Singapore: Bank loans show downtrend, but still up 5.1%

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 ...)

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 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 ...)

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 ...)