Daily Briefing: First-time BTO buyers may not need to ballot; Government unlikely to remove curbs soon

And Singapore blogger sued by Prime Minister.

Most of the first-time applicants at the latest Build-To-Order (BTO) exercise in Woodlands and Bukit Batok are likely assured of a flat, given that there were fewer first-timers than units available as reported in the media. Know more here.
Home prices are likely to fall further before the government rolls back the property cooling measures which were imposed since 2009, according to Standard Chartered in media reports. Read more here.
As of the time of the writing, Roy Ngerng has raised a total of S$36,606.05 so far. Find out what he did here.

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