Real Estate Crowdfunding – A Growing Trend?

By Getty Goh& Dr SehHuanKiat (Guest Contributors) In the recent Budget Speech, Singapore’s Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam commented that the government was studying the potential of equity crowdfunding. To the casual observer, this may appear to be just...

Singapore Property News This Week #144

Residential New launches to boost private housing sales New property launches are expected to give a boost to developers’ private housing sales in February and March, after only 565 units being sold in the primary market in January 2014. Although this figure for...

Property Market in 2014 – A Watershed Year?

By Property Soul (guest contributor) The property market in 2014 started with a series of bad news from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Housing and Development Board (HDB). How bad are the numbers? On 2nd January 2014, HDB announced that the HDB Resale...

When a Property Billionaire Turns Bearish

By Mr. Propwise It is a rare occasion when a billionaire property developer talks the market down. Kwek Leng Beng, Chairman of City Developments Limited (CDL), a leading real estate developer in Singapore, did just that recently when he called buying land in Singapore...