SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - Commercial real estate investment activity in Asia Pacific (Apac) clocked in at US$27 billion ($36 billion) in 1Q2023, according to data compiled by global real estate consulting firm JLL. This represents a 30% y-o-y drop compared to 1Q2022. The fall in investment volume follows interest rate headwinds and asset price adjustments, states JLL. “The market continues to be...
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - Knight Frank’s Prime International Residential Index 100 (PIRI 100), which tracks and analyses prime price performance in 100 cities and second home markets worldwide, increased by 8.4% in 2021, up from 2% in 2020, according to the real estate consultancy’s annual The Wealth Report. This is the highest annual increase in the value of the index since it was launched in...
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - HDB will offer to buy back public housing flats from owners who face difficulties in selling due to the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) quotas.
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - Property developers sold 527 private residential units (excluding executive condos) in February, a 22.5% m-o-m drop from January’s 680 units, according to URA. On a y-o-y basis, it is an 18.3% drop from 645 units in February 2021.“February is traditionally a slow month as the Lunar New Year tends to fall in this month,” notes Lee Sze Teck, Huttons Asia senior director of...
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has announced that strata subdivision of commercial complexes or mixed-use developments with a commercial component will no longer be allowed in Central areas. This includes the Orchard Road and Scotts Road stretch, the CBD areas of Robinson Road and Shenton Way and the areas surrounding the Padang and War Memorial Park.“In general,...
Singapore (Edgeprop) - Total shophouse transaction value in Singapore crossed the billion-dollar mark in 2021, reaching a total of $1.9 billion in sales, according to a research report by Knight Frank.Historically, this is the highest transaction value ever recorded for shophouses, beating values achieved in both 2019 and 2020 combined. Sales values in 2019 and 2020 came in at $915.9 million and $912.7...
Singapore (Edgeprop) - An annual survey by CBRE has found that Singapore is the third preferred destination for cross-border real estate investment in 2022, after Tokyo and Shanghai. The survey, which covers all property types, polled more than 530 Asia Pacific-based investors. This is the third consecutive year Tokyo has topped the list. Greg Hyland, CBRE’s head of capital markets, Asia Pacific,...
Singapore (Edgeprop) - Developers sold 650 new residential units (excluding executive condos or ECs) in December 2021 - a decline of 58% from the 1,547 units sold in November.Including ECs, new home sales fell by 55.4% m-o-m, from 1,611 units sold in November, to 719 units in December.Compared to 2020, new sales excluding ECs declined by 46.6% y-o-y from 1,217 units.Consultants say the lower sales volume...
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) - According to the latest quarterly investment report by Knight Frank Singapore, the last quarter of 2021 raked in $7.3 billion worth of real estate investment volume. This brought the total investment volume for the entire year to $25.8 billion and is a 5.3% y-o-y increase from the $24.5 billion that was recorded in 2020.The bulk of investment transactions in 4Q2021 came from the...
SINGAPORE (EDGEPROP) – The private residential market saw a surge in home prices last quarter, jumping 5% q-o-q according to the latest flash estimate of the price index by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.The latest quarterly report is a sharp increase compared to the 1.1% q-o-q increase that was registered by the private residential market in 3Q2021.For the whole of 2021, the price index for the...
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