Lippo-Mapletree Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIR Trust) has posted first half earnings of S$39.3 million, 3 per cent higher than its own forecast. Revenue came in at S$53.8 million, which also exceeded projections. Lippo-Mapletree said it is on track to pay out 5.84 cents per unit for the whole year, as earlier forecast. The trust said it is less affected by inflationary pressures because it targets the...
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JTC Corporation has reported a record take-up of some 246,300 square metres of its ready-built space last year, surpassing the previous record seen in 2005. The bouyant industrial property market last year helped JTC to book a record surplus of S$1.183 billion, up 50 per cent from 2006. The numbers were also boosted by impairment loss write-backs of nearly S$159.4 million on its properties. But JTC has...
Singapore developer CapitaLand is seeing strong response for its high-end luxury residential units at Raffles City Bahrain. When completed in 2010, the Raffles City Bahrain integrated development will include three residential towers, landscaped sky villas, and high-end retail outlets. CapitaLand said that about 80 per cent of the units in one of the residential towers have been booked within three weeks...
Some 20,000 people have visited the showflats at Park Central@AMK, Singapore’s third condominium-style public housing development. The project, launched last week, has received over 1,000 applications so far, marginally lower than City View@Boon Keng, a similar development nearer the city that went on sale earlier this year. Applications for Park Central units will close on August 5. David Liew,...
Luxury-end private residences in Singapore are facing price pressures, and one developer hopes to get around that by having a famous brand-name designer work on its project. Heeton Realty - a joint venture between Singapore developer Heeton Holdings and JP Morgan - is counting on the collaboration with a company co-founded by well-known French designer, Philippe Starck, to draw in the buyers. It is...
Building government projects at a later time may cost more if prices of materials continue to rise. However, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said that is a calculated risk the government has to take. To cool the market, the government is deferring a total of about S$4.7 billion worth of public sector construction projects to 2010 and beyond. Construction is one of the hottest industries in...
PRIVATE home prices rose a slender 0.2 per cent over the second quarter. That’s half the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s earlier flash estimate of 0.4 per cent growth. This was the third consecutive quarter in which prices rose more slowly, after rocketing 31.2 per cent last year. “The continued weakening of the property price index continues to reflect cautious sentiment in view of the slowing US...
More choice for home-buyers HAD you $20,000 in cash to pay for the Cash-Over-Valuation (COV) component of a resale 4-room Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, you would have better bargaining power now than in the last quarter of 2007. Back then, you might just have been able to afford such a flat in far-flung areas such as Bukit Panjang, Chua Chu Kang, Jurong or Woodlands. But between April and...
Prices of private homes in Singapore grew at a slower pace in the second quarter than initially projected - climbing at just 0.2 per cent against an earlier estimate of 0.4 per cent. This is a far cry from the 3.7 per cent growth in the previous three months. Analysts said this is the first time that final numbers have come in lower than flash estimates, suggesting that home prices are finally...
Prices for public housing on the resale market have risen, while those for private property have moderated for the second quarter of 2008. According to latest official figures, there has also been little upward movement in the private property rental market. Data for the HDB resale and rental markets based on transactions in Q2 saw HDB's Resale Price Index (RPI) up 4.5 per cent, compared to the 3.7 per...