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Parc Canberra, an executive condominium (EC) in Singapore's north region, on Friday launched its sales gallery and online applications. Online applications are open till Feb 10. The booking of units will start on Feb 15. The average price for Parc Canberra units is about S$1,080 per square foot (psf), said its developer Hoi Hup Sunway Canberra, a joint venture between Hoi Hup Realty and Sunway...

Private home sales are expected to remain resilient in 2020, Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS) President Chia Ngiang Hong said on Friday (Jan 31). Speaking at the the association's spring festival lunch, he said there could be more than 30 projects with 9,000 new units launched for sale this year. Half of the new projects are expected to be located in the core central...

The Law Society plans to insert a clause into its widely-used property transaction agreement template to make mediation the first port of call for parties to resolve disputes. Gregory Vijayendran, president of the Law Society, said at the recent opening of the legal year in early January that the organisation intends to revise the Law Society's Conditions of Sale 2012 to include a rule that requires...

FREEHOLD condominium Wing Fong Mansions in Geylang has been launched for collective sale with a reserve price of S$176 million, marketing agent PropNex Realty told The Business Times (BT) on Wednesday. It is up for tender along with an adjacent condo, Wing Fong Court, which was also put on the market two weeks ago at a reserve price of S$108 million. At least 80 per cent of the owners at Wing Fong...

Singapore property investment sales could increase by 6 per cent to S$31.3 billion in 2020 from S$29.5 billion in 2019, real estate services firm Colliers International said in its latest report. Investment sales volumes fell 12.7 per cent last year "largely due to the pullback in the residential property sector as cooling measures continued to bite", said Colliers. The commercial property sector led...

JTC on Tuesday said it is accepting applications for a reserve list site at Tuas South Link 3. The land parcel is the second of five reserve list sites under the first half of the 2020 industrial government land sales programme. The site, with a 20-year tenure, has an area of 0.45 hectare and a gross plot ratio of 1.4. It is zoned "B2" for industrial purposes. A site on the reserve list is triggered...

Developers should breathe easier as the private home market seems to have achieved a soft landing in 2019 as prices rose moderately amid higher sales, despite tough cooling measures imposed in 2018. Demand for private homes remained resilient with the price index up 0.5 per cent in Q4 over the prior quarter, and higher than the 0.3 per cent flash estimate released on Jan 2, according to the latest data...

Singapore's private home price index rose 0.5 per cent in Q4 2019 over the prior quarter, faster than the 0.3 per cent flash estimate released on Jan 2, according to the latest data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Thursday. For the full year of 2019, prices were 2.7 per cent higher, versus the 7.9 per cent rise in 2018. In Q3 2019, the index rose 1.3 per cent. In Q4 2019, prices of...

More Housing Board resale flats changed hands in the fourth quarter of last year and their prices inched up, latest public housing figures show. There were 6,339 resale transactions in the fourth quarter, compared with 6,264 cases in the third quarter, the Housing Board said on Thursday. The fourth quarter's figure last year was also 12.5 per cent higher than the number of resale transactions in the...

Rents and prices of industrial space in Singapore remained relatively stable in the fourth quarter of last year, though prices were marginally lower by 0.2 per cent quarter on quarter, according to the latest data from industrial land and infrastructure agency JTC Corp. The rental index was flat, while the occupancy rate for industrial space edged down 0.1 percentage point to 89.2 per cent. Compared...