Foreign ownership of landed homes here is set to be tightened, four years after the Residential Property Act was last revised. The latest changes to the law, tabled yesterday in Parliament, include more stringent penalties and come at a time when residential property prices have risen significantly while some fines and jail terms have been the same since 1974. The newest requirement is for Singaporeans...
Foreign Buyers
But acquisitions of private apartments and condos slip 7.4% in Q2 Foreigners including permanent residents bought 81 landed homes in Singapore in the second quarter of this year, up from 69 in Q1. And the Q2 figure is the strongest quarterly showing since Q2 2007, according to Knight Frank's analysis of URA Realis caveats information up to July 30. District 15, which includes Katong, Telok Kurau and East...
Proportion of buyers with an HDB address looks set to increase WITH foreign buyers pulling out of Singapore's property market on the back of deteriorating global economic conditions, Housing Development Board upgraders are forming an increasingly important group of buyers here. According to a recent DTZ analysis of private property caveats lodged in the third quarter, purchasers with HDB addresses make...
Non-landed residential market most likely to gain from influx of foreign talent, say CHUA YANG LIANG and JACQUELINE WONG SINGAPORE'S non-landed residential market put in a strong performance last year, sub-prime notwithstanding, driven by the luxury and prime segments whose resale capital values saw stunning year-on-year growth of 51.7 per cent and 50.6 per cent respectively. Lights, camera, action: Key...