014 (Q1 FY2015) from $0.6 million a year ago.

Continue Reading • 2 Oct 2014

Private property prices continue to drop in Q3

The private residential property index fell 1.3 points to 208.1 points in Q3 2014 -- the fourth continuous quarter of price decrease.

Continue Reading • 1 Oct 2014

Resale private home prices unchanged in August: SRPI

Resale prices of private homes in Singapore remained largely unchanged in August, according to Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI) flash estimates.

Continue Reading • 30 Sep 2014

Bellewoods EC attracts 400 applications

Bellewoods saw a crowd of 1,500 as well as around 400 applications during its launch on Saturday.

Continue Reading • 29 Sep 2014

Home ownership rate still at 90%

The number of resident Singaporean households who own their homes climbed to 1.06 million last year, while home ownership rate remained at 90 percent during the last two years.

Continue Reading • 26 Sep 2014

Wider price gap between HDB flats, private homes

Despite the cooling residential market, it has become harder for HDB homeowners to switch to a private condo due to the widening price gap between these types of properties.

Continue Reading • 25 Sep 2014

Good property consultants do not trade

Property consultants may be lured into investing in real estate, but a good consultant should be able to remain detached and not get carried away.

Continue Reading • 23 Sep 2014

Reinstate reverse mortgage, urges experts

Banks should reintroduce reverse mortgages because it could ease the financial woes of asset-rich, cash-poor Singaporeans during their retirement.

Continue Reading • 18 Sep 2014

OCR units most sought after in August

Sales in the Outside Central Region (OCR) made the greatest contribution to new home sales in August,making up 51.6 percent.

Continue Reading • 17 Sep 2014

Sustainability of Highline Residences' demand uncertain

Given the popularity of Tiong Bahru as an estate, the positive response for 500-unit Highline Residences is not unexpected and a quarter of the units there were sold over the weekend.

Continue Reading • 17 Sep 2014

Drop in new private home sales

Developers sold 432 new private homes in the month of August 2014, according to fresh data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)...

Continue Reading • 15 Sep 2014

Highline Residences receives positive response

Over 80 percent of the first 160 units released were sold at an average price of $1,900 after taking into account a special preview discount, which ranged from $28,000 to $68,000.

Continue Reading • 15 Sep 2014

Eye on Sengkang: Still room for more growth

For an estate which came into life in the late 1990s, Sengkang is one of Singapore's newest estates but it has been quickly growing out of its infancy.

Continue Reading • 15 Sep 2014