Singapore Property Developers Have a New Headache

Singapore’s recent unwinding of some property curbs, which initially appeared to boost prospects for developers, may instead be creating new problems. After regulators closed a tax loophole that allowed developers to offload apartments in bulk to ... ( read original story ...)

Time to rethink investment in residential property

With Singapore's economy still weak, and property cooling measures still largely in place, potential investors are rightly apprehensive about prospects for real estate. On March 10, 2017, the government made a surprise announcement that the seller's stamp ... ( read original story ...)

Investments in Singapore Property Assets Rise: ETF in Focus

Singapore is seeing a surge in investments in property assets. Foreign investments in the country’s property assets rose to $4.1 billion in 2016, an increase of 441% year on year. The major component of this investment was the Qatar Investment Authority ... ( read original story ...)

Sotheby's International Realty opens in Singapore

Leong Boon Hoe, Chief Operating Officer of List Sotheby’s International Realty, Singapore. Capitalising on Singapore’s position as a financial hub and the growing number of affluent individuals in the Southeast Asia region, Sotheby’s International ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore investors shun real estate deals in home market

Domestic investment in Singapore real estate fell 16 percent in 2016, according to JLL. Unlike other countries in the Asia Pacific, Singapore saw domestic real estate investment drop 16 percent in 2016, while inbound investment surged 441 percent from ... ( read original story ...)

News Roundup (March 2017)

Housing prices in Singapore are likely to continue falling even as the government may gradually ease the property cooling measures, Fitch Ratings said recently. The ratings agency noted that Singapore’s efforts to curb property speculation in an ... ( read original story ...)

Why banks might be causing flat mortgage growth

According to Jefferies, the mortgage growth is flat at ~4% despite the increased ... restrictions and liberalisation of shareholding policy for finance companies in Singapore announced in February is also intended to enhance financing to SMEs. ( read original story ...)

Malaysia seen retaining property cooling measures

COUNTRIES in the region that imposed property cooling measures at around the same time are not likely to be relaxing them almost simultaneously due to differing economic conditions. Singapore had slightly lowered the property seller’s stamp duty and ... ( read original story ...)