Quieter year seen ahead after 'tale of two halves'

[SINGAPORE] Coming on the heels of a dramatic year peppered with policies aimed at cooling the property market and a number of firsts in public housing, 2014 appears poised to be a more subdued year by comparison.

Consultants say it is unlikely that the government will roll out any new policies next year, even though they do not rule out some tweaking of existing measures.

"Policy changes, if any, may most likely be of the 'unwinding' kind - that is, rolling back earlier policies," said Chua Yang …