Singapore property is likely to retain its lustre as a preferred choice for long-term wealth creation due to the city-state's regional hub status, solid growth prospects and Asians' deep-seated desire to own property. Analysts gave this affirmation as the dust starts to settle on the latest cooling measures which took effect on July 6. The amended rules saw higher Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD)...
Private home sales by developers in Singapore surged 55 per cent in July from a year earlier to a 16-month high, boosted by panic buyers who rushed to snap up properties the night before new cooling measures took effect early last month. Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), developers sold 1,724 units in July, compared with 1,112 units in the same month a year earlier, Urban Redevelopment Authority...
With less than a third of collective sale sites sold so far this year and no deal inked since property cooling measures took effect more than a month ago, one property analyst has declared the current cycle of en bloc fever to be over. More than 30 collective sale sites have failed to secure a buyer since January, according to data from real estate agencies Huttons Asia, Savills and Colliers. "This...
Rentals for condominiums and private apartments continued to stabilize in July while the more volatile rents for HDB flats reversed direction and rose, with both markets enjoying a pickup in activity, according to SRX yesterday. Flash estimates from SRX real estate portal show rents for non-landed private homes saw no month-on-month change in July after inching down 0.1 per cent in June. Private...
The group chief executive of City Developments Ltd (CDL), Sherman Kwek, says the impact of the property cooling measures rolled out last month will be rather different from that in the 2010-to-early-2013 period. Despite successive rounds of cooling measures being rolled out during those years, private home buyers managed to get round the negativity and continue pushing on, he recalled. Developers...
Resale prices of condominiums and private apartments climbed 1 per cent in July from the previous month, as the number of transactions dipped by 2.8 per cent, based on flash estimates from real estate portal SRX Property. Resale prices increased by 12.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis, while transaction volumes went down by 1.5 per cent. Prices have climbed 9 per cent since the beginning of this...
The recent property cooling measures in Singapore has once again diverted the spotlight from the private residential market to the shophouse market. Shophouse clusters can be classified into two main submarkets. Those in the central business district (CBD) are in areas such as Chinatown, Tanjong Pagar, Upper Circular Road and Boat Quay, while the rest are farther out in places like Kampong Glam, Little...
The real estate industry's business sentiment dived after the latest round of property cooling measures. These findings came from separate quarterly reports released on Tuesday by the Economic Development Board and the Department of Statistics, which looked at business expectations for the second half of the year. Real estate was the only industry within the services sector where firms felt that...
The halting of an en bloc purchase by Tee Land reflects the turn in sentiment among property developers in Singapore who have begun redoing their sums on the back of the latest cooling measures, industry observers told Channel NewsAsia. This cautious approach is especially the case for smaller players that may not have the same financial muscle as their bigger rivals, they added. However, while the...
Prices of completed non-landed private homes climbed at a slower pace in June, appreciating 0.7 per cent month-on-month, according to the National University of Singapore's (NUS) flash estimates for its Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI). In May, prices rose 1.6 per cent, up slightly from the preliminary estimate of 1.5 per cent. The slower pace of increase applied to most segments of the...
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