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Private home sales down 28% m-o-m in January

Some analysts believe that sales last month may have been limited due to the lack of offerings outside the core central region...

Continue Reading18 Feb 2019

Plum site yielding over 400 condo units awarded

The URA has awarded a 125,326.36 sq ft private residential site at Kampong Java Road to CELH Development...

Continue Reading22 Jan 2019

Kampong Java Road residential site attracts 7 bids

A unit of Chip Eng Seng Corporation submitted the highest bid of $418.4 million, revealed the Urban Redevelopment Authority...

Continue Reading17 Jan 2019

Golden Mile Complex may be used for integrated development

The landmark Golden Mile Complex may be developed into an integrated development with a GFA of 85,977.5 sq m...

Continue Reading9 Jan 2019

Private home prices rose 7.9% in 2018

Private residential property prices dipped 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, a reversal from the 0.5 percent...

Continue Reading2 Jan 2019

Govt to reveal underground master plan in 2019

The Singapore government plans to announce an Underground Master Plan next year in a bid to maximise...

Continue Reading24 Dec 2018

Bugis GLS sites expected to be strongly contested

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched two confirmed list sites and another two reserve list plots for sale...

Continue Reading3 Dec 2018

Govt: New URA rules don’t impose a minimum size

National Development Minister Lawrence Wong explained that new rules announced by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)...

Continue Reading20 Nov 2018

New private home sales down 48% in Oct

Excluding executive condominiums (ECs), private home sales declined by almost 48 percent to 487 units in October...

Continue Reading16 Nov 2018

Majority of shoebox apartment investors profited: Knight Frank

About 88.4 percent of resale transactions involving shoebox apartments, units smaller than 50 sq m (approx. 538.2 sq ft)...

Continue Reading15 Nov 2018

Govt launches three sites yielding 700 ECs, over 1,300 private condos

The government released for sale on Wednesday (31 Oct) two confirmed list sites and one reserve list plot that can collectively yield 540 hotel rooms and slightly over 2,000 residential units...

Continue Reading1 Nov 2018

Private home prices rise at a much slower pace in Q3

Private residential property prices grew at a much slower pace in the third quarter of 2018 as the government’s latest round of property cooling measures in July took their toll...

Continue Reading29 Oct 2018

Developers may need to rethink pricing amidst new shoebox rule

The Singapore government’s new policy on apartment sizes may come as good news to home buyers, but not to home builders who may now need a pricing rethink...

Continue Reading24 Oct 2018

Some private condos may become pricier due to new URA rules

A real estate industry body believes that private condos in some parts of Singapore could become more expensive after the government raised the average unit size...

Continue Reading19 Oct 2018

URA limits number of private condos outside central region

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) changed the formula for determining the maximum number of units that developers can build in new non-landed residential projects...

Continue Reading18 Oct 2018

Private home prices rise at slower pace

While private home prices continued to increase in the third quarter of 2018, the hike in prices was slower at 0.5 percent...

Continue Reading1 Oct 2018

Buyers rushing to avoid property curbs led to 55% surge in July home sales

Propelled by buyers rushing to purchase private condos hours before the new property curbs took effect on 6 July...

Continue Reading16 Aug 2018

Singapore private home prices rose 3.4% in Q2

Singapore private home prices rose 3.4 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q2 2018 compared to a slightly faster growth of 3.9 percent in Q1...

Continue Reading30 Jul 2018

URA to rezone some residential sites in Tiong Bahru

The URA announced that it will rezone some sites within Tiong Bahru estate from ‘residential’ to ‘residential with commercial at 1st storey’...

Continue Reading25 Jul 2018

URA orders detailed survey on Airbnb-type rents

Given the mixed results of the public consultation earlier this year, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has commissioned...

Continue Reading24 Jul 2018