Developers

SINGAPORE (Apr 10): RHB is maintaining its “overweight” call on Singapore’s real estate sector while expecting developers to be more selective in their en bloc bids going forward, with preferences for relatively smaller and well-located sites.  

SINGAPORE (Mar 12): Asia’s big developers are “more vulnerable” to shocks after their profitability waned from the boom years at the start of the decade, the Bank for International Settlements warned.

SINGAPORE (Dec 6): Singapore developers may extend their share rally into 2018 on a reviving home market, according to money managers and analysts, who say the central bank’s warning on a potential oversupply may not play out for years.

SINGAPORE (Dec 1): The Monetary Authority of Singapore has warned bankers, developers and potential property buyers to tread carefully amid a rapidly growing supply of new residential properties, soft rents, rising interest rates and slower population gro

SINGAPORE (Oct 20): Deutsche Bank is positive on Singapore’s property market as it expects pricing power to return to developers.

SINGAPORE (Oct 16): Singapore home sales fell in September as developers marketed fewer projects in a month considered inauspicious by Chinese homebuyers.

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Aug 14): Hong Kong’s property stocks are cheaper than Singapore’s, although not cheap enough to account for the risk that the world’s least affordable city could have a housing crash.

(June 7): What a difference 20 years makes. Back when Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the British colony’s economy was dominated by homegrown tycoons such as Li Ka-shing and colonial-era conglomerates such as Jardine Matheson Holdin

SINGAPORE (March 16): Developers’ hunger for Singapore land is adding to signs that the city’s housing market is making a comeback after three years of price declines.

SINGAPORE (April 4): Taking your chances on Singapore’s Straits Times Index (STI) could be a wiser investment decision than putting your capital in the local property market, says Tata Goeyardi of Religare Capital Markets.