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Additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD) of 35 per cent now will apply on any transfer of residential property into a living trust occurring on or after May 9, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on Sunday (May 8).  ABSD will be payable even if there is no identifiable beneficial owner at the time the residential property is transferred into a trust, MOF said in a media release late on...

Following the government's clampdown on Monday on the re-issuance of options to purchase (OTPs) by private housing developers, the head of the developers' body has urged the government to urgently consider allowing first-time upgraders from a HDB flat to a private property to defer payment of the additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) till six months after the completion of the private property. A similar...

Married Singaporean couples who bought or plan to buy a second home over the next few weeks will now have more time to sell their first property and claim back their Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD). This is part of the Government's temporary relief measures for the property sector for individuals affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the current ABSD regime, a Singaporean married couple...

If a citizen can afford a second or third property through the existing Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) regime, should he also have to pay Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD), Mr Christopher De Souza asked in Parliament on Monday (Jan 25). The Member of Parliament for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC called for the Government to consider removing ABSD for Singaporeans, while retaining the TDSR for...

Two hundred and fifty two residential property transactions by foreigners have been exempted from additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) since it was first introduced as a property cooling measure on 8 December 2011. These foreign buyers are from the US, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland which are countries having free trade agreements with Singapore. In a written response to a...

Malaysians reclaimed top spot among foreigners buying Singapore properties despite the tough cooling measures introduced in December last year. They have overtaken the Chinese buyers. A report by DTZ Research revealed that Malaysians had a high of 362 transactions, marking a 28 percent share among foreign buyers due to the larger number of Malaysian PRs in the country. In the same report, it is revealed...