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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.
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.
Orchard Boulevard and Marina Gardens Lane: The State Just Set the Price Every En Bloc Seller Has to Beat
URA has put two prime 99-year plots on the market with tenders closing in October — and their bids, not the new en bloc consent thresholds, will decide which ageing estates actually sell.
Condo to HDB, No Waiting: The Squeeze Now Lands on 5-Room and Executive Flats
The removal of the 15-month wait-out period does not release demand evenly — it channels well-capitalised private sellers into the one slice of HDB stock that the incoming MOP wave replenishes least.