4 bungalows sold for $5.5m each

$22 million transaction works out to $1,128 psf of built-up area
AMID the current quiet residential market, some deals are still being stitched up.
All four strata bungalows in a freehold cluster housing development near Eng Neo Avenue were snapped up at $5.5 million each at a preview on Friday last week by a European with a [...]

Worldly pursuits in Dubai

No doubt about it - The World in Dubai belongs to the rich and famous. This cluster of real estate is shaped like a map of Earth
YOU can buy Australia, New Zealand, Shanghai or even the Antarctica, and develop it into a private kingdom.
But first, you have to be invited to purchase this exclusive piece [...]

Luxury home prices down 2.1%, says report

Number of foreign purchases fall; many buying homes in suburban areas
HIGH-END homes have become the first to buckle under the pressure of volatile market conditions and gloomy buyer sentiment.
Prices of luxury developments dipped in the first three months of this year, even as foreign buyers - a traditional source of demand for such properties - [...]

Parc Seabreeze

Preview by appointment…
Address: 532 Joo Chiat Road
Tenure: Freehold
Expected Completion: Mar 2012
Site Area: 58,750 sqft
Description: 20 storey in one tower block
Total Units: 94

 

Unit Types:
3 bedrooms ~ 1314-1398 sqft
4 bedrooms ~ 1625-1647 sqft
3+1 penthouse ~ 2347 sqft
4+1 penthouse ~ 3004 sqft
Facilities: Basement Carpark (103 lots), Landscape Deck, Sky Terrace, Children Play Area, Lap Pools, Social Pool, Children [...]

Two industrial sites, good class bungalow up for sale

TWO freehold industrial sites - at 18 Howard Road and 27 New Industrial Road, in the north-eastern part of Singapore - are for sale by tender at indicative prices of $30 million ($272 per sq ft per plot ratio) and $14 million ($278 psf ppr) respectively.
Charles Hoon, director of investment properties at marketing agent CB [...]

St Regis, Singapore

IF YOU’RE really, really too time-strapped to spare a three or four-hour flight out of Singapore, there’s the St Regis: for the waited-on-hand-and-foot experience.
St Regis is the only hotel in Singapore to offer butler services to all guests now that it’s open.
For some folks, this service takes some getting used to. For example, even though [...]

Symphony of class and prestige

VINCENT WEE checks out some of the premier residential developments in Singapore’s southern waterfront precinct
THE emergence of the concept of waterfront living is relatively recent in pragmatic Singapore where precious waterside real estate has always been the preserve of the all-important marine industry. But, in many other parts of the world, the waterfront has always [...]

Commercial unit, GCB for sale by tender

A LARGE commercial unit at The Riverwalk, Upper Circular Road, is up for sale at an indicative price of $23 million.
The unit, which has a strata area of 20,161 sq ft that represents a 12.11 per cent ownership stake, is owned by private investors. The indicative price works out to about $1,140 per square foot.
CB [...]

Singapore luxury home prices surge 31%

WHEN it comes to luxury homes in prime locations, Singapore had the eighth-most expensive properties in the world last year, ahead of cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris.
Average prices of top-end properties in the Republic rose by 31 per cent to £1,197 (S$3,232) per sq ft (psf), the sixth-biggest price jump globally, according [...]

Restoring old glory

Amber Road will enjoy a clubhouse that has been restored to its historic grandeur.
Developer Wheelock Properties said it spent $1.3 million to conserve, retrofit and furnish the double-storey building.
The stately bungalow was built in the 1900s, along what was then the seaside at Katong. Then known as The Pavilion, it was owned by the Elias [...]