Posted on April 29, 2008 by lushhomeonline
AN EARLY success story in Contact Singapore’s 11-year history is Genesis-Alliance.
The boutique property and lifestyle company is now building 31 ‘ultra high-end’ villas in Sentosa and has opened the region’s first Armani/Casa home furnishing store in Raffles Hotel.
Malaysian businessman Derek Wong, whose net worth is estimated to be $150 million, set up Genesis-Alliance after he [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2008 by lushhomeonline
Straight-talker Dr Tony Tan has never been afraid to air contrarian views on the country’s economy
CRYSTAL ball-gazing is a risky business. Miss the mark and it’s egg on your face. Hit the bullseye and acclaim follows.
Of course, whether there is a reaction at all can depend on who you are and whether people even remember [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by lushhomeonline
I REFER to the report, ‘Issues of cost, procedures bubble up in new en bloc rules’ (BT, April 12), which mentioned that the Ministry of Law is planning to review the recently amended legislation governing en bloc sales.
I urge the government to take a more holistic approach in reviewing the whole issue of en bloc [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by lushhomeonline
CapitaLand’s Liew Mun Leong talks to VIKRAM KHANNA about his journey to the corporate world and the new dynamics of S’pore’s property market
‘I SPENT 22 years in the civil service, but people never believed I was a civil servant,’ says CapitaLand’s CEO, Liew Mun Leong, winner of the outstanding CEO award at the 2006 Singapore [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by lushhomeonline
DESPITE the US subprime crisis, which will have a cyclical impact, Liew Mun Leong remains bullish on Singapore’s property market in the medium term.
‘Main street America is suffering from the sins and mistakes of Wall Street,’ he says. ‘And when main street gets hit, that will affect Asia, we can’t run away from it.’
However, Singapore’s [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by lushhomeonline
Sustainability is about retrofitting a city and allowing for local initiatives, reports MATTHEW PHAN
MALONE-LEE Lai Choo, director of the environmental management programme at the National University of Singapore, is no stranger to city planning. Prior to academic life, she headed the conservation division at the Urban Redevelopment Authority and was deputy director of strategic planning [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by lushhomeonline
Do you agree that business confidence in Singapore is at its lowest point in several years? Why? What can be done to boost confidence here?
S’pore / Region remains sound
WE ARE currently witnessing a crisis of confidence brought about by several forces, including high energy and commodity prices, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, reduced liquidity, the weakening [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by lushhomeonline
What would be the impact of increasingly higher energy prices and a weakening US dollar — and hence a sharply stronger Singapore dollar — on businesses here? What can be done to combat the negative impact, and exploit the opportunities, of these twin developments?
Predeep Menon Executive Director & CEO Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by lushhomeonline
A FEW years back, Liew Mun Leong, chief executive of CapitaLand, came to Singapore Press Holdings and gave a talk to journalists. His talk left a deep impression on me.
The topic was how he saw the property market going through a strategic inflection point. Mr Liew drew the idea of strategic inflection point from the [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by lushhomeonline
As credit crunch lays rivals low, it’s ready to swoop on bargains in next 2 years: CEO
A LOT of opportunities will be thrown up in the real estate market in the next two years and CapitaLand is well placed to take advantage of them, chief executive Liew Mun Leong says.
‘There will be distressed properties, distressed [...]
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