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Blackstone bets on S'pore luxury property market

It believes success of govt measures to cool real estate market means curbs are set to be lifted

Published Wed, Apr 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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BLACKSTONE Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, who correctly bet on a US housing recovery, is now making a similar wager on Singapore's luxury property market.

Singapore's success in using administrative measures to cool its real estate market - luxury prices have fallen about 20 per cent in the past two years while Hong Kong's have kept rising - means the restrictions are likely to get lifted, the Blackstone chairman said last week. His firm has been investing in high-end developments over the past four months.

Property has become Blackstone's biggest profit driver as record-low interest rates and a US econom…

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