IT ROSE to fever pitch just 12 months ago, but as the latest property market figures roll in, the en bloc charge could be all but over for property owners and developers alike. Price growth in the private residential market slowed for the third straight quarter to 0.4 per cent, even as Housing Development Board resale prices grew strongly by 4.4 per cent between April and last month. This petering off in...
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HDB upgraders’ demand for condos outside central region could also rise AS SOARING rental rates add to their cost burden, more Permanent Residents (PRs) are snapping up Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats. “Two years ago, you would pay less than $1,000 a month in rent for a four-room flat but now, you would be paying almost $2,000,” said PropNex chief executive Mohamed Ismail. “If...
Private residential property prices rose 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of this year, according to flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Tuesday. The rise followed a 3.7 per cent increase in the first quarter. Prices of non-landed private residential properties increased by 0.2 per cent in the Core Central Region, 0.7 per cent in the Rest of Central Region and 1.3 per...
Prices of HDB resale flats rose 4.4 per cent in the three months to June over the previous quarter, according to the Housing and Development Board's flash estimate. Straits Vista @ Marsiling This was slightly higher than the 3.7 per cent increase in the first quarter. In the first half of the year, HDB has launched a total of 4,524 new flats. Subject to demand, HDB plans to offer about 3,900 new flats...
Singapore's office property sector market appears to be cooling a little. According to property consultant DTZ, the average office occupancy rate for the second quarter of this year saw a dip of 0.2 percentage point. Office rental prices have also been flat - suggesting that the market is resistant to rising prices. According to DTZ, the average office occupancy rate in the second quarter dipped to 96.9...
Mr Li Ka Shing’s Cheung Kong Holdings, Asia’s second-largest developer by market value, said it is keen to invest in Hong Kong, China and Singapore as the region’s property market is undergoes a “small consolidation”. Prime offices and industrial parks offer investment opportunities because of economic “fundamentals” in the region, Cheung Kong’s Executive Director Justin Chiu said at a...
Foreign developers are upbeat about Singapore's property market, and despite signs of a slowdown, they see opportunities for growth. Although the government may be releasing fewer sites for sale under the Confirmed List, one of the largest property developers in Hong Kong is viewing the latest government land sales list with great interest. Cheung Kong Holdings is interested in the white site at Jurong...
PRIVATE property sales by developers remained weak last month, with 441 units sold. That may be up 55 per cent from the 284 units sold in April, but over 3,000 new units remained unsold. That was despite developers cutting their prices for homes in 18 developments last month. Median prices for The Verve along Jalan Rajah, for example, dropped 17 per cent from $1,187 per sq ft (psf) in March to $985 psf in...
There has been a sharp pick-up in the number of private home sales in May - more than 441 homes changed hands, about 56 per cent higher than the previous month. Despite the spike, analysts said it is premature to talk about any strong rebound in the property sector. Colliers International’s director of research and advisory, Tay Huey Ying, said: “I wouldn’t say that this set of May numbers give a...
Sentiments in the Singapore residential property market continued to weaken in the first quarter on the back of a possible recession in the United States. Private home sales dropped by 40 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with the last quarter of 2007, according to a report by DTZ Research. Transactions of private condominium units, based on caveats lodged, fell 41 percent to 2,500,...