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Woes concerning oil and gas are also not over. Whilst there is general optimism seen in the ASEAN banking sector, Singapore banks will continue to face challenges and remain under pressure. According to BMI Research, Singapore banks will continue to face a ... ( read original story ...)

However, CPF rates do not change often. For bank loans, things get a bit more complicated. Bank loans can be based on the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR), Swap Offer Rate (SOR), or a bank’s Internal Board Rate (IBR), of which Fixed Deposit Home ... ( read original story ...)

Our top Singapore property stories. Is Singapore’s housing market on the road to recovery? The recovery in Singapore’s residential property market appears to be gathering pace following a protracted downtrend, revealed a CNBC report. The inflection ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s Second Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong said in a Bloomberg TV interview that the government hasn’t “made any movement in the budget” to relax the property cooling measures because “demand remains very resilient” and “property ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE, April 10 (IFR) - The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or World Bank, is exploring a potential issue of retail bonds in Singapore to boost interest in sustainable development bonds and tap the affluent population. In a ... ( read original story ...)

The recovery in Singapore’s residential property market appears to be gathering pace following a protracted downtrend, reported Asia One. The inflection point in prices is expected to come “very soon”, said Cushman & Wakefield’s Managing Director ... ( read original story ...)

After a long, plodding downtrend, Singapore's housing market may be gathering forces for a rebound. Sigrid Zialcita, managing director for Asia Pacific research at Cushman & Wakefield, told CNBC's "The Rundown" last week that she expected a turning point ... ( read original story ...)

Country winners from the aforementioned 14 markets advance to the seventh annual PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards grand final in Singapore on 7-8 November to compete for regional titles and be crowned the "best in Asia" in 2017. Last year's grand final ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's total bank lending in February rose as lending to financial institutions, general commerce as well as building and construction increased, central bank data showed on Friday. Loans and advances by domestic banking units in ... ( read original story ...)

The outlook for Singapore's most exclusive properties is leaving property analysts and top agents at odds as market conditions and initial data points paint a conflicting picture. Statistics collated by Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority and data ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

Since 2009, the government has been trying to rein in property prices in Singapore. To this end, they introduced a slew of cooling measures - eight in total - including the ABSD (Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty), the SSD (Seller's Stamp Duty) and the TDSR ... ( read original story ...)