Tag: mortgage

Your home loan is probably the single biggest financial commitment you’ll ever take on, and one you could spend the next few decades paying for. Given the magnitude, you obviously want to ensure you l... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Bank lending in Singapore rose in October from a month ago, reversing from a slight contraction in September, preliminary data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore showed on Friday (No... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is getting ready for polls. Because a single party has ruled uninterrupted since 1959, the real importance of the next election lies in the rare leadership transition that will take place af... ( read original story ...)

Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies and financial services. He previously was a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews. He has also worked for the Straits Times, ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore stands out as an attractive property investment destination, said a recent research report by Colliers International. Colliers International, a global leader in commercial real estate servic... ( read original story ...)

The government of Singapore in July 2018 announced the slaying property cooling features. The aim was to cool down the seemingly hot or rather overheating property market. Among the cooling measures i... ( read original story ...)

Property stocks took a beating in July when the Singapore government implemented additional property cooling measures. Since then, private condominium prices have declined for two straight months, and ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s recent property market cooling measures have moderated the pace of home-price rises and subdued transaction activity, the nation’s central bank said. That should contribute to stronger hou... ( read original story ...)

As a major Asian financial center, Singapore serves as a regional base for hundreds of banks including DBS Group Holdings, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and United Overseas Bank, the top three ... ( read original story ...)

Net interest margins are poised to widen amidst expected rate hikes. Although the ongoing US-China trade dispute has already weighed in on the financial sector’s results in Q3, banks in Singapore are ... ( read original story ...)

... Minister for Economic and Social Policies and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam was visiting the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the first time today. Mr ... ( read original story ...)

warns the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the republic's de facto central bank. This is because rising interest rates and pressure on currencies could weaken debt servicing abilities of countries, co... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has one of the fastest growing and mature property markets in the world and as such, it has attracted a lot of investors. However, many of the country’s citizens are worried because rapid gr... ( read original story ...)

Its weak 10.7% performance on property factors and modest banking scale dragged its final score. Singapore came in at third place as the best finance location in Asia after scoring highly on socio-eco... ( read original story ...)

The same goes for selling property, too; the truth is there’s no best time to sell. The Singapore government is very interventionist and dynamic, when it comes to residential property Our Minister for ... ( read original story ...)

There were 81 sub-sale transactions for private property in Singapore in 3Q 2018, a tiny fraction of the 2,672 resale transactions that occured in the same quarter. So, why do sub-sales occur? The mos... ( read original story ...)