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  • Government bumps up supply of private homes for full-year 2023 to highest in a decade. Orchard Road, Zion Road sites among 8 state land plots to be offered in H2 for private housing. Charming Garden makes third and final bid at collective sale with same S$175 million guide price. When new condo units are pricier than older ones by over 70 per cent. New private home sales up 17% in May from April, on the back of a doubling in launches.      
  • Government bumps up supply of private homes for full-year 2023 to highest in a decade. Orchard Road, Zion Road sites among 8 state land plots to be offered in H2 for private housing. Charming Garden makes third and final bid at collective sale with same S$175 million guide price. When new condo units are pricier than older ones by over 70 per cent. New private home sales up 17% in May from April, on the back of a doubling in launches.      

How Should You Select an Investment Shophouse?

Picking an investment might be “easy” in some cases. See potential in Electric Vehicle brands like Tesla? Buy. See the potential in the future of E-Commerce platforms like Shopee? Buy. The decision becomes increasingly difficult when you’re dealing with a large sum of money or investments with less public information available. In our latest Insights article, we explore how you should select the right Shophouse to invest in.

The Significance of Inflation, and How It Erodes Good Debt

We often hear news of rising inflation rate, quantitative easing, and the importance of acquiring good debt being thrown around in the media. We sometimes even hear savvy investors advocating how “the rich acquire good debt, while the poor get into debt to acquire liabilities”, which begs the question: What is inflation, and how does it actually affect us? In this article, we set out to explain the significance of inflation, its underlying principles, and how it is able to erode good debts like mortgages in the long term.

Why are Shophouses a Good Investment?

Stocks, bonds, REITs, and real estate are all standard features of an investment portfolio in Singapore. But do you know that Shophouses can be a great form of real estate investment as well?

In our latest Insights article, we explore 10 main reasons why Shophouses are attractive investment opportunities.

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Landed Luxuries – Pricing of GCB in Different Regions

Good class bungalows (GCBs) are the most exclusive and esteemed type of landed housing in Singapore. GCBs represent a symbol of prestige and one may consider it as the apex of the landed housing segment. It’s no secret that GCBs come with hefty price tags to the tune of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, and what we would like to delve deeper into today is the price trends of GCBs in the different regions of Singapore – addressing questions such as whether there are any similarities in price behaviours, price quantum, or whether there is any form of price hierarchy across the different regions.

The Metaverse, NFTs, Crypto and Its Role in the Future of Real Estate

The Metaverse has been an increasingly hot topic. In fact, even Facebook has rebranded to Meta to reflect their ambitions to grow beyond social media into the Metaverse. However, what exactly is the Metaverse? Not to mention the whole other rabbit hole, which are on the topics of NFTs and Cryptocurrencies… Anyhow, how are these technologies going to change the Real Estate industry?

Going for a Resale Condo? Here’s What To Look Out For

The effects that COVID-19 has had on Singapore’s real estate scene for the past one to two years has been discussed a lot, and to the knowledge of the large majority, construction delays and demand for larger living/working spaces at home are two of such notable impacts. Consequently, we saw many prospective buyers turn to the resale market instead, as evident in the uptick in resale volume over the past 1.5 years. Be it for investment or own-stay, should you also be looking to purchase a resale unit, we have compiled five factors that you may wish to look out for.