Momentum of recovery in private residential rents also picked up PRIVATE home prices generally rose at a slightly slower pace in Q2 than they did in Q1, but latest official numbers show a broad-based growth in property prices - with stronger quarter-on-quarter gains for office, shop and industrial properties, as well as HDB resale flat prices in Q2 than in the first quarter. The momentum of recovery in...
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Private home prices in Singapore continued to trend up, but at a slower pace. Data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Friday showed that overall prices rose by 5.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2010, compared to 5.6 per cent in the first three months of the year. The increase pushed the residential property price index to an all-time high, surpassing the market peak of 181.4...
Private home prices in Singapore continued to trend up but at a slower pace. Data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority showed that overall prices rose by 5.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2010, compared to 5.6 per cent in the first three months of the year. This was marginally higher than the initial forecast of a 5.2 per cent climb for Q2 reported earlier this month. The increase pushed...
Sales in first half pass $1b mark, and demand unlikely to flag: Report THE priciest homes just keep getting pricier, with the values of upmarket, prime-area bungalows rocketing this year, and sales totalling more than $1 billion in the first six months. And just to underline the boom in what are called 'good class bungalows', a Nassim Road house sold in April for $43.5 million, that is $1,800 psf and...
Owning a waterfront home appears to be an aspiration among homeowners, going by the record prices at Sentosa Cove and the overwhelming response to the latest launch of waterfront HDB homes in Punggol. Over in the East, there has been growing interest in the reasonably priced waterfront homes overlooking Bedok Reservoir near the Tanah Merah MRT Station and good schools like Temasek Polytechnic and Anglican...
Non-traditional prime areas have emerged as the property boom spreads to the suburbs For years, Districts 9, 10 and 11 - covering Orchard, Holland, Newton and Bukit Timah - have been the must-have residential areas in Singapore. But as the recent property boom spreads to the suburbs, a number of newly popular districts have emerged outside these traditional prime areas. Developers with a keen eye...
Sales picking up after quiet June with World Cup, school holidays SALES have stayed fairly hot at a new condominium in Bukit Timah with 114 flats in the 172-unit estate now sold in just over a week, including 24 of the 30 pricey penthouses. Ten apartments were snapped up at the official launch of the Terrene yesterday following the 104 that have been sold since a private preview started on July 8, UOL...
iLiv@Grange - a 20,325 sqft development nestled in the distinguished Grange Road neighbourhood, just mere minutes away from Orchard Road. Singapore's first designer residences with landscapes and interiors by 'yoo Inspired by Starck' - iLiv@Grange will turn urban living into an opulent art. A luxury-end project, it boasts the design of yoo inspired by Starck for its apartments and Italy's Mercurio...
More developers are engaging world-class architects as buyers get more sophisticated It is hard to miss the striking high-rise residential projects in central Singapore, some designed by internationally renowned architects. In recent years, these internationally acclaimed names include German Ole Scheeren - who was behind The Interlace in the Alexandra Road area - and American Daniel Libeskind, who...
Trends in other cities show demand for luxury apartments in S'pore may grow yet Singapore has long been seen as a safe investment haven - and foreigners are responding by snapping up property across the island. About 23,000 non-landed private homes have been bought by foreigners since 2007 - of which about 35 per cent are high-end homes in districts 1, 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11 - based on the Urban...