Ry-Anne Lim

Ry-Anne Lim

JOURNALIST

Ry-Anne Lim is a reporter with The Business Times covering housing and property-related matters. She previously worked on the flip side, doing government communications. Ry-Anne is a graduate of the Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.

The price tag for the Nassim Road GCB works out to nearly S$4,550 per square foot.

Nassim Road bungalow changing hands for S$64.9m 

The buyer is understood to be Shiv Puri, an entrepreneur who started his own fund TVF

Sales have rebounded after the year-end lull and seasonal Chinese New Year pullback.

Near sell-out launches in March boost developer sales to 1,300 units after four slow months

New home sales are more than five times February’s figure, and up 78.3% year on year

The impact so far has been limited, with utilities forming a small share of overall costs for commercial landlords.

Power price hikes held at bay with Singapore landlords, hotel operators buffered by locked-in rates

Even as energy costs soar amid the Middle East war, real estate asset owners say the impact will be limited

CapitaLand Development's portfolio now includes 19,000 homes. Pictured is Sycamore, its large-scale residential project in Binh Duong province.
INSIDE ASEAN

Singapore developers deepen long-term bet on Vietnam

Key drivers include its young and more well-educated workforce, as well as a growing middle class

An artist's illustration of SingHaiyi's new Bayshore condominium, Vela Bay, which has started public previews.

SingHaiyi’s Vela Bay condo in Bayshore opens for sale, with prices starting at ‘above S$1.2 million’

The 515-unit project’s public preview has drawn nearly 8,000 visitors

The Peck Hay Road site is among two new private residential sites released for sale on Thursday.

URA puts up two prime condo sites in Newton, River Valley for sale

Analysts predict keen competition with up to seven or eight bids at each tender, amid robust demand for CCR homes

While residential property has delivered solid gains, observers say other assets such as equities often outpace it over the longer term.
BRUNCH

Higher costs, lower returns: Why are Singaporeans still betting on real estate?

Returns are often lower than equities, but policy and psychology keep property at the centre of wealth

With the new contracts, 25 out of Nam Cheong’s 36-vessel fleet are now under long-term charters.

Nam Cheong bags RM102.5 million in vessel charter contracts

This brings the group’s long-term coverage to 69%, just shy of its 70% target

The lease at Village Center Station I is the start of a partnership with S&P Global to curate a new workplace for its employees in the Denver area.

Prime US Reit signs 40,000 sq ft lease at Class A office building in Colorado

The 11-year lease with S&P Global will take the building’s committed occupancy to 80% from 63%

Philip Pearce, ESR Group president, notes that Singapore was always a more significant office and base than Hong Kong.

Privatisation reset puts ‘simplified’ ESR on growth path from Singapore

It has pulled US$700 million in foreign capital to Singapore over the last two years, and aims to double core AUM to more than US$80 billion by 2030