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Jump in May home sales lifts hopes for second half

MAY'S firm pick-up in developers' property sales has prompted consultants to predict a take-off in the second half of the year as more new launches come onstream. While the year got off to a slow start - with residential launches lagging that of last year - developers' sales survey by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for May showed developers sold 53 per cent more private homes (1,121 units) than a...

Sales of new private homes jump hit 1,121 units in May

Developer sales of private homes in May rose by more than half over April as the number of new units launched also saw a sizeable increase. The 1,121 private homes, excluding executive condominiums (ECs), that developers moved in May was up by 53.1 per cent from the 732 units in the month before, according to data from URA on Monday. This was the best monthly take-up since developers sold 1,246 new...

New private home sales hit 9-month high in May on deluge of new launches

Sales of new private homes rose to the highest in nine months in May thanks to a deluge of new launches by developers, with suburban projects proving to be the most popular. Developers sold 1,121 private homes in May, an increase of 53.1 per cent from April and 7.9 per cent from the same month last year, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday (Jun...

Emerging prime areas challenge traditional districts 9, 10, 11

Singapore's traditional prime districts 9, 10 and 11 are being challenged in their position as the upper echelons of the private housing market not only by new prime areas such as Marina Bay but also by what List Sotheby's International Realty terms "emerging prime areas" such as Tanjong Pagar and Ophir-Rochor Beach Road area. The firm's analysis of transactions captured by the Urban Redevelopment...

More luxury condos to cross S$4,000 psf

Luxury residential homes crossing the S$4,000 per square foot (psf) mark in Singapore’s prime Orchard Road area have been few and far between in recent years. However this could change given the recent spate of record-setting land sales and upcoming launches in the district. Shun Tak Holdings (a Hong Kong-listed company) said on Wednesday that it has purchased two freehold redevelopment sites for a...

Far East’s Oasia Hotel Downtown wins best tall building award

Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore's Tanjong Pagar has been named this year's Best Tall Building Worldwide by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a global authority on tall buildings and future cities that confers the award annually. The 27-storey skyscraper by developer Far East Organization and designed by award-winning architecture firm Woha features a plant-covered facade of red...

Park House in Orchard fetches record S$2,910 psf ppr price in collective sale

Park House has fetched a record collective sale price of S$2,910 per sq ft per plot ratio, marketing agent CBRE said on Wednesday. The freehold District 10 development at 21 Orchard Boulevard sold for S$375.5 million, translating to S$2,910 psf ppr on the maximum allowable gross floor area of 129,035 sq ft, excluding the 10 per cent bonus for balconies. This new benchmark price beats the previous...

Singapore’s private and HDB rents both rise 0.2% in May as volumes drop

Rentals in May inched up just 0.2 per cent for both private and HDB homes from the previous month, as volumes continued their decline, according to flash estimates released by real estate portal SRX Property on Wednesday. Year-on-year, rents from non-landed private rentals increased 0.8 per cent, and the May showing was 18.9 per cent lower compared to its peak in January 2013. Compared to April,...

Lakeside Apartments owners ask for S$240m

LAKESIDE Apartments is now on the market with a reserve price of S$240 million — the latest to wade into the wave of collective sales here. More than 80 per cent of owners at the 134,176 sq ft site in the Jurong Lake District area have agreed to sell and the collective sale tender was launched on Tuesday. This means each of the owners at the 120-unit development could stand to get S$2 million each....

Singapore condo resale prices up 1.2% to hit new high in May: SRX

Prices of private condominiums and apartments continued their climb in May to hit a new high, although volumes slightly dipped according to flash data from real estate portal SRX Property released on Tuesday. This comes as the monthly price change for April 2018 was revised sharply upwards to 1.2 per cent, from the earlier estimate of 0.6 per cent. Resale prices of non-landed private properties rose...