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60 Goodwood Residence units sold in past 2 weekends

However, at Sentosa Cove, buyers spoilt for choice from 3 projects on offer Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan's GuocoLand has sold 60 units at the freehold Goodwood Residence along prime Bukit Timah Road over the past two weekends at prices ranging from $2,355 psf to $2,555 psf for typical units. Mr Quek himself picked up the biggest unit in the 12-storey project - a penthouse - for $18.8 million. His...

District 15 still the top draw

WHETHER the property market is up or down, some areas are always popular, according to new analyses from property consultancy Savills Singapore. Its list of perennial property hot spots includes one surprise locale far from the city centre. District 15, which includes the Katong, Joo Chiat, Amber Road, Marine Parade and Tanjong Rhu areas, consistently topped all 28 regions in terms of the number of...

New home price index makes a light splash

Much-anticipated index shows private home prices edged up just 0.2% in February Prices of non-landed private homes held steady in February, a new index set up to track residential property prices here shows. The Singapore Residential Price Index, or SRPI, showed that private home prices across the island rose just 0.2 per cent month-on-month in February 2010, after climbing 2.2 per cent in January. But...

Sentosa Cove condos post strong sales

ABOUT a quarter of the 56 units released for The Residences at W Singapore Sentosa Cove were sold over the weekend for prices starting at $3.4 million. This upscale condominium, which is part of the trendy 'W' boutique hotel brand, is being built by City Developments. Its spokesman said the price achieved during the exclusive by-invitation-only preview was in line with its launch price of between $2,500...

The Waterline

Location: Poh Huat Road West/Yio Chu Kang Road (District 19) Tenure: Freehold Year of Completion: 2013 Total Units: 103 Unit Types: 1 bedroom ~  527 to 874 sqft (13 units) 2 bedroom ~  884 to 1,144 sqft (8 units) 3 bedroom ~ 1,020 to 1,661 sqft (48 units) 4 bedroom ~  1,515 to 3,087 sqft (16 units) Penthouse ~ 1,490 to 3,237 sqft (18 units) Contact us at [email protected] with the...

Waterbank @ Dakota

Living on the City’s Edge Waterfront@Dakota is just within a stone’s throw to the Dakota MRT Station and located at the edge of the city, close to everywhere. Close to the City. Just minutes away from all the hustle and bustle of city life at the Central Business District of Raffles Place & the new Downtown. Close to Sports & Recreation Venues. In close proximity to the new multi-million...

New price index more timely

Last Wednesday, the Institute of Real Estate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced that it had formulated an index called the Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI). It tracks prices of completed private non-landed homes month on month and will provide owners, investors, banks and property watchers with another source of price data. Property experts have commented that it will...

‘Govt has role in property market’

NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday emphasised that the Government has a role to play in the property market, but any intervention is 'done sparingly'. 'We try not to intervene but when we do, we do it only because we want the market to work better,' he told The Straits Times in an interview. The Government wants to see a stable, healthy market, where prices are generally moving in tandem...

Redas chief had questioned need for govt intervention

MR SIMON Cheong, president of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas), raised government hackles this week when he questioned the need for government intervention to halt the rise of private home prices. He had asked if the state should be so concerned with the prices of private home prices, when the segment serves only 16.5 per cent of the population. The Government recently...

W brand residences makes S’pore debut

A NEW upscale condominium that is part of the trendy 'W' boutique hotel brand has made its debut in Singapore. The Residences at W Singapore Sentosa Cove, which boasts 228 apartments, will be priced from $2,500 to $3,000 per sq ft (psf), said City Developments (CDL) at the launch yesterday. The record in the gated island enclave is held by Seven Palms, where nine units went for $3,100-$3,430 psf late...

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