Singapore remains a top choice for property investment

SINGAPORE remains a favoured destination for property investments among the world's ultra-wealthy, taking the fifth spot based on an overall global ranking by Knight Frank. In the property consultancy's Wealth Report 2018, Singapore is the third most ... ( read original story ...)

Property Soul Meet the Blogger Session

In April 2014, our second Meet the Blogger session was held in the small lecture theatre at Marketing Institute of Singapore. I used the occasion to launch my new book No B.S. Guide to Property Investment and officially announce the setup of Property Club ... ( read original story ...)

Inside one of Singapore’s strangest homes

From street level, number 2 Wilby Road in Singapore’s affluent Bukit Timah seems, if anything, nondescript compared to its grandiose neighbours. Foliage tumbles from the front garden over a wooden fence, while an unkempt, once-white pillar modestly bears ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore swing: pent-up demand boosts property prices

As its housing market testifies, Singapore — often hailed as the beacon of Asian free-market capitalism — is a tightly controlled economy. That the government has been able to preside over a boom in private house prices without an unaffordability ... ( read original story ...)

Hats off to Singapore for raising taxes

Singapore is moving boldly, and wisely, in a different direction. The government is raising levies on property, goods and services, carbon and certain imported services. Not radically, but assertively nonetheless. A stamp duty rise to 4% from 3% applies ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s City Developments focuses on fund management

City Developments, under former CEO Grant Kelley, entered into fund management through three property investment programs, called "Profit Participation Schemes," totaling 3.5 billion Singapore dollars ($2.6 billion). Now Kwek will take the big leap forward. ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s UOL eager to bulk up overseas property portfolio

SINGAPORE -- Local real estate developer UOL Group is keen to buy more properties overseas, especially in London, as part of an effort to slowly diversify its portfolio. "We are Singapore-centric, but moving forward, we want to move a little bit of our ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore January bank lending falls 0.2 pct m/m

SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Singapore’s total bank lending in January fell 0.2 percent from December, on the back of lower loans to businesses, central bank data showed on Wednesday. Loans and advances by domestic banking units in the city-state ... ( read original story ...)