Residential Property
In-demand OCR homes dominate private condo sales in August
In-demand OCR homes dominate private condo sales in August
OCR sales jumped 16.1% month-on-month.
Ghost month: New private home sales plunge 42.9% year-on-year in August
Number of new launches also dropped by 64.1%.
Chart of the Day: See the plunge in posh home selling prices at Sentosa
And how higher-priced projects are at greater risk of a price correction.
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And new roads linking to MCE open on 28 Sept.
Pent-up demand: Keppel Land sold 80% of Highline Residence units over the weekend
Despite a challenging property market.
Keppel Land launches Highline Residence sales at Tiong Bahru
For $1.8k to $1.9k psf.
Chart of the Day: See the surging non-landed private residential rents in FY14
Up 25.0% from last year.
Non-landed private residential rental prices down 6.6% in August:SRX
Rental volume jumped 25%.
Posh private condos buck the trend as resale prices climb 4.8% in August
Resale volume inched up 1.2% year-on-year.
Time to move out: Developers urged to go overseas to boost weak margins
Difficult times call for desperate measures.
Bucking the trend: Bungalow prices climb 6.7% in 1H14
The most expensive unit fetched $31.8m.
Bukit Merah is the only town where HDB resale prices jumped in August: SRX
Meanwhile, Bukit Panjang posted the biggest decline in prices.
Yet another pullback: HDB resale prices hit 31-month low in August
But 5-room flats and ECs bucked the trend.
New Lease Buyback Scheme to benefit 75% of elderly households: MND
The income ceiling has also been raised.
No room for luxury: Only one bungalow sold in Sentosa Cove in 1H14, reveals report
It still went for a whopping $17m.
Chart of the Day: See how crowded Singaporean homes have become
In the name of affordability.
Total private home transactions plunge 57% from January to July: report
HDB resale applications also fell by 15%.
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