real-estate

Prices of private homes in Singapore are expected to show modest growth over the next two years, riding on macro-prudential measures and stable mortgage performance, anchored by strong household finances. This is according to the latest findings from Fitch Ratings' Global Housing and Mortgage Outlook report. Overall, the rating agency expects nominal home price growth to remain at about 2 per cent in...

Resale prices for non-landed private residential properties in Singapore dipped slightly in November after two straight months of increase. Sales volumes also declined, according to flash figures from real estate portal SRX Property on Tuesday. Condominium resale prices fell 0.1 per cent in November from the previous month, compared with a 0.8 per cent rise in October. Volumes, meanwhile, fell 7.2 per...

Rents for non-landed private homes in Singapore rose in November from the previous month, while those for HDB flats slipped, though they were both higher as compared to a year ago. Overall condo rents increased 1.2 per cent from October, and is up by 4.6 per cent year on year. However, they are still 16 per cent below their peak in January 2013. Rents in the suburbs, or the outside central region...

With private property prices increasing at a faster rate than wage growth, property experts are saying that the affordability gap for private homes could further widen for Singaporeans. Professor Sumit Agarwal from the National University of Singapore Business School said that the divide between income growth and residential property price increases could grow bigger, with technology set to displace...

Singapore has a property glut that could take years to clear, threatening to kill a nascent price recovery amid an already uncertain economic outlook. The city-state had an overhang of 31,948 units as of Sept 30, according to the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Sales have averaged about 2,500 homes per quarter this year, and at that rate it will take almost four years to clear the backlog, according to...

Developers continue to jump on the hotel-conversion bandwagon, with Fragrance Group for its flagship office building in Alexandra Road and Lian Beng for Wilkie Edge among the latest to have received nods from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The trend is being fuelled by the rise in hotel land values and a perceived shortage of hotel room supply on the island; this follows URA generally having...

You'll build and they'll come? Well, don't bet on it. That's what Singapore's authorities seem to be telling property developers, who are flooding the market with new homes. The builders themselves are getting nervous about the glut. But everyone — the prospective homeowner, the seller and the government — is actually lucky. A minor bubble got pricked in time, with exorbitant duties now charged...

The government is holding land supply for private homes steady for the first half of 2020, which should keep the residential market stable amid a big supply of unsold units. It said on Tuesday that it will keep the supply of private housing units on the confirmed list for the H12020 government land sales (GLS) programme broadly similar to that for H22019. The Ministry of National Development (MND)...

The government is keeping the supply of private residential units mostly unchanged for the first-half 2020 Government Land Sales (GLS) Programme, the Ministry of National Development (MND) said on Tuesday morning. This comes as the government has decided to keep the supply of private residential units on the confirmed list for the H1 2020 GLS "broadly similar" to that for the H2 2019 GLS programme....

Singapore’s private residential prices appear to have decoupled since 2013 from the global chase for yields, a fresh study by the IMF showed. This is as macroprudential measures undertaken by the Singapore regulators in recent years targeted foreign buyers and speculators - the pacemakers behind the asset chase on Singapore properties, said the study, which was released within the annual Financial...