Property 2022 (Oct issue)
Attracting and retaining office tenants in the post-pandemic world
THE Covid-19 pandemic has upended the way we work as well as altered the workforce’s priorities and expectations of its workplaces. The formula for landlords to attract and retain office tenants has t...
Are landed homes becoming a wealth preservation asset?
2021 was a sterling year for the landed homes market as it recorded the highest sales volume since 2010 with more than 3,000 transactions. The sales momentum was mainly driven by the pandemic, which d...
Public housing with million-dollar price tags
PRIOR to 2012, paying S$1 million – or more – for a HDB flat was unheard of. In 2012, two HDB resale flats were sold at those price levels. Since then, million-dollar HDB resale flats are becoming mor...
No signs of cooling for the rental market in 2022
If there is one word to describe the 2022 rental market in Singapore, it is hot.
The return of the strata retail market
The retail sector took a beating from the pandemic-led recession of 2020 and the social mobility restrictions that characterised much of 2021. As the nation pivots to endemic living, the strata-retail...
Pricing mass market homes for HDB upgraders
Private homes in suburban areas, also referred to as the Outside Central Region (OCR), tend to be the entry point into private housing for many Singaporean households as they are generally priced lowe...
Investment potential of executive condominiums
EXECUTIVE condominiums (ECs) are highly attractive to HDB upgraders for their affordability and investment potential. While new ECs are equipped and furnished like private homes, they are priced about...
Luxury non-landed private residential market returns to a world without borders
When the additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD) for foreigners was raised from 20 per cent to 30 per cent on Dec 16, 2021, people could not be faulted for harbouring the view that the luxury segment of ...
Singapore hotels remain an attractive asset class for investment as recovery takes hold
HOTELS in Singapore are witnessing a rapid bounce-back in performance, as travel rebounds with the full reopening of international borders in late April.
Multi-faceted industrial market in Apac has diverse growth opportunities
AN uncertain trajectory of inflation and rising interest rates have fuelled a gap in buyer-seller expectations and slowed industrial investment in the Asia-Pacific (Apac), but the region’s growth stor...