Singapore escaped the downtrend that caught every other major national Asia Pacific (Apac) real estate market in the first quarter of this year, with commercial real estate investment jumping 72 per cent year-on-year to US$1.9 billion, data released by Real Capital Analytics (RCA) on Tuesday show. "While the last three months of 2018 were dominated by a handful of major deals in the industrial sector,...

Spaces, owned by flexible workspace provider IWG, has opened two new locations in Singapore, at TripleOne Somerset and Clarke Quay. This brings the number of locations it has to four, with plans to open an additional two more by year-end. The TripleOne Somerset branch has a blue-chip tenant list which includes luxury and lifestyle brands such as Gucci, Casio and Samsonite. It spans over 35,000 square...

Sloane Residences is a boutique development set within 2km of Orchard, Newton and Novena. Prestigious schools like ACS (Barker), ACS Junior, Raffles Girls School, SCGS and SJI are just a stone’s throw away. It is an intersection of modern convenience and an enriched quality of life, set in the midst of quiet tree-lined boulevards and the nearby leafy Goodwood Hill suburbs. This exclusive development is a...

The first housing project in Tengah's Garden District will be launched for sale in the Build-to-Order (BTO) exercise this month, said the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Monday (May 20). Garden District is the second of five housing districts in Tengah to be developed, after Plantation District. Unveiling plans for Garden District on Monday, HDB said it is expected to provide up to 6,500 new...

Despite the cooling measures introduced on July 5, 2018, Singapore's residential property market has stayed resilient and quarterly primary home sales rose in the last three quarters, to the surprise of many. In the first quarter of 2019, developers sold 1,838 new private homes, 16 per cent higher than the same period the previous year. Non-landed residential prices outside the core central region...

Singapore is the third most innovative city in the world, with innovation now an important part of real estate investment strategies, according to a new report from global property consultant JLL. The Republic, behind San Francisco and Tokyo, is supported by significant levels of foreign domestic investments, and a rapidly growing startup scene. It is a regional hub for R&D (research and development)...

HDB has put an executive condominium (EC) site at Canberra Link in Sembawang up for sale by public tender, it announced said on Thursday. The 99-year leasehold site is the only EC parcel of five confirmed list sites under the first half-2019 government land sales (GLS) programme. On the first half-2019 reserve list, there is one EC site at Fernvale Lane that can yield 525 units. Reserve list sites are...

Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) is looking to acquire a one third interest in Waterway Point, a large suburban mall located in Punggol, from its sponser Frasers Property in a S$440.6 million deal, it announced on Thursday. At the same time, FCT is launching an equity fund raising exercise, S$245.3 million of whose total proceeds will go towards partly financing the acquisition. The acquisition of...

Sales of private homes by developers fell 30.2 per cent in April from the previous month, following a sharp drop in the number of units launched. Excluding executive condominiums, developers in Singapore sold 735 units last month compared to the 1,054 units sold in March, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday (May 15). The number of units launched fell...

Central Provident Fund (CPF) members will continue to earn interest at 2.5 per cent per annum on their Ordinary Account (OA) and at 4 per cent per annum on their Special and Medisave accounts (SMA) between Jul 1 and Sep 30. The concessionary interest rate for Housing and Development Board (HDB) mortgage loans - pegged at 0.1 per cent above the OA interest rate - will remain unchanged at 2.6 per cent per...