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Queens Peak sells 250 units; Parc Riviera moves over 100 units

LOCATION still trumps many factors when it comes to buying a property, going by the weekend launch of two massive 99-year-leasehold projects. Thanks to its popular Queenstown location, Queens Peak at Dundee Road saw a take-up rate of 34 per cent as it sold 250 units of the available 736 units during its first launch weekend. Some 242 units were moved on the first day on Saturday, with one and...

Forest Woods at Lorong Lew Lian

Forest Woods is situated not more than a heartbeat away from Serangoon Central, this upcoming new launch sits in between Lorong Lew Lian and Upper Serangoon Road. The condominium units that are of the higher level will have a far and fascinating views overlooking the stretch of low rise landed enclave. Forest Woods boasts a beautiful living facade featuring a lush landscape and a 75 metre lap pool which is...

Parc Riviera’s unusual pricing scheme expected to stir interest

LEVEL 15 is probably the "luckiest" floor in new condominium project Parc Riviera at West Coast Vale, thanks to an unconventional pricing strategy by its developer. In what could be unprecedented for new property launches, EL Development is adopting a "one-tier pricing" scheme for the first day of sales this Saturday for each unit type from the lowest floor to the 15th floor of the 36-storey...

270 units at The Alps Residences sold

MCC Land, the Chinese developer of the 626-unit The Alps Residences in Tampines, sold 270 units on the project's launch day on Sunday, the company said in a media statement. The one-bedroom and two-bedroom units made up 88 per cent of the units sold. Prices of the one-bedroom units were between S$491,000 and S$538,000; those of two-bedroom units went for at least S$693,000, and for as much as...

Crowds throng showflats of two new projects

THOUSANDS of potential buyers thronged the showflats of private condominium projects Forest Woods and The Alps Residences over the weekend when they were first opened for preview. MCC Land's spokesman said some 6,000 visitors were recorded over Saturday and Sunday, attributing this to a lack of new condo launches in Tampines since the launch of The Santorini, also a MCC Land project, in 2014. More...

TwentyOne Angullia Park

The latest addition to Orchard’s dynamic skyline, TwentyOne Angullia Park reinterprets urban tropical living. Designed in the midst of the lush greenery of Orchard Boulevard, each level brings out different vistas of the much beloved district in one prestigious address you could call home. Designed to reinterpret high-rise urban tropical living, Anguilla Park takes a pure, pristine and pragmatic design...

Stars of Kovan

The phrase “living the high life” will be actualized with the completion of the brand new mixed development – Stars of Kovan. Bagging the last piece of vacant land on Upper Serangoon Road, this property is poised to attract many a buyers on account of its exclusivity alone, if nothing else. The ideal location of being in the heart of Kovan, however, is not the only reason that Stars of Kovan has...

Condo sales slump in August amid fewer property launches

The private home market returned to the doldrums in August, with sales of new condominiums down 56.6 per cent from the previous month, according to data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released on Thursday (Sep 15). Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), property developers sold 473 units in August, less than half of the 1,091 units sold in July. Including ECs, 805 units were sold, down...

Developers’ EC sales shine in dull August

EXECUTIVE condominiums (ECs) turned out to be best selling projects in August amid a lack of new residential project launches, with developers' sales of ECs this year already surpassing that for the whole of last year. Last month, ECs took up 41 per cent of the total 805 residential units sold by developers in August. Excluding ECs, some 473 private residential units were sold by developers in August,...

Private home sales rebound strongly in July

Sales of new private homes rebounded last month as more projects were launched in July. Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), property developers sold 1,091 units in July, around double the 536 units sold in June, data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed on Monday (Aug 15). Including ECs, 1,921 units were sold, up from June’s 768 units. Of the sites launched, private development...