According to the latest DTZ Research report which highlights real estate investment activity, real estate investment activity in Singapore dopped by 50 per cent in the first quarter of this year to S$3.7 billion. This compared to the previous quarter where investment sales hit S$7.4 billion. Reasons include investors remain mindful of rising business costs, global economic uncertainties and a weaker...
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Property investment sales for this quarter so far have plunged to a two-year low of about S$3.4 billion as of 12 March 2012, but Q1 figures could still rise to around S$3.8 billion, according to Savills Singapore. The 12 March tally is notably 57 percent lower than Q4 2011’s S$7.7 billion and 60 percent down from the S$8.4 billion recorded in Q1 2011. Savills said the decline of investment sales may be...
Singapore's real estate investment sales hit S$28.6 billion in 2011. This is slightly more than the S$27.9 billion worth of deals concluded in 2010. This is based on data compiled by property consultancy firm DTZ Research on transactions that are above S$5 million in value. It excludes the S$1.1 billion worth of transactions in single residential units and lots that cannot be redeveloped or subdivided...
DTZ has downgraded this year’s property investment forecast in the Asia Pacific region from S$158 billion to S$135 billion. “The downward revision comes as a result of policy initiatives in China to cool the property market, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and fears of a global economic slowdown, which is leading to reduced investment flows,” said DTZ in a report. However, the real estate...
Global direct real estate investment volumes rose 7 per cent on-quarter in the second quarter to hit over US$101 billion. This is according to research findings from Jones Lang LaSalle, which added that on a year-on-year basis, the investment volumes jumped a staggering 47 per cent. However, in Asia Pacific, Jones Lang said there was a sizable on-quarter fall of 30 per cent in volumes to US$18.5...
Investment sentiment in the Singapore property market remains positive but there are few core assets for sale, according to property consultants DTZ Research. It found that investment in properties held firm in the second quarter, with S$8.3 billion of value transacted, higher than the S$8 billion worth of transactions recorded in the first quarter. On a year-on-year basis, DTZ said investment sales in...
The property investment sales market continues to manifest upbeat sentiment, amassing a healthy sum of S$9.77 billion in the first quarter of the year, riding through the Government's property cooling measures, the political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and the recent catastrophe in Japan, consultants Colliers International said. In a report issued yesterday, Colliers said the property...
After last year's robust performance, Singapore property investment sales continued to remain active in the first quarter of this year. According to property consultant CBRE, this quarter's total investment sales have amounted to S$7.23 billion so far - 66.6 per cent higher than the S$4.34 billion registered in the first quarter last year. The private investment sales market has accounted for S$4.36...
Property consultant Colliers International said Singapore's property investment sales market strengthened further in the last quarter of 2010, ringing in sales of S$12.26 billion. That was up 29 per cent quarter-on-quarter, but remained lower compared to the record S$12.69 billion chalked up during the peak in the third quarter of 2007. Colliers released the information in its latest Knowledge Report on...
Property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle says Singapore is seeing one of the world's strongest growth in real estate investment transactions. In its Global Market Perspective report, it says shortages of prime assets for sale are constraining investment volumes. This has led to Singapore, Australia, Sweden and China experiencing the highest property investment growth as those countries have robust economic...