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Home buyers flock to Park Colonial and Stirling Residences' weekend showflats

Home buyers flock to Park Colonial and Stirling Residences' weekend showflats

They offer more value than other projects launched in the weekend like Affinity and Garden Residences, an analyst said.

SATS' revenue dipped 0.3% to $1.72b

Earnings from food solutions fell 2.7% to $946.6m.

Growth of Grade A downtown office rents hits 4-year high at 4.1% in Q2

But leasing enquiry levels and expansion requirements have not been quite as positive.

Real estate investment sales grew 11.4% to $10.31b in Q2

There were 15 residential en bloc sales that boosted quarterly sales.

Singapore firms' payment performance weakened in Q2

Prompt payments fell slightly by 1.65 ppt to 49.55% of total transactions.

Daily Briefing: Fuel shortage in Asia pushed Singapore oil prices to a 3-year high; Starhub welcomes new CEO

And Golden Gate Ventures joined a $19.9m funding for a Singapore care-giving startup.

Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.91%

Investors are taking caution over trade tensions' effect on local sentiment.

Chart of the Day: 33 firms bought back $174m of their shares in June

CapitaLand led the tally and bought back 17.2 million shares for $60.8m.

Talent crunch beefs up finance payrolls amidst thinning workforce

Firms may need to shell out extra $29,100 per highly skilled finance worker by 2030.

Wilmar could benefit from soybean prices hit by trade tensions

Soybean prices have fallen 4.6% since the US and China resumed announcing tariffs.

Global trade tensions unlikely to hit Sheng Siong: analyst

Its exposure is nearly limited to only Singapore, rendering it unaffected by global trade spats.

More than half of employers struggle to fill in positions

The jobs that are hardest to fill are sales representatives, engineers, and drivers.

12-hectare Bukit Canberra to open in 2020

It is expected to have a polyclinic, sports centre, and a hawker centre.

PropNex Realty debuts on SGX Mainboard at 68.5 cents per share

Its $240m market cap boosted the real estate cluster's cap to $179b.

HDB resale prices up 0.1% in Q2

Meanwhile, the supply for BTO flats will be cut from 17,000 to 16,000.

Private home prices up 3.4% in Q2

Home sellers raise their prices as buyers rush to get homes before they turn costlier.