Parc Esta at Sims Avenue

Your new life begins at Parc Esta, at the doorstep of Eunos MRT station, a pivotal position amidst the emerging Regional Centre in the East. With nine 18-storey towers of one to five-bedroom homes, Parc Esta rises majestically above the streetscape on a nearly 3.5-hectare estate. Discover premium residences with refined touches, sumptuous realms with exciting facilities in a more than 200-metre-long garden...

HDB resale prices fall 0.2% in October; volume slips 0.3%: SRX

Resale prices of Housing Board (HDB) flats dipped 0.2 per cent in October from September, according to flash estimates released by real estate portal SRX Property on Thursday. October's prices were down 14.3 per cent from its peak in April 2013, and also marked a 2.1 per cent decrease from the same month last year. Three-room flats and five-room units saw a price increase of 0.8 per cent and 1.5 per...

CDL Q3 profit up 10.4%, says it’s ‘cognisant’ housing curbs will affect sales

City Developments Limited (CDL) said on Thursday (Nov 8) that its net profit rose 10.4 per cent in the third quarter and projected confidence in the market going forward, even as it cautioned against macroeconomic uncertainties and persistent headwinds for the Singapore residential property market. Net profit for the three months ended September rose to S$161.8 million from S$146.6 million in the same...

Merchants Building up for collective sale with S$23.5 million reserve price

Merchants Building at 76 South Bridge Road, has been put up for collective sale by tender with a reserve price of S$23.5 million. The seven-storey freehold commercial building has a land area of 104.5 square metres. Under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2014, it is zoned “commercial” with a gross plot ratio of 4.2. The property is located on an envelope control site, within the...

Sakae Holdings founder Douglas Foo selling bungalow for S$16.13m

Sakae Holdings executive chairman and founder Douglas Foo is understood to be selling a bungalow in Cassia Drive in District 11 for nearly S$16.13 million. The price works out to S$1,542 per square foot based on the freehold land area of 10,458 sq ft. Located in the Raffles Park Good Class Bungalow (GCB) Area, the two-storey property is on a squarish plot. Mr Foo has been in the news recently...

Demand for small units edging up: OrangeTee

Homebuyers' affinity for shoebox units and slightly larger offerings below 800 sq ft has been creeping up, according to an OrangeTee & Tie study on new sales and resales of small apartments between 2008 and 2018. The study centred on units below 500 sq ft or roughly the size of a one-bedder or shoebox unit, and those slightly larger, between 500 and 800 sq ft or roughly the size of a...

Positive start for sales of three private residences

Buyers snapped up a good number of the units released for three private residential developments - Arena Residences, Belgravia Green and Whistler Grand - over the weekend. City Developments Limited (CDL) yesterday sold about 160 units out of 240 units released for the Whistler Grand condominium as at 5pm. Some 91 per cent of the buyers are Singaporeans, with foreigners and Singapore permanent...

The Lease Buyback scheme can give singles more housing options

Two trends are reshaping Singapore’s housing landscape. Today, almost 1 in 6 Singapore resident is 65 or older. That’s 548,000 senior citizens. By 2030, every 1 in 4 residents will be 65 and above – residents who might want to unlock the value of their homes for retirement income or downgrade to a smaller house after their children have moved out. Rising singlehood is the second...

Analysts expect Marina View site to create buzz

Cooling measures or not, the Marina View white site made available for application under the Government Land Sales (GLS) reserve list will be keenly deliberated on by developers, thanks to its central location and its potential to yield several hundred hotel rooms amid the easing supply of future hotel rooms. The site could fetch top bids of between S$1,380 and S$1,650 per square foot per plot ratio...

Singapore ousts Hong Kong in price gain of luxury homes

Singapore has nudged out Hong Kong to top a luxury real-estate ranking despite a slew of cooling measures to tame its property market. Luxury home prices in Singapore rose 13 per cent in the quarter ended Sept 30 from a year earlier, according to Knight Frank's Prime Global Cities Index. Gains were driven in part by the limited availability of high-end properties. Hong Kong fell to 14th place with...

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