In property-crazed Singapore, owning real estate isn't always the high-yielding investment you might think. The rate of return for private apartments in the city-state has slipped since 2011, when measures to cool the market were introduced by the government. In fact, some units now have a lower yield than Singapore's national pension plan, the Central Provident Fund (CPF), which has a minimum fixed...
Singapore property investment sales could increase by 6 per cent to S$31.3 billion in 2020 from S$29.5 billion in 2019, real estate services firm Colliers International said in its latest report. Investment sales volumes fell 12.7 per cent last year "largely due to the pullback in the residential property sector as cooling measures continued to bite", said Colliers. The commercial property sector led...
Singapore's total real estate investment volume fell 31.8 per cent to S$22.83 billion as at Dec 13, the lowest volume since 2016, according to CBRE on Thursday. This was due to a slower collective sales market this year compared with a year ago. The previous year saw a few large collective sale sites being transacted, along with the award of two Government Land Sale (GLS) sites worth over a billion...
Singapore's real estate investment market has been ranked second in the Asia Pacific region in a real estate forecast jointly published by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This is due to a large number of major office deals in the last 12 months, with domestic investors being the biggest buyers, ULI and PwC said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The forecast report...
Investors are snapping up hotel assets in Singapore, where the average daily room rate is the highest in Asia, driven by a record number of leisure and corporate visitors. Eleven hotels valued at S$2.45 billion were sold in Singapore last year, four times the total in 2012, said property broker Savills. “We are seeing some pretty aggressive bidding just to get into Singapore,” said Mr Robert...
The property market here may be losing its shine, as Singapore falls out of the top five Asia-Pacific real estate investment destinations for next year in a joint survey of industry professionals by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The PwC-ULI report, Emerging Trends In Real Estate Asia Pacific, found that Singapore fell to seventh place for 2014 from third place this...
The recently imposed Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) on certain categories of residential properties had some analysts predicting a spillover of demand to non-residential properties like industrial, retail or office strata units, but the situation might not be as straightforward as it seems. Industrial strata units have always been an alternative investment to residential properties given its...
Despite the numerous Government policies to cool the property market in Singapore, the high-end residential segment has not been adversely affected. To begin with, the Government measures implemented thus far are targeted at the mass market, which has seen property values rising ahead of economic recovery. Based on Jones Lang LaSalle estimates, the average resale capital value for areas outside the prime...
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...
Recession woes have not deterred Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing from seeking out investment opportunities in Singapore's property market. The tycoon's Cheung Kong Holdings is aiming to increase its investments in the city-state. Justin Chiu, executive director, Cheung Kong Holdings, said: "Actually there are ample opportunities in Singapore right now, so we are looking at various locations. We hope...
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