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Seeing positives for Singapore Reits from investors’ support of Keppel Reit’s DPU-dilutive MBFC Tower 3 acquisition

With demand for office trusts focused in the Republic despite lower yields, more capital should be allocated domestically

Building new EC homes in prime locations will expand housing choices for locals.
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Timely to consider introducing a prime executive condo model

Build new ECs in choice locations and sell such homes with tighter restrictions

Crossing the Causeway for shopping and leisure will get much easier when the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link becomes operational.
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Will FCT’s Causeway Point reel from the opening of the Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link?

Busy Singapore residents who value convenience will continue to support strong suburban malls here

Increasing landed housing stock can help meet the aspirations of high-income earners to own landed homes.
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Optimise land use: Build 5-storey landed homes 

Taller houses occupying smaller land plots won’t destroy the character of landed housing estates

The new Town Hall Link white site has the critical mass needed to catalyse the next phase of Jurong Lake District's development.
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Expect carved-out Jurong Lake District site to draw warm response from developers

Town Hall Link white site is expected to be made available in March 2026

Condo buying by foreigners and investors could jump if ABSD is relaxed.
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Imagining a housing market without ABSD

A world where the private homes market has fewer shackles and all locals can buy new HDB flats

City Developments Limited's executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng (right) and his son and group CEO Sherman are prominent second and third generation property leaders, respectively.
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Can Singapore family-owned property empires last far beyond three generations?

Applying lessons from Geneva’s Pictet family 

Dreams of condo and car ownership may get harder for upper-middle-income households to realise, even if such households enjoy steady income growth. 
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Are condo and car ownership getting harder for Singapore’s upper middle class?

Rise in private-home prices and car COE premiums outpaces income growth of 80th percentile of households

Amid strong new condo sales in H2 2025, trimming new housing supply from confirmed list sites in the H1 2026 GLS programme may be counter-intuitive.
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Should the government have boosted housing supply in its H1 2026 land sales programme?

More supply could help meet robust demand from homebuyers and developers, moderate prices and generate more economic activity

Low interest rates may not be sufficient to keep private housing demand buoyant in 2026.
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Housing developers should brace for rougher conditions in 2026

Slower economy, more tepid HDB resale market and stiff competition for land await