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No Bubble, Says Property Developers
31 July 09 08:36 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
PROPERTY developers are enjoying the surge in interest from buyers but they do not believe that speculation has reached a stage where the Government needs to step in. They also maintain that the prevailing economic conditions will begin to cool the buying Read More...
Property Gain Tax Made Clear By The MOF
10 July 09 09:39 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Has the market worked up a storm in a teacup over a suggested change to income tax laws on gains from property sales? Keen to quell rumours about an anti-speculation drive, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) clarified yesterday that the proposal is unlikely Read More...
Investment Sales More Than Tripled In Q2 In Singapore Property Market
08 July 09 08:34 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
PROPERTY investment sales more than tripled in Q2 this year as sentiment improved on the back of easing credit and the stockmarket rally, says DTZ. The firm says in its Q2 Singapore property market report that total investment value during the quarter Read More...
Singapore Private resale home prices up in Q2 (2nd Quater)
04 July 09 09:34 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
12.8% increase in average price of 2-bedroom units; firm expects full-year primary market sales to top 2006 figure of 11,147 units By KALPANA RASHIWALA This followed a 3.7 per cent quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) price fall in Q1. Two-bedroom units posted Read More...
Investors Starts Warming Up The Property Market
09 April 09 10:39 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
The sharp slide in high-end residential property prices is beginning to show up on the radars of serious investors. From their peaks in the second half of 2007 to the first quarter this year, transacted prices of luxury condos in the prime Orchard Road Read More...
Investment Property Sales Plunged 58 Percent
09 April 09 10:27 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Investment property sales shrank in the first quarter of this year to their lowest level since 1998, as fewer transactions of smaller value took place. According to property consultancy DTZ, sales plunged 58 per cent quarter on quarter to just $153 million Read More...
Q1 Home Sales Performance Decline
01 April 09 10:01 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
The prices of resale private apartments and condos fell at a slower clip in the first quarter compared with the decline in Q4 last year, according to latest figures from DTZ. However, the property consulting group is predicting price drops for the whole Read More...
HDB Upgraders Hottest Group In The Propery Market
01 April 09 09:59 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
SEVEN in 10 buyers of new private homes in the first three months of the year had Housing Board addresses, making HDB upgraders the hottest group in the property market so far for this year. This is the second-highest proportion of HDB upgraders since Read More...
Private Property Sales Bump Up
30 March 09 11:38 AM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Despite the recent slump in the property market, new private properties are still being snapped up in the market. Last month’s sales of new private homes jumped to 1,323 units, harking back to the days of the property boom, said observers. In January, Read More...
Rent Price Drop In Prime Districts
23 March 09 01:24 PM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Tenants looking for apartments in prime districts are having it good as rents there head south. Right now, rentals of these units are falling faster than those in the mass market. Among the reasons: New supplies have entered the market. A number of new Read More...
Big Gains And Losses Seen In Subsale Market
19 March 09 12:38 PM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
In a tough property year, an overwhelming 95 per cent of those who sold private apartments and condos in the subsale market last year had managed to turn a profit. But the number of subsales that chalked up losses more than doubled from 24 in first-half Read More...
The Sail @ Marina Bay Topped Subsales Gain
19 March 09 12:14 PM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
TRANSACTIONS at The Sail @ Marina Bay last year topped the subsales deals that generated the highest gains, both in absolute as well as in percentage terms, a caveats analysis by Savills Singapore shows. In absolute dollar terms, the biggest gain of $6.66 Read More...
Property Speculators Returns
01 March 09 12:55 PM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Speculators were among buyers at the recent sell-out sale of all 293 units at Alexis @ Alexandra , a newly launched condominium. Another project, Caspian , in Jurong, sold around 515 of its 712 units at about the same time. ‘For sale’ ads Read More...
Developers Looking To Captialize On Market Buzz
01 March 09 12:31 PM | Winston Yap | 0 Comments   
Thanks to the mini-buzz created by two new successful launches - Caspian in Jurong and Alexis @ Alexandra - a few developers have decided to release their projects for sale. It is an improvement, even if it is just a slight one, from the very sombre mood Read More...

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