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Singapore real estate offers best Asia-Pac bets: report

Transactions in Republic surged in H1 2019, with most activity driven by cross-border capital; volumes in H2 are expected to be strong

Published Tue, Nov 12, 2019 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

SINGAPORE's real estate now offers the best investment prospects in the Asia-Pacific but investors will have to work hard to clinch their prized asset.

Not surprisingly Hong Kong fared the worst, ranking 22 out of 22 cities in the region, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Asia-Pacific 2020 report, by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC.

The Lion City witnessed a surge in transactions in the first half of 2019, with most activity driven by cross-border capital, and volumes in the second half of the year are expected to be strong, the report said.

Today, the office sector in the market has largely absorbed the oversupply of recent years and with vacancies now at an…

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