Singapore Property Prices Vulnerable to Rising Supply

The rising supply of homes and slowing population growth may undermine the recent recovery in Singapore residential property prices, the country’s central bank said. Future development projects could potentially add 20,000 private housing units over the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s DBS Bank lowers India’s FY18 GDP growth to 6.6%

SINGAPORE: Singapore's DBS Bank today lowered India's GDP growth forecast for current fiscal to 6.6 per cent from the previous 6.8 per cent, citing that businesses were "still adjusting" to the new GST regime and there were "limited room" for fiscal support. ( read original story ...)

Singapore joins trend of lower property debt

Thanks to higher real rates. The accumulation of debt due to property purchases might have eased as Singapore's real rates rose, Morgan Stanley said. The firm said Singapore's trends in debt-to-GDP have largely mirrored China’s, with negative real rates ... ( read original story ...)

Regulator apologises for ‘Basel IV’ bank rules delay

Singapore central bank boss Ravi Menon has apologised to banks for the lengthy delays to a new package of global regulatory reforms that may finally be agreed by December 7. Mr Menon, who sits on the supervisory body of the Basel Committee on Banking ... ( read original story ...)

Mortgage is Critical to Housing Policy, Says Alufohai

Alufohai proposed a modeling of Nigeria’s mortgage system after that of Singapore where its citizens obtain 20 to 30-year low interest mortgages to acquire houses through a pool of funds into which all workers must contribute 20% of their salary. ( read original story ...)

From policeman to property developer

At the recent PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards held on 7 November, Oxley Holdings’ executive chairman and CEO Ching Chiat Kwong was honoured as the Singapore Real Estate Personality of the Year by the editors of Property Report magazine. It’s a huge ... ( read original story ...)

Property trends in 2018

According to Cushman & Wakefield Singapore’s research head Christine Li ... that home prices across the city-state are indeed recovering, the PropertyGuru Property Index shows that asking prices of over 200,000 homes listed on the website have ... ( read original story ...)

‘Mortgage critical to realistic housing policy’

“The most efficient focus of housing policy is for the government to assist millions of Nigerians obtain lower-interest mortgages; this is how most citizens are helped to acquire houses in many countries with successful housing policy such as ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s Big Week In Blockchain Progress

According to reports in the Business Times, Singapore’s central bank participated in a three-hour-long meeting late last week with Hong Kong to discuss the initiative, which has a lot of concerns to consider before the rollout. Reports said officials are ... ( read original story ...)

Has the Singapore property market turned the corner?

According to the latest real estate forecast report published by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC, we’re seeing the end of the dark night of the soul for the local property scene as Singapore leapfrogs its way from near the bottom of the table to ... ( read original story ...)

Why a Singapore Cryptocoin Firm Now Does Its Banking in Japan

Quoine joins about 10 firms specializing in cryptocurrency and payments services whose bank accounts have been shut in Singapore, where the financial regulator oversees only some activities related to the industry. Japanese authorities are taking a more ... ( read original story ...)

DBS Bank, OCBC, UOB to use NETS QR code for cashless payments

Seven banks in Singapore, including DBS Bank, OCBC and United Overseas Bank will be offering cashless payments in Singapore via NETS' QR code platform by mid-2018. The top three lenders will be joined by HSBC, Maybank, Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank ... ( read original story ...)