budget 2014

Too early to ease property cooling measures, says Tharman

The Singapore government plans to keep property market cooling measures in place for the time being, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Friday, even as real-estate prices have shown signs of stabilising after large increases in recent years. "Given the run-up in prices in the last four years, it is too early to start relaxing our measures," Mr. Tharman told...