Cooling measures cited as key risk by Singapore real-estate market, poll finds

COOLING measures have been named as the biggest risk faced by Singapore's real-estate market, a poll among senior executives of real-estate firms has found.

Of the approximately 50 such executives surveyed in March, 87.8 per cent indicated the possibility of cooling measures as a potential risk which may hit market sentiment in the next six months. This is almost double the previous quarter's 44.7 per cent.

This finding came from the latest Real Estate Sentiment Index published by the National University of Singapore Real Estate (NUS+RE), which represents the Department of Real Estate and the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies at the university.