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Scotts Square at S$320 Million: The Orchard Discount Is the Story, Not the Deal
A freehold Orchard-fringe mall is changing hands at roughly 29% below its 2024 ask while a refurbished Farrer Park block asks 49% more than it cost — and both trades say the same thing about what commercial capital will pay for now.
731 Homes in July, 482 From Two Projects: Dunearn House and Lentor Gardens Residences Are Doing the Market's Work
Singapore's July developer sales rebound was manufactured by a launch calendar, not a change of heart among buyers — and the standing inventory numbers prove it.
Hong Heng Garden's S$130 Million Question: The Site Across the Road Already Tried This
Hong Heng Garden at 33 Sembawang Road is asking S$1,128 psf ppr for a freehold plot in Springleaf — three years after the freehold block opposite failed to find a buyer at a higher rate.
Kallang Distripark: 2,000-Plus Homes on Private Land, and Nobody Has to Bid for It
URA's proposed Master Plan amendment turns a 13ha rubber warehouse site into three housing plots and a park — but because the land is privately held, the usual state price signal never arrives.
VERS at 65%: Singapore Just Set a Consent Threshold for Private En Bloc. The Hard Part for Old HDB Flats Is the Price.
The Land Titles (Strata) (Amendment) Bill's 65% threshold for 60-year-old developments is being read as a template for VERS — but a vote is only as valuable as the offer it accepts.
Maju Forest and Gillman Barracks: Fewer Homes Is Now the Stated Price of Keeping the Trees
The state has put the housing-versus-greenery trade-off on the record for two named sites — and the Dover Forest precedent shows exactly how that compromise plays out for buyers.
The $29,000 Median: What Property Agents Actually Earn, and Why It Decides How Your Home Gets Sold
Half of Singapore's active agents took home under $60,000 in gross commission last year — and that arithmetic, not the headline 2 per cent, is what shapes the marketing behind your listing.
Orchard Boulevard and Marina Gardens Lane: The Analysts Disagree by 24%, and That Gap Is the Real Story
URA's two prime Government Land Sales tenders close two weeks apart in October — and the published bid forecasts are so far apart that the tenders themselves, not the commentary, will set the price of central Singapore land.
The 35% Rule: Singapore's New En Bloc Bill Makes Starting a Collective Sale Harder Than Finishing One
Everyone is reading the headline numbers — 70% and 65%. The number that will actually decide which ageing condos sell is the one at the front of the process, not the end.
The S$5.5 Million Deal That Stalled: Why Singapore Buyers Sign the OTP Before Anyone Reads the Title
Singapore's conveyancing sequence puts binding money on the table weeks before the searches come back — and in a market growing 1.4% a year, that ordering error is expensive.
Zion Road Cleared, Upper Thomson Didn't: URA's Long-Stay Serviced Apartment Pilot Has a Location Problem
Three government sites tested the SA2 long-stay category. Only the prime one drew a bid — and that tells private landlords more about their own rental income than any index does.
Paragon at S$3.9 Billion, Asia Square Tower 2 at S$2.43 Billion: What Record Commercial Inflows Do — and Don't Do — for Home Prices
Singapore commercial property is on course for its biggest year on record, but the money is walled off from housing by design — and the URA price index proves it.