THE recent sharp rise in private home prices here is not yet indicative of a bubble and prices could increase further, DBS Group research head Timothy Wong said yesterday.
‘In the mass market, what you are seeing is real end-user demand that is catching up,’ he told reporters at a briefing to present the group’s economic [...]
PRIVATE home prices shot up 7.3 per cent in the final three months of last year, allowing 2009 to finish in positive territory after a horror start.
Yesterday’s flash estimates indicated that prices overall increased by 1.7 per cent last year and it was all down to the final, frantic six months.
The 7.3 per cent jump [...]
HONG Leong Group, Far East Organization and Frasers Centrepoint have been the most active companies on the local property scene this year, making their mark in the number and value of homes sold.
Together, the three developers are likely to have raked in more than $6 billion from selling more than 5,000 private homes – mostly [...]
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has tipped the number of new private homes which could be sold this year at 14,500 – which is 98 per cent of the record 14,811 snapped up in 2007.
But the value of transactions this year is likely to fall far below that of 2007. Just $13.4 billion worth of apartments [...]