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In danger, there’s opportunity: How SingHaiyi’s 29-year-old scion is reshaping the property group’s next chapter

How a heart-pounding tender win and a baptism of fire during the pandemic moulded SingHaiyi’s new leadership

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Published Mon, Dec 15, 2025 · 05:00 AM
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    • Gallant Tang, group CEO of SingHaiyi Group, is keen to explore new asset classes in different markets.
    • Gallant Tang, group CEO of SingHaiyi Group, is keen to explore new asset classes in different markets. PHOTO: TAY CHU YI, BT

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    [SINGAPORE] Gallant Tang still remembers the quiet panic he felt on Mar 18, while participating in a land tender for a coveted Bayshore site. It was the SingHaiyi Group’s third try at bidding for government land sale sites since the beginning of the year, after two earlier bids missed the mark.

    The tender – for a 99-year-leasehold private housing site in a popular East Coast location – had just closed, and insiders had gathered to discuss bids. 

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