A residential site at Bishan Street 14 has attracted nine bids. The top bid of S$505.1 million came from Allamanda Residential Development, a wholly-owned subsidiary of property developer CapitaLand. That is about 3.1 per cent higher than the second bid jointly placed by Singland Homes, UOL Venture Investments, and ORIX Investment and Management. Analysts had expected CapitaLand to submit a strong bid...
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The Ministry of National Development (MND) will find it hard deciding on land supply to be allocated for private housing projects in 1H2013, said property experts. It will have to balance several factors such as looming supply glut, record home sales, an economic slowdown and developers’ keen appetite for land. “The quandary the authorities will face is that in the short run, demand chases supply....
Private resale home prices rose by 1 per cent in October, marking a similar rate of increase seen in September. The figures are part of the latest Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI) flash estimates published by the Institute of Real Estate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS IRES). In its report, NUS IRES said that property cooling measures have had "transient effects" on housing...
Investment company Haiyi Holdings on Tuesday said it would be making a mandatory unconditional cash offer for all of the shares in property developer Singxpress Land after a conversion of its perpetual preference shares into ordinary equity would result in its owning 62.2 per cent of the target company. But the offer by Haiyi of S$0.0118 cent per share offer is 21.3 per cent below the last transacted...
The government is expected to offer a steady supply of land for residential developments in the first half of 2013. Property-watchers said the sites offered this year have seen strong interest from developers, pushing land prices up by an average of some 10 per cent on-year. To meet demand, the government has ramped up its land sales programme this year. For both the first and the second half of 2012,...
Large flats in mature estates have proven to be the most popular among home buyers in the November Build-To-Order (BTO) exercise. In the last BTO exercise for the year, there were three first-time buyers for each four-room flat in Toa Payoh. The same goes for five-room flats in Bedok. In Bedok's Fengshan GreenVille, there were 3.8 first-time buyers and 51.6 second-time buyers for each five-room...
All one- and two-room owner-occupiers of HDB homes do not need to pay property tax in 2013, similar to 2012. For a majority of other HDB flat types, the property tax bill for 2013 will increase by between S$40 and $50, after taking into account a new S$40 rebate. The increase in property tax comes after the revision of Annual Values (AVs) of HDB flats with effect from 1 January 2013, reflecting the rise...
Far East Orchard - a unit of Far East Organization, Singapore's largest privately held developer by assets - said on Monday it planned to buy Straits Trading Co's hospitality management business and stakes in the company's hotel assets, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Far East Orchard said it signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Straits Trading for the proposal, which also involves...
The first Public Perception Survey by the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) has found that most consumers are satisfied with their property agents. Eight out of 10 said they were satisfied with the conduct and services provided. Seven out of 10 planned to recommend their agents to others. Top of the list was service excellence with agents being contactable, responsive to queries and courteous at all...
The number of private home sales in Singapore could drop by more than 20 percent in 2013 after “spectacular” increases this year. David Neubronner, Head of Residential Project Sales for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), issued the warning this week, suggesting that the number of sales this year, which is expected to reach 22,000 units, will correct to “more healthy levels of about 16,000 units” in a...