Property consultancy DTZ said on Thursday investment sales here tripled in the third quarter of this year. Total property investment value in the July to September period jumped 200 per cent on-quarter to S$2.3 billion. Historically though, the figure is still below the S$4 billion to S$12 billion mark achieved quarterly between 2005 and 2008. DTZ attributed the increase in investment sales in the third...
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Property investment sales rose 13 per cent between July and September to S$1.8 billion, compared to the previous quarter. The improved performance was buoyed by better market and investor sentiments. In its latest report, property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle said the residential sector dominated investment sales, accounting for 52 per cent of total sales. Investment sales in the residential sector...
Billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi, who made his fortune from mobile-phone services in India, is planning to invest US$100 million ($142.5 million) in distressed assets including the island resorts on Batam and Bintan neighboring Singapore. Modi, chairman of Singapore-based Spice Global with interests from telecommunications to financial services, said he is in talks to buy stakes in all the resorts on the...
A STRONG revival in property sentiment has propelled real estate investment sales in Singapore to surge in the second quarter to hit a total of $1.35 billion, according to latest statistics in a report by Colliers International. This was the highest level achieved since the third quarter of last year, said the property consultancy firm yesterday. The residential sector made up the bulk of the activity,...
Property consultancy Colliers International said the Singapore investment sales market experienced a surge of activity in the second quarter this year. Both the private and public sectors garnered investment sales transactions totalling S$1.35 billion from April to June, nearly four times higher than the previous quarter. Colliers said the renewed buzz in the investment market was supported mainly by...
The property rush continues to grab the headlines with queues at new launches and crowds at show flats. Perhaps a sobering reminder would be the still declining prices based on the Urban Development Authority’s (URA) flash estimates released earlier this Wednesday. The price index for private residential property is still falling, albeit at a slower rate. Overall residential prices fell by 5.9% in 2Q09...
There has been a huge spike in activity in the investment sales market in Singapore during the second quarter this year. According to property consultancy CB Richard Ellis, total property investment sales in the period so far have amounted to some S$954 million. The amount is up by more than three times from the previous quarter. CBRE said Thursday the good showing was due to the sharp recovery in the...
S'poreans are putting their money in overseas property PROPERTY buyers are not just snapping up properties in Singapore but are also looking overseas, in yet another sign that property investments are still in vogue. Last weekend, marketing agents Top Leaders Realty and Jones Lang Lasalle launched private residential properties in Chennai and London, respectively. Both projects garnered relatively...
Global real estate investors are looking to tap on to growing opportunities in Asian markets. Experts speaking at an industry event, Cityscape Asia 2009, in Singapore on Tuesday said China currently offers the most potential. This is due to a number of good valuations available in the market, and the economy's positive growth outlook. China's industrial property sector has been hit hard by the global...
Singapore's property market is among the worst-performing in Asia for the first quarter of this year. A report by property consultant CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) found that Singapore's prime office rents recorded the region's worst contraction. Compared with the first quarter of 2008, prime office rents in Singapore fell by 34 per cent, followed by Hong Kong which was down by 32 per cent. In terms of retail...