BT's Top Stories from Last Week
Bukit Sembawang's Liv @ MB sells over 75% of units on launch weekend
Bukit Sembawang Estates' condominium project Liv @ MB in the Mountbatten area has sold more than 75 per cent of its 298 units, at an average selling price of S$2,387 per square foot (psf), Bukit Sembawang said in a press statement.
Singapore's half-open nightclubs signal a sad, weird new normal
Clubs were allowed to reopen last month. A few opted to remain shut. Others welcomed guests, but (bizarrely) offered no dance floor. Some, like Zouk, one of the country's largest, reopened, only to be shut temporarily by the authorities days later for flouting "intermingling" rules among club-goers.
More Singapore developers looking to hike condo launch prices
Homebuyers have to brace themselves for higher prices as about 71 per cent of developers expect unit prices of new launches in the next 6 months to be moderately or substantially higher, the results of a poll revealed.
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Singtel H2 net profit rises to S$994.5m; proposes final dividend of S$0.048
Singtel on Friday (May 27) reported S$994.5 million in net profit for the second half ended March 2022, up more than 10 times from S$87.6 million in H2 FY2021.
Singapore's beloved chicken rice is about to get more expensive
The export ban will likely further push up the price of chicken, Singapore's most widely-consumed meat, which rose 5.7 per cent in April, said Lee Ju Ye, an economist at Maybank Investment Banking Group.
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