Residential Property
Private home prices slid 1.1% in Q2: URA
Private home prices slid 1.1% in Q2: URA
This represents a second consecutive quarter decline in the prices of private homes.
Chart of the Day: New home sales surged 75% in May
Resale segment slumped 53% to 174 units.
Chart of the Day: Landed property prices dip 0.9% in Q1
This was the first quarter of decline for the index.
Chart of the Day: RCR posts lowest new launches for 2020
This is out of the 9,000 pipeline launches this year.
Chart of the Day: Locals take the bulk of private home purchases
This amounts to 78% of homebuyers in Q1.
Chart of the Day: Only 6.3% of home units in the pipeline were launched in Q1
This amounts to 2,093 private residential units.
Singapore launches 12 sites for H2 GLS programme
These can yield up to 6,670 private residential units and 101,500 sqm of commercial space.
Chart of the Day: Non-landed purchases across all residential status slid in Q1
Foreign purchasers recorded the largest fall of 26.1%.
Chart of the Day: Units priced less than $1.5m more popular in Q1
CCR buyers recorded the most transactions with 57%.
Chart of the day: Launched units in OCR halved in Q1
This is attributed to the lack of large-scale launches.
Chart of the Day: 500-700 sqft flats take up most of non-landed unit sales in Q1
This unit size range mainly consists of one- and two-bedroom units.
Chart of the Day: Nearly half of Q1 transactions go to $1-1.5m non-landed units
Majority of these transactions are new sale units in districts 5, 7, 14 and 19.
KKR, Temasek acquire minority stake in real estate developer Vinhomes
It was acquired for $907m (US$650m).
Chart of the day: New sales of private homes plummeted 62.4% YoY in April
This is due to closures of condominium show flats.
New home sales soared 75.5% MoM in May: URA
This appears to be largely driven by locals and investors.
Hmlet opens five branches in Tokyo
The co-living space operator also picked internally for new CTO and CFO.
Chart of the day: Launched units in CCR surged 63.6% in Q1
This was mainly led by the high takeup rate for The M.
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