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Bank lending up 6.8% year-on-year in May
SINGAPORE - Bank lending in May rose for the eighth straight month on the back of a more sanguine economic outlook as both business and consumer loans went up. Total bank loans rose to S$633.2 billion, up 6.8 per cent compared with S$592.8 billion in May ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore luxury home prices show recovery signs, developer says
Singapore’s luxury home prices, which have been the worst hit by the government’s property curbs in recent years, are finally showing signs of a recovery, according to developer Guocoland Ltd. High-end home sales in the city-state had been on an ... ( read original story ...)
Luxury home prices on the upswing
While it has taken a beating from the government’s property cooling measures in recent years, luxury home prices in Singapore are now showing signs of recovery, reported Bloomberg. In fact, luxury home sales had been on the upswing even before some of ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Home Prices Extend Longest Losing Streak on Curbs
Singapore home prices fell in the quarter ended June, extending the drop in property values to a record 15th quarter as most measures to cool the market remain in place despite a slight easing in March. An index tracking private residential prices fell 0.3 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s MAS Says Not Yet Time to Ease Property Curbs
(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s central bank said it’s not yet time to ease property curbs and the adjustments made by the government in March don’t signal an unwinding of the measures. While the property market has stabilized, “it is, however, not time ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to maintain property stance
The central bank of Singapore has announced that its current cooling measures will remain in place. The restrictions, which were introduced eight years ago, have been cited as the reason for the cooling of the property market. “Our key property market ... ( read original story ...)
MAS: Property cooling measures still necessary
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s central bank said it’s not yet time to ease property curbs and the adjustments made by the government in March don’t signal an unwinding of the measures. While the property market has stabilised, “it is, however, not time yet ... ( read original story ...)
Not yet time to ease property cooling measures, says MAS
Singapore’s property cooling measures are here to stay, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The central bank says residential property transactions increased in 2016 compared with 2015 due to healthy sales at project launches and ... ( read original story ...)
Sentosa Cove bungalow up for sale for S$20.8mil
based on the property’s 8,746 sq ft. land area, reported New Straits Times. Marketing agent List Sotheby’s Singapore revealed that the property on 65 Ocean Drive is being sold fully fitted and unfurnished. The firm attributed the property’s high ... ( read original story ...)
Mobike in regulation talks in Singapore as bike dumping worsens
Chinese mobility startup Mobike is in discussions about how the bike-sharing space can be more closely regulated in Singapore, as local authorities grapple with the problem of thousands of bicycles dumped haphazardly around the neat city-state. Launched in ... ( read original story ...)
Australia has the 10th fastest mobile broadband in the world
Australia has the 10th fastest mobile broadband in the world, rubbing shoulders with countries that have far smaller territory to cover such as Singapore, Luxembourg and South Korea. The latest State of LTE research by mobile signal software company ... ( read original story ...)
Asia-Pacific’s Top ICT Firms commended at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan ICT Awards
SINGAPORE, July 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia-Pacific's leading ICT firms were announced at Frost & Sullivan's annual ICT Awards held at the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore earlier this evening. Arkadin, Amdocs, Genesys, Huawei, Palo Alto Networks, SingTel ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC Cycle 2017 to feature new corporate speedway race
SINGAPORE – A new racing competition for companies, called the OCBC Cycle Speedway Corporate Championship, will make its debut at this year’s OCBC Cycle 2017. Mirroring the format of the Speedway races for local cycling clubs and South-East Asian (SEA ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore luxury home prices set to recover, says Guocoland
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s luxury home prices, which have been the worst hit by the government’s property curbs in recent years, are finally showing signs of a recovery, according to developer Guocoland Ltd. High-end home sales in the city-state had been ... ( read original story ...)
GIC hires from Standard Chartered for its Singapore ‘innovation lab’
Innovation labs are booming in Singapore. And now GIC has hired a Standard Chartered director into its tech centre. http://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/284288/dbs-technology-jobs-soh-siew-choo/ GIC has hired a Standard Chartered director as it starts ... ( read original story ...)