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Real estate investing is really an art and, like any art, it takes time to master the art of real estate investing. The key, of course, is to buy at a lower price and sell at higher price and make a profit even after paying all the costs involved in the two (buy/sell) transactions. Generally, people are of the opinion that real estate investing makes sense only when the rates are on the rise.
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S'poreans in JB housing nightmare back in court
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Singaporean Norsiah Suja'i thought she had found her dream home when she forked out her life savings to buy a double-storey terrace house in Johor Baru in 1998 for more than RM335,000 (S$141,500 now).
Instead, the retired teacher and 72 other Singaporeans in Taman Permata are about to lose their property to the [...]
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Use sharper tools to fix property market flaws
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I REFER to Mr Bobby Jayaraman's letter, ?New measures won't help market bloom' (Feb 23). There may be room to re-examine market statistics in greater detail and consider sharper tools to tackle specific problems instead of slapping stamp fees on sellers across the board.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority keeps statistics of [...]
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Redas chief on land supply, home prices
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Mr Cheong noted that recent measures to cool the private property market had little effect on genuine buyers and investors.
THE Government has to shoulder some of the blame for the short supply of land and high property prices, said Mr Simon Cheong, president of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore [...]
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New monthly index of private home prices
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A NEW index that tracks the price of private non-landed homes month by month has been created to help owners, investors and other property watchers keep a handle on the fast-moving market.
The Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI), as it is called, has been formulated by the National University of Singapore (NUS) after [...]
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Mixed development en bloc sales need incentives
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Collective sales of such properties tend to be slow
SINCE the phenomenon of collective sales started in 1994, there have been over 400 en bloc developments sold to date. Of these, only a handful, possibly about 10 or so, were mixed developments, that is, buildings with a variety of uses like shops, offices [...]
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New engines drive expat rental hubs
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DESMOND SIM says demand likely from financial, biomedical sectors
THE leasing market for non-landed homes showed signs of recovery in the final quarter of 2009, going by Urban Redevelopment Authority numbers. Median rents saw their first quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.5 per cent following five quarters of continued decline from a peak in [...]
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Appealing to the mass market
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Developers shift focus to affordability, say NG WEI EN and CHUA CHOR HOON
LAST year saw the second highest volume of private residential transactions in history, with the 30,830 caveats lodged falling short only of the 37,304 recorded in the 2007 boom.
A combination of factors helped to boost demand for residential property. [...]
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Landed homes: Lure of scarcity
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With relatively few landed home launches, buyers are always keen on older houses in the resale market, writes HAN HUAN MEI
WHEN private home prices made their sterling recovery in the second half of 2009, landed homes didn't miss out on the action. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) price indices for detached, semi-detached [...]
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Clinching the smartest home loan deals
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Short-term trading profits in real estate are not high, while the risks are considerable. DENNIS NG shows you the numbers
IT'S tough enough figuring out which housing loan package is the best for you. But how will the latest changes in property financing rules affect your property purchase'
The recent curbs on the property [...]
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Sustaining an upturn
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THE property market has made a dramatic recovery over the past year. In the residential sector, prices of mass-market homes have even surpassed their 2007 peak. Expectations are running high that some time this year too the luxury segment will touch 2007 record highs.
Things are also picking up in the office [...]
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