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This blog post will share with you the bloody truth of buyers who overpaid for their homes at new launch. We will also look at condominiums that once set new price record in their respective district during launch and how they are doing now.
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- Market Update
Singapore’s private home market was a pool of stagnant water...
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About PropertySoul.com. I am a property enthusiast. When I was in my 20s, I came to Singapore where I bought my first condominium unit in 2002. I added four more to my property portfolio in four and a half years’ time.
- A Waning New Home Market
- Most Top Condos Still Have Leftover Units
- Hard Times Ahead For Developers’ New Home Sales
- Wrong Bet of Developers in The Singapore Residential Market
- Food For Thought
For once not to the liking of the SPH media, Bloomberg followed up with the article “Singapore home sales plunge to lowest since May 2020 on curbs”. To our surprise, the spokesperson from OrangeTee mentioned “the war in Ukraine roils equity markets and raises the prices of commodities” as the main cause behind Singapore’s disappointing new home sal...
In late January, PropertyGuru posted an article titled “29 TOP Condos in 2022 for Those Who Need to Move In Urgently”. With delays in construction and completion of BTO projects, it is a comfort to learn that 29 new condos will obtain TOP this year. One more piece of good news: A check with URA’s data shows that the majority of these brand new priv...
For developers, it will continue to be a bumpy ride ahead in Singapore’s private residential market for three reasons: Although we hardly see any new launch these days, there is a long queue of over 40 new projects in CCR, OCR and RCR waiting to be launched. Developers are holding back condo launch because of lack of confidence to do so. Uncertaint...
Singapore is well known for its harsh property cooling measures. Since Covid-19, governments all over the world keep printing money, cut interest rates to boost asset prices. Housing prices skyrocketed in many countries. But we can hardly find a country like Singapore that the government will impose property cooling measures after a 10.6 percent an...
In November 2017, Cheung Kong’s Li Ka-shing sold Shanghai’s Century Link and Hong Kong’s The Center for record $2.96 billion and $5.15 billion respectively. The buyers were from mainland China. With funding from the two deals, in June 2018 he paid £1 billion to acquire 5 Broadgate in London and tenanted it to UBS as the bank’s London headquarters. ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Singapore’s private home market was a pool of stagnant water in the last two months. We can’t blame developers for holding back new launches for three months. After all, it was traumatic in mid-August to sell only 53 units across three new projects during the same first launch weekend.
Sharing neutral and unbiased views of the Singapore property market with fellow home buyers and property investors.
Apr 14, 2021 · Vina Ip, aka, Property Soul, started blogging about her property investing journey and experiences since 2010 on her website. She published her first book, “No B.S. Guide to Property Investment” in 2014 which was well received by the investment community for her unbiased opinion on investing in Singapore properties.
Mar 6, 2020 · I have developed a strong passion for properties since young. In my 20s, I was relocated to Singapore where I bought my first condominium unit at the end of 2002. I added four more to my property portfolio in 4 ½ years’ time. I never expected their total value could be doubled in just a few years.
