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However, they will only spend 3.6 days investigating mortgage options. Britons spend three days – almost the same amount of time they spend to inv... ( read original story ...)

What a roller-coaster last week for Singapore’s real estate market. It was a surprisingly well-coordinated good show put up by the Singapore government, complemented by the parts played by different s... ( read original story ...)

The government, of course, is fully aware of this. To prevent an overheated private residential property market in Singapore, cooling measures were recently announced to curb property prices and manag... ( read original story ...)

Banks may compensate for slower loan growth by pricing their mortgage packages higher following surprise policies unveiled by the government to slow down runaway residential prices in Singapore. Also ... ( read original story ...)

The measures, which include higher additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) rates and tighter loan-to-value (LTV) limits, reduce the risk of a property price bubble, future price shocks and losses from mo... ( read original story ...)

In the past year, a number of companies that Temasek has a stake in have experienced surges in their share prices. Singapore’s DBS Bank saw shares jumped 42 percent, while in Hong Kong, China Construc... ( read original story ...)

Temasek has since 2011 increased its investment focus on technology, life sciences, agribusiness, non-bank financial services and consumer sectors Singapore investment giant Temasek Holdings said Tues... ( read original story ...)

VP Bank has been adding headcount in Singapore and Hong Kong, and is eyeing partnerships with a view to gaining more wealthy Chinese clients, according to Chief Executive Officer Alfred W. Moeckli. “W... ( read original story ...)

Singapore imposed cooling measures on its property market last week, in a bid to contain what the central bank described as ‘euphoria’ in the sector. Here are three charts showing some of the factors ... ( read original story ...)

In Singapore, the three major listed banks are DBS Group Holdings Ltd (SGX: D05), Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (SGX: O39) and United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11). Since their respective ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the World Bank inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the sidelines of the World Cities Summit 2018 on Monday, to promote the ... ( read original story ...)

The Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS) sees no rationale in imposing new property cooling measures considering that the Singapore property market is still in the “early stages of ... ( read original story ...)

The measures were imposed over rising prices and demand. The Singapore government will raise Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) rates and tighten Loan-to-Value (LTV) limits on home purchases as a wa... ( read original story ...)

The first week of July 2018 was a rollercoaster ride for the Singapore property market. First, on Monday, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released 2Q 2018 flash estimates that indicated a stro... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE—Shares of Singapore’s real-estate developers plunged and major banks fell sharply Friday after the government unexpectedly announced fresh clamps on private residential property. The governm... ( read original story ...)

Singapore property and bank stocks led declines on the benchmark stock index Friday after the government unexpectedly tightened property curbs to cool a market the central bank described as euphoric. ... ( read original story ...)