The rental market may improve this year, as home buyers are likely to put off purchasing amid the recent cooling measures, said analysts. Over the next year, a larger pool of tenants might stabilise the rental market or cause a five percent increase in rents. This counters earlier expectations of a downtrend in rents due to a large supply of completed units entering the market this year. Rents were...
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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....
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...
POTENTIAL landlords, here's a tip: Turn the apartment you are planning to rent out into a "green" home. The reason? More Singaporean renters are clamouring for lower energy costs and an eco-friendly lifestyle. Despite the higher cost of energy-efficient appliances, landlords are moving towards investing in energy-saving air-conditioning units, for example, as a green apartment can command rents which are...
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...
SINGAPORE’S drive to become an education hub is providing a form of support for the home leasing market. According to property and student agents, more international students in Singapore are turning to condominiums for accommodation even as the more traditional hostels and HDB flats remain in hot demand. The influx of foreign students has visibly strengthened since the Economic Development Board...
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...
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