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29.03.26 - 14:12
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How Singapore and Australia Took Opposite Paths on Housing (Bloomberg)
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As homeownership drifts further out of reach, governments are looking for new ways to help first-time buyers come up with the money. In Australia, economist Saul Eslake argues that letting buyers tap retirement savings or reduce down payments only puts more upward pressure on prices. In Singapore, economist Sumit Agarwal points to a very different system: mandatory savings there can be used for housing, but steep taxes discourage buying second and third homes. Through the experiences of first-time buyers Jordan Davies in Melbourne and Jeff Chie in Singapore, the story explores whether easier access to capital really helps people buy homes or simply makes housing even more expensive. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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10.03.26 - 01:36
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Singapore property clan puts rare Hong Kong estate up for US$38.4 million tender (SCMP)
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A Singapore-rooted property family has put a rare residential estate in Hong Kong's Southern district up for tender at about HK$300 million (US$38.4 million), testing demand for trophy homes as the city's luxury housing market shows early signs of recovery despite soft prices.
The tender for Belvedere, a low-density compound in Chung Hom Kok, would close at noon on April 28, according to marketing agent JLL. The property had been held by Remadour Estate since 1993, Land Registry records......
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12.12.25 - 12:36
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Hongkong Land poised to launch US$6 billion Singapore property fund (SCMP)
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Hongkong Land is set to launch what it expects to be the largest private real estate fund in Singapore, with more than S$8 billion (US$6.2 billion) in assets under management, including prime commercial projects in the waterfront Marina Bay district.
At inception, the Singapore Central Private Real Estate Fund (SCPREF) would include one-third stakes in One Raffles Quay and Marina Bay Financial Centre Towers 1 and 2, the Hong Kong-based commercial landlord and developer said in a statement on......
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28.08.25 - 04:12
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JD′s property arm joins 2 firms in US$1 billion Singapore Reit: sources (SCMP)
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The property investment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com and two other firms plan to launch a Singapore-based real estate investment trust (Reit) with assets potentially valued at more than US$1 billion, said two sources with knowledge of the matter.
JD Property, the unlisted infrastructure investment and asset management platform of JD.com, is setting up the Reit with Swiss investment firm Partners Group and EZA Hill Property, which is backed by Asian investment firm Hillhouse, the......
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