Singapore bank loans grew for the 11th straight month in August, but the growth remained on the downtrend for the second month in a row. According to the latest figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), total lending in the said month rose by ... ( read original story ...)
Trillanes: ‘Expert’ sold fake info about bank accounts to Palace official
The senator said his alleged account and De Lima’s were similar – both were supposed to be in DBS Bank Alexandra branch in Singapore. “Hindi pa nadala itong si Mr. Snooky Cruz. Pinalitan lang niya yung ibang detalye at binenta ulit sa mga taga ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Q3 home prices rise for first time in 4 years
Singapore's private home prices rose in the third quarter for the first time in four years, ending a stretch of 15 consecutive quarters of declines, the government's preliminary estimates showed on Monday. The private residential property index rose 0.5% ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Home Prices Rise for First Time in Four Years
Singapore’s home prices rose for the first time in four years, snapping a record run of declines and confirming recent signs that the property market is rebounding. An index tracking private residential prices gained 0.5 percent in the three months ended ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Snub Spoils Office Party
Kwek, not Quek. It's not enough that a Malaysian tycoon is paying the most ever to build a new office block in Singapore. What's more important is that his billionaire Singapore cousin is staying away. Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan's Guocoland Ltd ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s home prices rise, snapping record four-year decline
A jump in home sales and developers’ aggressive bids for land are stoking optimism that the property market is making a comeback. At the same time, the bulk of Singapore’s cooling measures rolled out from 2009 are still in place after officials moved ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Singapore Q3 private home prices rise for first time in 4 years
Singapore’s private home prices rose in the third quarter for the first time in four years, ending a stretch of 15 consecutive quarters of declines, the government’s preliminary estimates showed on Monday. The private residential property index rose 0 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Home Prices Rise for First Time in Four Years (1)
(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s home prices rose for the first time in four years, snapping a record run of declines and confirming recent signs that the property market is rebounding. An index tracking private residential prices gained 0.5 percent in the ... ( read original story ...)
Golden Week brings Phuket boon in Chinese property hunters
PHUKET: The CEO of China’s largest international property website has predicted huge growth in ... Japan, the United States, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Vietnam, Italy, Russia, and Malaysia,” Ms Law noted “We expect Southeast Asian countries ... ( read original story ...)
FxWirePro: Singapore dollar falls in early Asia despite higher than expected URA property index
FxWirePro: Japanese yen trades marginally lower after mixed economic data FxWirePro: GBP/AUD spikes after support at 23.6% Fibos to form bullish engulfing, minor trend pops up OB pressures – Short hedges at stiff resistance ahead of Brexit negos ... ( read original story ...)
Bank lending up for 11th straight month in August though growth slows to 5.1%
SINGAPORE - Bank loans rose year on year for the 11th straight month in August though the pace of growth slowed for the second straight month as business lending cooled. Total lending last month rose to S$634.41 billion, up 5.1 per cent compared with S$603 ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese property buyers face tighter rules as real estate agents go for broke in ‘Golden Week’
RMIT lecturer in property Peng Wong said "Australian governments are smart" to not immediately impose a 15 per cent tax like Singapore, Vancouver and Hong Kong had done. He said the 15 per cent surcharge was effective and dampened foreign buyer demand. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Shinvest Holding To Dispose Leasehold Property For S$4.38 Million
SINGAPORE (Sep 29) -- Shinvest Holding, a Singapore-based industrial components and parts maker, said Friday its subsidiary Sin Hong Hardware has entered into an agreement to sell a leasehold property in Singapore to Tong Tar Transport Service for S$4.38 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore-listed Roxy-Pacific buys second office tower in New Zealand
Singapore-listed property group Roxy-Pacific advanced its New Zealand expansion buying its second office building in Auckland the NZI Centre for $NZ63 million ($58 million). The 9446sq m property at 1 Fanshawe Street is a five-storey building on a 2604sq ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore home prices have bottomed, Hong Kong ‘crazy.’
"Very significant" income growth will drive the first leg of a recovery in home prices in Singapore, where property ownership as a proportion of household assets is near a record low, BNP's Asia-Pacific head of research for financial institutions and ... ( read original story ...)
49% of S’poreans aspire to buy property in near future
Property affordability sentiment is still subdued in Singapore. Nearly five in 10 Singaporeans intend to purchase a residential property in the near future, according to PropertyGuru’s Regional Consumer Sentiment Survey for H1 2017. Although the home ... ( read original story ...)