Woodlands residents can look forward to a closer experience with nature, with the opening of Phase Two of Admiralty Park - a 20-hectare nature area. Home to more than 100 species of animals and plants, the nature area at the Admiralty Park is the biggest nature area within a park in Singapore. Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Minister for Health and Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC, officiated at the event on...
Welcome to your new home. You have reach the top, literally. Step in, and be swept away by the impeccable landscaping and panoramic, breathtaking view that is the privilege of the rare few who will make their home at Lush on Holland Hill. The address is distinctly prestigious, and the status, enviable. The development comprises 56 modern, spacious units in yeo towering 12-storey blocks against unique,...
The next six months look set to be bumpy for the private residential property sector, with market watchers predicting prices to head south by about 10 per cent. And real estate agents and developers are likely to get creative in driving sales and keeping costs down. Builder and developer United Engineers will focus on infrastructural projects elsewhere in the region, while the Singapore property market...
Sim Lian Land has been awarded the tender for an industrial site at Ubi Avenue 4. The company submitted a bid of S$26.3 million for the 60-year lease site. The site has an area of 11,491.5 square metres and a maximum permissible gross plot ratio of 2.5. It can be developed into a range of clean and light industrial uses. Source : Channel NewsAsia - 3 Oct...
The Ministry of National Development (MND) has decided to proceed with a dormitory development at the former school site at Serangoon Gardens for manufacturing and services workers. The capacity will be capped at 600 for a start. MND will consider increasing to a maximum of 1,000 in future if there's a need and after further consultations. It adds that various measures to address residents' concerns...
Despite the various mitigating measures being proposed, some residents in Serangoon Gardens did not take too well to news that a foreign workers' dormitory is going to be set up in the area. The dormitory will be at the former Serangoon Garden Technical School school site, just right across the road from the residents. There is going to be additional fencing to keep workers in as well as planters to...
For the first time, heritage structures such as bridges and towers will be included under a national programme to conserve Singapore's architectural heritage, and Anderson Bridge is one of six bridges named for conservation in 2008. The others are the Elgin Bridge at Boat Quay, the Cavenagh Bridge just outside Fullerton Hotel, the Ord, Read and Crawford Bridges. At the 2008 URA Architectural Heritage...
After 4-1/2 years, prices dip 1.8%; turmoil may force owners’ hands THE tide has finally turned, in one analyst’s words. After more than four years, or17 consecutive quarters, of growth since early 2004, the prices of private homes posted their first decline of 1.8 per cent. And coming as this does amid a period of global financial turmoil, the flash figures herald challenging times ahead for home...
Demand for high-end units eases, agents say rents likely to fall WITH banks around the world falling like nine pins, it’s not surprising that demand for top-quality Singapore office space is easing off. The estate agents are agreed: Rents have already peaked, and occupancy levels are falling - with rents likely to follow. According to a report by property firm CB Richard Ellis yesterday, Grade A rents...
THE $10.47-million contract for Singapore’s first zero-energy building has been awarded to local firm ACP Construction. Work to retrofit an existing building at the BCA Academy along Braddell Road starts this month and should be completed by next year. As announced earlier, everything in the building, from the lights and air-conditioning, to the water in the toilets, will be sourced from renewable...