Singapore Property Guides Archive

  • Guillemard Edge

    Guillemard Edge

    Guillemard Edge VVIP PREVIEW book Now- Hotline: +6594790133 Guillemard Edge set to rise from the heart of Geylang Lorong 30(Address) Guillemard Edge floor plans soon and Price PSF will be attractively priced to sell for strategic investors. Enjoy sensational shopping, Savour delectable dishes. You will find countless options for entertainment, dining and rejuvenation within minutes [...]
  • Hot Property: Industrial real estate

    Hot Property: Industrial real estate

    Straits Times: Sat, Jan 28 FACTORIES and warehouses were the top-performing real estate sector last year, thanks to robust demand for industrial property. Prices shot up 27.2 per cent over 2010 while rents rose 15.5 per cent. In comparison, prices for office properties were 13.8 per cent higher and prices for shop properties edged up [...]
  • Private property prices and rentals at standstill

    Private property prices and rentals at standstill

    Business Times: Sat, Jan 28 (Singapore) PRICE rises for private homes almost ground to a halt last quarter while rental increases also tapered off. The latest official data has sparked a discussion in property circles on whether the market has peaked. Most observers say that either the peak has already been touched, or will be [...]
  • Private home owners paid highest COV in Q4: Khaw

    Private home owners paid highest COV in Q4: Khaw

    Business Times: Thu, Jan 19 PRIVATE property owners paid the highest median cash over valuation (COV) amount for resale HDB flats in the last quarter of 2011, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. Writing in his blog under the heading ‘Who Bids High?’, Mr Khaw revealed that private property owners paid the highest [...]
  • Kovan residential site draws top bid of $194.6m

    Kovan residential site draws top bid of $194.6m

    Business Times: Thu, Jan 19 (SINGAPORE) Suburban sites continue to receive keen interest in spite of market cooling measures and the wider economic uncertainty. Yesterday’s tender closing for the prime residential site at Kovan Road/Simon Road garnered 11 bids, of which a consortium comprising Hoi Hup Realty, Investment Focus, and Oriental Worldwide Investments emerged the [...]
  • Showflat not ready, but buyers lap up Watertown

    Showflat not ready, but buyers lap up Watertown

    Straits Times: Thu, Jan 19 HOME buyers, undeterred by recent tough market cooling measures, turned up in strong numbers at the preview of Watertown at Punggol Central yesterday. Far East Organization said more than 160 units out of the 250 units launched were snapped up, with Singaporeans making up more than 90 per cent of [...]
  • Far East: Cooling steps may need tweaking

    Far East: Cooling steps may need tweaking

    Straits Times: Wed, Jan 18 THE recent property cooling measures might have to be fine-tuned, depending on how persistently sales volumes drop, according to Far East Organization chief executive Philip Ng. He told a briefing yesterday that the 10 per cent additional buyer’s stamp duty for foreigners is ‘a very big number’. He also said [...]
  • SPH’s joint bid tops Sengkang site tender

    SPH’s joint bid tops Sengkang site tender

    Straits Times: Wed, Jan 18 A JOINT venture comprising Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the United Engineers Group has lodged the top bid of $328 million for a commercial site in Sengkang. The offer by Earth Holdings, as the joint venture is called, works out to $1,156 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr). [...]
  • Surbana finds good prospects in mass housing projects in Asia, Middle East

    Surbana finds good prospects in mass housing projects in Asia, Middle East

    Business Times: Mon, Jan 16 (SINGAPORE) Singapore-based consultancy and township development company Surbana is gunning for a larger share of the mass market housing business in Asia and the Middle East. The firm’s top executive said in a recent interview with The Business Ti… (SINGAPORE) Singapore-based consultancy and township development company Surbana is gunning for [...]
  • Cisco Systems expected to sign UE Bizhub East lease

    Cisco Systems expected to sign UE Bizhub East lease

    Business Times: Mon, Jan 16 CISCO Systems is understood to be close to sealing a deal to lease about 110,000 square feet of space at UE Bizhub East at Changi Business Park. This may be the latest case of an MNC relocating from Singapore’s Central Business District to the subu… CISCO Systems is understood to [...]
  • Home buyers turn cautious

    Home buyers turn cautious

    Straits Times: Mon, Jan 16 IT IS the week before Chinese New Year and home buyers, while still turning up in healthy numbers at show-flats, prefer to remain cautious and keep their options open. A Straits Times check over the weekend unearthed a steady stream of visitors … IT IS the week before Chinese New [...]
  • Steady sales at office, industrial projects

    Steady sales at office, industrial projects

    Business Times: Thu, Jan 12 A STEADY stream of sales has been achieved for strata office and industrial units in two new projects that went on the market in late December. The Low Keng Huat, Guthrie and Sun Venture consortium developing Paya Lebar Square, an office and retail project, has sold about 60 strata office [...]