Tag: property

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 ...)

Singapore property stocks are set for knee-jerk declines Friday after the government unexpectedly tightened property curbs to cool a market the central bank described as euphoric. The announcement lat... ( read original story ...)

Developers, banks and home buyers should be cautious about the property market euphoria said Ravi Menon. Mr Menon who is the Managing Director of Monetary Authority of Singapore (which is Singapore’s ... ( read original story ...)

The study, “Mortgage Market Credit Conditions and U.S. Presidential Elections,” by Columbia professor Charles W. Calomiris, co-written with Adonis Antoniades of the National University of Singapore, includes a county-by-county analysis of the 2008 ... ( read original story ...)

Today, every bank in Singapore is competing for your dollar with high interest savings accounts, so it’s actually possible to earn 2% or 3% p.a. on your savings. What a time to be alive!Does that mean the era of fixed deposits is over? Well, don’t ... ( read original story ...)

I used to see property investment as a means to achieve financial freedom. That was also the drive to build my first property portfolio in the 2000s. Sixteen years later, my knowledge of the subject has increased more than tenfold. Now I finally understand ... ( read original story ...)

Business and consumer loans grew 5.78% and 5.01% respectively. Singapore bank lending jumped by 5.48% in a year from $633.22b to $667.89b in May 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) revealed. Loan growth compared to April 2018 was flat at 0.11%. ( read original story ...)

An Insights report by DBS said that it is positive on Singapore property in the medium to long term, but that near-term sentiment weakness remains. The bank expects demand to be sustainable in the medium to long term on strong economic growth driven by ... ( read original story ...)

When it comes to investing in commercial property in Singapore, office spaces are often considered a category that only veteran property investors can handle. It’s one of the more volatile property types, but often one of the most rewarding in terms of ... ( read original story ...)

But did you know that landlords in Singapore are the targets of scammers posing as legit tenants? For those of us who are renting out your property or thinking of doing so, we’ve compiled a list of rental scams that landlords of residential properties ... ( read original story ...)