Underpinned by strong employment rate and sustained economic growth, residential rental transactions in 1Q2011 grew 8.7% y-o-y to 10,162, says Savills in a report. This is considered the highest level of transactions seen since records began to be kept in 2000. Growth in rental rates, however, slowed during the quarter to 1.2%, from 2.6% in 4Q2010, as a growing volume of new supply came on the market....
Singapore Rental Market
Rental growth for residential units is expected to moderate over the next few years, as 30,491 new homes come onstream in 2013. This is according to property consultants. Data out earlier from the Urban Redevelopment Authority showed that residential rental growth slowed down to about 1 per cent in the first quarter this year - the slowest pace in more than a year. And the downward trend is expected to...
Prime residential rentals in Singapore have been boosted by new supply in the third quarter. According to preliminary estimates from Jones Lang LaSalle, average prime non-landed residential rental experienced a slight uplift of 1.1 per cent quarter on quarter. It rose to $4.65 per square foot per month in the third quarter as higher rentals commanded by the new completions benefited the rentals in the...
Rental rates in the private property market are poised to rise with the expected influx of some 80,000 foreign workers this year. Analysts said this is because of the shortage of private housing. And the supply situation may not improve this year, as only 5,000 private housing units are expected for completion by the end of the year. The Government's forecast on the number of foreign workers here comes...
Rental rates in the private property market are poised to rise with the expected influx of some 80,000 foreign workers this year. Analysts said this is because of the shortage of private housing. And the supply situation may not improve this year as only 5,000 private housing units are expected for completion by year's end. The government's forecast on the number of foreign workers here comes on the...
DESMOND SIM says demand likely from financial, biomedical sectors THE leasing market for non-landed homes showed signs of recovery in the final quarter of 2009, going by Urban Redevelopment Authority numbers. Median rents saw their first quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.5 per cent following five quarters of continued decline from a peak in Q2 2008. The monthly median rent in Q4 2009 was $3.02 per sq ft....
Consider this: Rentals are sliding while residential property sales continue to scale new heights in the current troubled times. With almost half of recent buyers being potential investors with private addresses, could these people be punting on a rental recovery? If so, they may be staring at a wait of several years for the uptick. "I don't expect any rental recovery for the rest of this year," said...
Property prices across the board were down in the first quarter of 2009. Official figures released Friday showed that in the private property market, residential, office, shop and industrial properties decreased fetched lower prices both in terms of sales and rentals. As for HDB’s Resale Price Index (RPI) for public housing, it showed a fall by 0.8% in 1st Quarter 2009 over the previous quarter. This...
Private residential properties in Singapore saw a sharp fall in rentals and a slight price decline in the first quarter of 2009. Real estate consultancy firm DTZ in its report on Tuesday said monthly rentals of luxurious homes slid 18.8 per cent to S$5.20 per square foot, a level not seen since the third quarter of 2006. Rent of units in prime districts also saw a drop, down 16.2 per cent to S$3.65 per...
Market watchers expect private home rentals in Singapore to slide a further 5 per cent in the first quarter of this year. That is partly due to falling numbers of expatriate staff based in the city state and lower housing budgets allocated to them. Singapore plays home to many foreigners working here. But the numbers could fall as firms cut costs to cope with the global recession. Real estate agency ERA...