Category: PROPERTY

You could say old houses in Singapore are like cheese: they get finer with age, and also tend to smell like them. Here’s what you need to look for if the house is 20 years or older, besides a really good air freshener: Once a property has 40 years or ... ( read original story ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The head of Singapore’s central bank said on Monday he hoped the technologies underpinning cryptocurrencies such as blockchain would not be undermined by an eventual crash in the digital money. The city-state has been positioning ... ( read original story ...)

And with the property market showing incipient signs of recovering ... companies continue to struggle with labour shortages and slower demand. Nonetheless, Singapore’s positive business environment and sound economic fundamentals are expected to provide ... ( read original story ...)

While the property market is expected to head for a rebound, analysts believe the optimism surrounding Singapore’s property market may lead to market instability, reported Singapore Business Review. This comes as the intense competition for en bloc sites ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Jan 12): RHB expects property prices to rebound by 3-7% in 2018, driven by an improving job market, strong surge in the en-bloc market and falling inventory levels. However, a soft rental market, rising interest rates, intense competition in ... ( read original story ...)

Game Boy is back! Remake of 28-year-old retro console could be 2018's answer to the Nokia 3310 Robotics in business: Everything humans need to know SINGAPORE (Jan 12): RHB expects property prices to rebound by 3-7% in 2018, driven by an improving job ... ( read original story ...)

Frasers Property UK, a member of Singapore-listed Frasers Centrepoint, has appointed Ilaria del Beato as its chief executive officer. Del Beato brings with her nearly 30 years of real estate and finance experience, most recently as CEO of GE Capital UK. ( read original story ...)

The organisation has been actively lobbying the Singapore government to block streaming software embedded in these media boxes. The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore told Bloomberg last year that it was not the medium (media boxes) but rather the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE – An Indian-origin banker in Singapore has been named as the best central bank governor in Asia-Pacific for 2018, a media report said on Thursday. Ravi Menon, managing director of Singapore’s central bank Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS ... ( read original story ...)

The Association of Banks in Singapore published a proposal on 4 December to improve the way it calculates SIBOR. SIBOR stands for Singapore Interbank Offered Rate, and is simply an interest rate that banks in Singapore charge to one another. While that may ... ( read original story ...)

Paredes also said DBS Bank hopes to double the premium of its general insurance business in three years after entering into a 15-year regional general insurance distribution partnership agreement with Chubb in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

Analysts believe the four-year slump that has plagued Singapore’s property market may have come to an end as private home prices rose for a second consecutive quarter in the period ended-31 December. In fact, analysts at Credit Suisse expect home prices ... ( read original story ...)

Think of it as applying and getting a home loan a second time around – besides qualifying, you also need to pay conveyancing fees again. That means forking out between $2,000 to $3,000 to a law firm, to settle the paperwork. (You can try looking for a ... ( read original story ...)

Investment volumes to remain strong for Singapore, while home prices are forecast to rise. The prospects for the Singapore property market are bright, with investment volumes to remain strong and home prices forecast to rise, revealed a 2018 Asia Pacific ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore's housing market is expected to build on its recovery over 2018, analysts say, as private home prices marked their first annual rise in four years. After hitting a record peak in the third quarter of 2013, a string of government ... ( read original story ...)

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) placed more scrutiny on the way banks are funding property development projects, by gathering more data from them via a new survey sent out last month, reported The Business Times. The move comes as developers made ... ( read original story ...)