Singapore Property Frontiers

Cushman and Wakefiled’s Donald Han offers his views on the property market in the Channel NewsAsia programme, When The Bears Are Out - Invest Wise, hosted by Lin Xueling.
What are your favourite locations at the moment? And for which categories?
It all depends on your investment profile and investment criteria. I always say that you should [...]

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WITH probably less than 350 completed office and industrial buildings in Singapore available for sale on a strata basis, transaction volumes have been steadily rising with more investors seeing an upside.
In a White Paper, Colliers International notes that since 2006, the strata office sector saw sales transactions rise 59.1 per cent from 2005 levels while [...]

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Investors check out posh units in cities like London, where values have fallen
As the global credit crunch drags on, home prices are falling all over the world, from Britain and Spain to India and Australia.
But in Singapore, property values are proving stubbornly resilient. Private home prices continued to climb 4.2 per cent in the first [...]

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For investment, emerging localities are preferable to established and often saturated ones any time - ANUJ PURI
IN Indian real estate today, the only constant is change. Hot destinations of the last year are not assuredly the best options this year, and the next year brings its unique set of emerging investment destinations with it.
The reason [...]

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Asia’s retail and hospitality sectors are expected to benefit from strong growth in intra-regional travel, reports UMA SHANKARI
DEVELOPERS are investing in the retail and hospitality sectors in Singapore and the rest of Asia in a big way, banking on an expected surge in retail spending and tourism.
Consumer spending in the region is supported by rising [...]

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Cityscape Asia is drawing a great deal of interest from major western developers
THE global real estate sector is going through big changes and this could not be more apparent at this year’s Cityscape Asia 2008.
While Cityscape Asia is an Asia-focused real estate exhibition and conference, several major western developers are offering developments to Asian investors [...]

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Property investment sales rose nearly 3 percent to S$8.36 billion in the first quarter compared to the previous three months. But this was still 36.6 percent below the peak of S$13.2 billion worth of sales amassed in the third quarter last year.
This is according to latest figures from property consultants Colliers International.
Colliers said with the [...]

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Non-landed residential market most likely to gain from influx of foreign talent, say CHUA YANG LIANG and JACQUELINE WONG
SINGAPORE’S non-landed residential market put in a strong performance last year, sub-prime notwithstanding, driven by the luxury and prime segments whose resale capital values saw stunning year-on-year growth of 51.7 per cent and 50.6 per cent respectively.
Lights, [...]

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There are still pockets of new developments in Singapore that are priced below $1,000 per sq ft, writes PETER OW
HOUSE hunting can be challenging at a time when sellers are holding firm despite a quieter property market while buyers are expecting a steeper discount based on weaker sentiment from the US sub-prime woes.
Those on a [...]

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IT was an eventful 2007 for the Singapore property investment sales market, which hit a record $55.29 billion in volume of transactions. This was 81 per cent higher than the previous record of $30.59 billion in 2006. The robust momentum in the investment market was largely driven by active acquisition of development sites by developers [...]

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