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 ...)

Singapore Developers Predominant in Indonesian Property Market?

Jakarta, GIVnews.com – The majority of foreign property developers currently operating in Indonesia are from Singapore. Rising demands for property assets in Indonesia, thanks to its promising economic condition, had lured those developers to come in ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore investors set their sights overseas

UK residential property among top targets for Singapore investors. While foreign investment in Singapore has increased tremendously on the back of mega deals such as Qatar Investment Authority’s purchase of Asia Square Tower 1 for US$2.45 billion ... ( read original story ...)

Why property buyers should be interested in Bitcoin

With smart contracts, the landlord can just encode the contract onto the property listings. The prospective tenant ... For example, we currently pay about $2,000 to $3,000 for conveyancing fees in Singapore. If smart contracts allow for transactions ... ( read original story ...)

Property market could spring to life in Oct

SINGAPORE (Sept 25): Maybank Kim Eng expects a busy month ahead for the local property market. The brokerage cum research house is predicting strong bids for the tender for a prime commercial site on Beach Road which will close this Thursday as prime ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s red-hot en-bloc market attracts fresh $1b sale bid

Spring Grove condominium, in Singapore's swanky diplomatic district ... "Our clubhouse is a heritage-listed property as it used to house the US ambassador. So the developer that buys the land will have a heritage-listed building as well," said Mr Adrian ... ( read original story ...)

Cromwell pulls out of $1.7b Singapore float

Cromwell Property has shocked investors with its decision to pull ... with Mr Weightman saying the European real estate investment trust, to be listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, was part of its strategy to diversify its capital sources and increase ... ( read original story ...)

HDB LOANS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN BANK LOANS FOR THE PAST DECADE!

But from 2008 to the present, bank loans have been much cheaper ... costs so as to level the playing field and reduce the divide between the RICH and POOR in Singapore. The person buying an HDB flat shouldn't be hit by an interest rate higher than the ... ( read original story ...)

Journalist covering the Trillanes bank story threatened

Jam Sisante, a reporter for GMA News, was threatened for reporting on Philippine Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s trip to Singapore to disprove accusations that he was holding ill-gotten wealth in various bank accounts. “So my friend and colleague Jam ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s property cooling measures from 2011

Cooling measures form an integral and important part of the Singapore property market. Investors say it’s punitive and unnecessary while the banks and government claims it enhances stability of the market. In whatever case, the cooling measures are here ... ( read original story ...)