Property investment sales rose 13 per cent between July and September to S$1.8 billion, compared to the previous quarter. The improved performance was buoyed by better market and investor sentiments. In its latest report, property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle said the residential sector dominated investment sales, accounting for 52 per cent of total sales. Investment sales in the residential sector...
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A STRONG revival in property sentiment has propelled real estate investment sales in Singapore to surge in the second quarter to hit a total of $1.35 billion, according to latest statistics in a report by Colliers International. This was the highest level achieved since the third quarter of last year, said the property consultancy firm yesterday. The residential sector made up the bulk of the activity,...
Property consultancy Colliers International said the Singapore investment sales market experienced a surge of activity in the second quarter this year. Both the private and public sectors garnered investment sales transactions totalling S$1.35 billion from April to June, nearly four times higher than the previous quarter. Colliers said the renewed buzz in the investment market was supported mainly by...
There has been a huge spike in activity in the investment sales market in Singapore during the second quarter this year. According to property consultancy CB Richard Ellis, total property investment sales in the period so far have amounted to some S$954 million. The amount is up by more than three times from the previous quarter. CBRE said Thursday the good showing was due to the sharp recovery in the...
Singapore's property market is among the worst-performing in Asia for the first quarter of this year. A report by property consultant CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) found that Singapore's prime office rents recorded the region's worst contraction. Compared with the first quarter of 2008, prime office rents in Singapore fell by 34 per cent, followed by Hong Kong which was down by 32 per cent. In terms of retail...
Singapore's investment property market was quiet in the first quarter of the year, as the global recession continues. The first three months of 2009 saw only 10 investment transactions, compared to 15 in the fourth quarter of last year. All the deals were below S$40 million. Real estate adviser DTZ said all the investment sales in the first quarter took place in the private sector. This is partly due...
The value of property investment sales in Singapore hit a record low in the fourth quarter of 2008. In its latest report, real estate consultancy Colliers International said total investment sales in the three months to December fell by 93 per cent on-year to nearly S$577 million. This is the lowest since the property market picked up four years ago. It also represents a drop of 68.8 per cent from the...
The fallout from the US sub-prime crisis has filtered down to the property market in Singapore. Property consultancy CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) says total investment sales in Singapore properties fell 70 per cent from 2007, to S$17.83 billion this year. CBRE says one year on, the crisis in the US has made investors of Singapore properties more cautious. But the sharp slowdown in transaction volumes was...
Property investment sales rose nearly 3 percent to S$8.36 billion in the first quarter compared to the previous three months. But this was still 36.6 percent below the peak of S$13.2 billion worth of sales amassed in the third quarter last year. This is according to latest figures from property consultants Colliers International. Colliers said with the exception of the commercial and industrial sectors,...
Property investment sales have hit a record. New data shows more than S$5.7b worth of deals were completed in the Q1 of 2006. And consultants CB Richard Ellis said 61% of this was in the commercial sector. The figure was inflated by the acquisition of Raffles City by CapitaMall Trust and CapitaCommercial Trust, for S$2.2b - from their parent company. Residential investment sales totalled S$1.7b in Q1,...