When the Paya Lebar Air Base is relocated in the 2030s, the current site might be turned into a heritage district, with existing infrastructure including the control tower, hangars, and old passenger terminal buildings preserved. The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and the Singapore Institute of Planners (SIP) were hired by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to come up with suggestions for...
Singapore property tax is due to increase in 2023 and 2024. How will it impact the residential market? On 18 February 2022, Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said in his 2022 budget speech that property taxes on non-owner-occupied homes, including investment properties, will be raised to 12 to 36 percent over the next two years from the current rates of 10 to 20 percent. Owner-occupied...
Despite new price records, sales of new private residences and resale properties in Singapore increased last year, according to figures released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Friday (Jan 28). Developers sold 13,027 private residential units in total in 2021, compared to 9,982 units the previous year. In the secondary market, 19,962 resale properties were sold in 2018, compared to 10,729 in...
After a strong 2021 where total transaction volumes for new launch private non-landed properties amounted to 12,574 for the whole year (a 34 per cent increase y-o-y), what are the next highly anticipated new launches for 2022? The Singapore property market had a robust 2021 with private residential transactions at 28,734 units (excluding ECs), a large 57 per cent increase from 2020, when a total 18,295...
A quick review of how did Singapore property market perform in 2021 and what's ahead in 2022 Singapore private and public housing markets saw a buoyant year in 2021, with prices reaching new peaks and annual sales hitting the highest level in several years. Private home prices jumped 10.6 per cent in 2021, quickening from a 2.2 per cent increase the year before, according to flash estimates from the...
The Government on Wednesday (Dec 15) announced a package of measures to cool the private residential and HDB resale markets. The measures include raising Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) rates, tightening the Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) threshold and lowering the Loan-to-Value (LTV) limit for loans from the Housing and Development Board (HDB), said the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of...
Private property prices in Singapore rose 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020 from the previous quarter, according to flash estimates by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday (Jan 4). This compares with a 0.8 per cent increase in the previous quarter, said URA. For the whole of 2020, private home prices rose by 2.2 per cent, compared with the 2.7 per cent increase in 2019. Ms...
Despite a pandemic and an economic recession, it has been a surprising year for the property market. Property buyers began snapping up new homes as soon as the circuit breaker eased and they could visit showrooms again, contributing to a seesawing of private home sale numbers in the final months of the year as government regulations kicked in to cool the market. In June, the same month that Singapore...
New private home sales in Singapore rose by 18.9 per cent in November, reversing a decline seen in October, on the back of new project launches by developers. Private developers sold 767 units, excluding executive condominiums (ECs), in November, data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Tuesday (Dec 15). This figure is 18.9 per cent higher than October's 645 units, but a 34.2 per...
New private home sales in Singapore plunged more than 50 per cent in October amid a dearth of fresh projects and restrictions on the reissue of options to purchase (OTP). Private developers sold 642 units, excluding executive condominiums (ECs), in October, data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Monday (Nov 16). This is down 51.7 per cent from September's more than two-year high...
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