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High Point’s unchanged S$580 million price puts Orchard redevelopment risk back on trial
The sixth collective-sale attempt preserves owners’ expectations for the Mount Elizabeth site. It also exposes the harder question left by the previous failed campaign: whether a developer can make the numbers work.
Yishun 10’s 110-home replacement will intensify the MRT hub, not transform the whole estate
The confirmed mixed-use redevelopment puts private housing on an exceptionally connected parcel. Its larger consequence is a denser Yishun Central—not a town-wide property price reset.
Martin Modern and Wallich Residence Lead First Auction of Homes Forfeited in S$3 Billion Case
Ten confirmed units, priced from S$2.238 million to S$6.78 million, will test demand in two distinct prime-city markets—but guide prices are not proof of forced-sale bargains.
New Upper Changi Road’s S$1,537 psf ppr bid signals conviction — not yet a land award
The UOL–CapitaLand Development–SingLand consortium has outbid three rivals for the Bedok parcel. Its unusually wide lead matters, but it does not confirm launch prices or an estate-wide uplift.
80 Forfeited Homes in Nine Months: The S$3 Billion Auction Will Reset Sentosa Cove and District 9 Prices
From 7 September, the state begins selling more than 80 properties seized in Singapore's S$3 billion money laundering case — and in thin luxury sub-markets, that is enough to rewrite the comparables.
6.66% There, 1.4% Here: The Number That Actually Sizes Your Singapore Home Loan Is 4.00%
US 30-year mortgages are stuck above 6.5%, but Singapore borrowers are quoted fixed packages from around 1.4% — and neither figure decides how much a bank will lend you.
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.
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.
CEA's Minimum Transaction Rule Starts in 2027. No Agent Loses a Licence Until 2029.
The three-deals-in-three-years bar is real, but the first cut-off falls on 31 December 2029 — which means for the next three years, vetting your agent is still your job.
China's US$148 Billion Lease Expiry Problem — And What Geylang Lorong 3 Already Settled
Beijing is only now writing the rules for expiring land leases. Singapore wrote them decades ago, tested them in 2020, and prices them into every 99-year transaction.
CEA's 3-Deals-in-3-Years Rule Is a Low Bar. The Commission Data Is the Real Change
From January 2027, property agents in Singapore must close three deals in three years or sit a refresher exam — but the quota will purge fewer agents than the headlines suggest, and monthly commission reporting will reshape the industry far more.