Some Singapore-listed housing developers can now apply to be exempted from the Qualifying Certificate (QC) rules imposed on foreign housing developers, provided they have a "substantial connection to Singapore". This will spare them from having to pay hefty extension charges if they cannot meet stipulated deadlines to complete developing their projects and selling all the units. Developers that stand...
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...
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...
Private home sales in 2019 rose 15 per cent to 10,104 units - signalling a resilient housing market as unemployment remained low, despite an expectedly slow month in December. Housing demand was robust across the board, with six of the top 10 selling projects located in the outside central region (OCR) as HDB upgraders continued to snap up private homes, noted Lee Sze Teck, Huttons Asia director...
Sales of new private homes plunged 53.8 per cent month-on-month last December, on the back of the year-end holidays and with few new units launched. Developers sold 538 homes - excluding executive condominiums - in December, according to data complied by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). This was a sharp drop from the revised 1,165 homes sold the previous month. On a year-on-year basis,...
The cooling measures introduced in July 2018 have dampened overall home-buying demand but in the top end of the condo market, foreigners may have shown more resilience. Drawing data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) Realis, a report by ERA Research & Consultancy showed that the number of non-landed private residential units in the Core Central Region (CCR) bought by Singaporeans sank some...
The number of Singapore condominium units resold last year totaled just 9,017, sliding 27.4 per cent from 2018, according to real estate portal SRX Property's latest report on the non-landed private residential resale market. As for December 2019, an estimated 650 units were resold during the month, dropping 15.4 per cent from the previous month but increasing 21.5 per cent year on year (y-o-y),...
Prices of private homes in Singapore are expected to rise by between 1 and 5 per cent this year, analysts say, after clocking a 2.5 per cent gain in 2019. At 2.5 per cent, the price growth moderated from the 7.9 per cent clip in 2018, the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) flash estimate showed. For the fourth quarter of 2019, the overall price index for private homes was up 0.3 per cent - led by...
2019 was a busy year for the Ministry of National Development, with several major announcements related to housing policies. Advertisement Analysts told TODAY that they expect 2020 to be a “quiet year” with few to no policy changes, especially with a General Election around the corner — it has to be called by April 2021. Mr Nicholas Mak, the head of research and consultancy at real estate...
Private home prices in Singapore rose for the third consecutive quarter in 2019, as the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) flash estimate for the fourth quarter of 2019 shows that its overall price index for private homes rose 0.3 per cent over the prior quarter. For 2019 as a whole, prices are up 2.5 per cent, versus the 7.9 per cent rise seen in 2018, according to the URA flash data released on...
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