PRICES of completed private apartments and condos rose 0.3 per cent in April 2016 over March 2016. This is according to National University of Singapore's (NUS) flash estimate for its Overall Singapore Residential Price Index for April released on Monday. This contrasts with a 1.1 per cent month-on-month (m-o-m) decline in the index in March, based on the revised index value for that month. The...
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Singapore's property market may be closer to a bottom than Hong Kong, according to LaSalle Investment Management, which manages more than US$58 billion in real estate funds. Governments in Asia's two most expensive residential markets have imposed curbs in recent years to tame prices and improve affordability. As demand has dropped amid a slowdown in the region's economies, home prices in both cities...
City Developments Ltd, Singapore's second-largest developer, may seek to buy offices this year as rising interest rates makes such assets cheaper worldwide. "We are coming into a very good time for acquisitions," Grant Kelley, chief executive officer of City Developments, said in an interview in Singapore. "The long-term trend line for assets for the next 12 to 24 months could be deflationary because...
SC Capital Partners, a Singapore private equity real estate firm with US$1.2 billion in assets, said recent price declines make investing in Hong Kong property attractive. Founder Suchad Chiaranussati said he expects the Singapore government to maintain residential curbs in the city-state until the end of next year. Hong Kong offers more value after prices for homes, offices and hotels dropped, he said...
Singapore's second-largest developer has taken a potshot at the prices of prime land in the country, describing them as exorbitant and predicting that they'll only get even more expensive in years to come. "In land-scarce Singapore, it is increasingly difficult to secure prime land of this scale and even if available, the asking price for land alone is exorbitantly high," City Developments Ltd said in...
FRASERS Centrepoint Ltd (FCL) chief executive Lim Ee Seng deems it a "no-brainer" that residential demand will continue to dwindle as buyers become increasingly jittery about job security and property cooling measures remain intact. His comments followed the dismal showing of the 628-unit Parc Life EC project in Sembawang, which FCL is jointly developing with Keong Hong Holdings. Since its launch during...
The number of condominiums and private apartments sold on the resale market last month hit a three-year high, even as prices edged up during the month, according to a local property index. A total of 689 non-landed private residential units were resold in April, a 17.6 per cent increase from the previous month and the highest since May 2013, SRX Property said. On a year-on-year basis, resale volume was...
Rental rates for Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats continued their downward trend in April, while those for non-landed private properties remained flat with minor fluctuations outside of the Core Central Region. Overall rental prices for private apartments were constant from March, although private apartment rents in the city fringes increased by 0.1 per cent and they decreased by 0.1 per cent...
RESALE prices of non-landed private homes in Singapore rose 0.5 per cent in April 2016 over the previous month, based on SRX Property's flash estimates for last month released on Tuesday. This follows a 0.1 per cent month-on-month gain for March 2016 - a revision from the 0.3 per cent increase that SRX Property had indicated earlier based on its flash estimates for March. Giving a geographical...
DEVELOPER sentiment remains weak, according to the latest NUS-Redas Real Estate Sentiment Index, with the composite sentiment index remaining below 5. The index (which is a derived indicator for the overall real estate market sentiment in Singapore) inched up to 3.8 in the first quarter from 3.5 in Q4 last year. Correspondingly, the current sentiment index rose to 3.9 from 3.6, and the future sentiment...