Residential Property

More than half of home owners today bought their units in resale market

Permanet Residents are thrice as many as one would expect for a suburban private property.

More than half of home owners today bought their units in resale market

Permanet Residents are thrice as many as one would expect for a suburban private property.

The 13 most unprofitable executive condos

Chestervale is the most unprofitable with 60% of units disposed in the secondary market at a loss - check out the others.

5 worst performers in the best performing period of the property sector

Prices rose by more than 50% in the last five years but there are some who failed to ride with the tide.

CapitaLand enhances balance sheet flexibility

Aside from the establishment of a Note Programme, CapitaLand also announced its acquisition of a London hotel.

Five on Shenton sold over 150 units in just four days

Brisk sales however could be abated with the recent collapse at a construction site leaving one worker injured.

Chateau Eliza posh site gets relaunched for sale by tender

The 17,997-sq ft land currently comprises 37 residential apartments.

Chart of the Day: Cheaper units account for 27% of new sales

Lower-priced units are those sold for less than $750,000.

CapitaLand selling streak strengthens in China

It sold a brisk 812 units in the second quarter among its Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai properties to bring total units sold in 1H12 to 1,067 units.

Condo site at Tanah Merah Kechil Road drew strong interest

A consortium formed by Fragrance Group and World Class Land  topped 12 other contenders at $285 million or $676 per sq ft per plot ratio.

Chart of the Day: Take-up of shoe-box units accounts for 19% of new sales

Take-up of units smaller than 50 sqm accounted for 19% of new sales in the second quarter, less than the 27% in the previous quarter.

Low-income Singaporeans to benefit from housing grants

First-time buyers with income $1,500 and below may purchase 3-room standard flats.

HDB launches seven build-to-order projects

95% of the 4,191 new flats will be set aside for first-timers in flat allocation.

Chart of the Day: Prices of private residential properties up 0.4%

This 2nd quarter increase is compared to the 0.1% decrease in the previous quarter.

Prince Charles Crescent to go for $750 to $850 psf ppr

Knight Frank also predicts a selling price of $1,500 to $1,600 for the 2.38-ha government land residential site.

Mystery developer bids $390m for Prince Charles Crescent plot

The 2.38-ha site will be for sale by public tender in about two weeks.

Prices of small homes dipped 1.4%

Sub-index for units in Central Region also sagged 0.9%.

Home vacancies to rise by 14% in 2015

Oversupply of private homes intensify as URA raised estimates of completed homes, says CIMB.