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Lock+Store warehouses offering service to pack and post packages
Its Lock+Store warehouse in Serangoon North allows them to store their goods and also offers a counter service so they can pack and post them to buyers - saving them a trip to the post office. SingPost group chief. Although there is no breakdown on.
Better balance between sellers and buyers in residential market: Minister Khaw.
SINGAPORE - The residential market in Singapore has achieved a better balance between buyers and sellers, Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan said in a blog post on Friday. He said that 2014 was the first full year which saw home prices in .
Govt to continue easing up on housing supply next year
By Janice Heng, The Straits Times, 21 Oct 2014. BOTH public housing supply and land sales for private property will continue to slow next year, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. However, married couples and their parents.. Preserving a balance between holding fair value for existing owners and keeping prices reasonable enough for intending buyers and upgraders is part logic, part intuition. Singapore has seen extremes, sometimes��.
Fewer BTO flats next year, more priority for families who want to live near.
The Government will continue to reduce the number of new Build-to-Order (BTO) flats, launching 25 per cent fewer next year, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan in a blog post on Monday evening. Families will also get more help to live.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: HDB moves to.
National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan, who announced this change in Parliament on Monday, said this will restore the original intention of valuation, which is to help buyers obtain a housing loan... Yet that is what COV has always been: the difference between price and valuation.. Though the HDB cracked down accordingly, 1996 still saw reports of buyers paying ���a premium of $100,000 to $150,000. above valuation���, as in one Straits Times article.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: New HDB flats more.
By Janice Heng, The Straits Times, 17 Nov 2014. NEW Housing. But while the gap is closing, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wans target of having new flats priced at about four times the applicants median income has not been reached.. In the HDB market, resale demand has suffered owing to factors such as the large number of new Build-To-Order flats, giving first- and second-time buyers a more affordable option, said PropNex CEO Mohd Ismail.
HDB should be given power to enter flat for repair works: Khaw
SINGAPORE - The Housing Board should be given the power to enter a flat in order for repair works to be carried out more promptly, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Monday. He wrote in a blog post: We need to do more to help our .
New one-stop resource centre for social enterprises to be launched
With a consolidated approach, it would also be easier to engage companies to support social enterprises, said Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing on Wednesday. He was speaking at the ministrys appreciation and networking .
Part of Orchard Road to close on Jan 3 for Pedestrian Night
SINGAPORE - The stretch between Scotts Road and Bideford Road will be closed from 6pm to 11pm on Saturday for the fourth Pedestrian Night on Orchard Road. The carriageway of Mount Elizabeth in the direction of Orchard Road (between Nutmeg Road .
Resale HDB flat market finally turned the corner: Khaw.
However, HDBs fourth quarter resale housing data does suggests that ���we have finally turned the corner��� with the balance between sellers and buyers is becoming more neutral, said Mr Khaw in a blog-post on Saturday. ���Over the next three years, 80,000 new. flat hunters and sellers will too.��� The ministers comments comes a day after HDB released data that showed resale flat prices falling for the first time since 2005 ��� sliding 0.6 per cent last year after a 6.6 per cent jump in 2012.
Calming, not collapsing housing market - If Only.
By Daryl Chin, The Straits Times, 14 Mar 2013. PUBLIC housing. After 50 years, the time is ripe to revisit old assumptions and examine existing policies, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said in Parliament last week. Some old. Although Mr Khaw made clear these suggestions were for discussion only, and invited Singaporeans to the conversation table to rethink public housing, buyers, sellers and industry players alike are already wary. Property��.
HDB deficit more than doubles with more homes under construction
The take-up rate of the Special CPF Housing Grant has also spiked since it was enhanced to make more households eligible in July 2013, said the HDB in a separate statement. This grant is given to eligible first-timer citizen families who are applying.
Small section of Westgate ceiling falls after heavy rain
It was raining heavily and the ceiling started leaking, more severely than usual. Suddenly there was a loud crash, and it turned out, a piece of plaster had fallen, the 26-year-old said. Rainwater that overflowed onto the ceiling area caused part of.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: New property.
By Lee Su Shyan, The Straits Times, 12 Jan 2013. NEW property. Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told a briefing last night: The reality we face is that interest rates are extraordinarily low, globally and in Singapore, and continue to add fuel to our property market. We have to. The duty will also now apply to more people, such as permanent residents (PRs) buying their first home and Singaporeans investing in their second residential property.
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. and buyers in residential market: Minister Khaw Boon Wan. SINGAPORE - The residential market in Singapore has achieved a better balance between buyers and sellers, Minister for National Development Khaw Boon.
| Property | Resale HDB flat market finally turned the corner.
The softening resale HDB flat prices is good news for home buyers but it has not yet reached a steady state said National Development Minister Khaw Boon.. has not yet reached a ���steady state��� said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan. However, HDBs fourth quarter resale housing data does suggests that ���we have finally turned the corner��� with the balance between sellers and buyers is becoming more neutral, said Mr Khaw in a blog-post on Saturday.
PAP cadres elect party leaders
The other CEC members are, in no particular order of the votes they got: Party secretary-general Lee Hsien Loong, Party chairman Khaw Boon Wan, vice chairman Yaacob Ibrahim, first and second assistant secretary-generals Teo Chee Hean and Tharman.
Straits Times: Dont rush to buy into hot spots | Nusajaya.
The very nature of investing in real estate offshore is in itself a chancy endeavour, as National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan highlighted last Monday. He warned in Parliament that Singaporeans, when buying��.
Bishan HDB maisonette sold for $1.09m in October, setting new record
SINGAPORE - The property market may be on the downtrend, but that did not stop a Housing Board maisonette in Bishan from fetching an auspicious $1,088,888 on the resale market in October and setting a new record. The 150 sq m unit is located between .
Will the Sea Change in HDB Policy Drag Property Prices.
By Mr. Propwise Over the weekend Housing Minister Khaw Boon Wan gave an interview to the Straits Times, where he spoke about what I believe to be a radical shift in policy for the pricing of new Housing Development Board [���]. on whether you were a potential buyer or a home owner) cycle where rising private property and resale HDB prices would push up the pricing of new HDB flats, which would then serve to further bolster pricing in the secondary market.
HDB will be the price-setter: Khaw - If Only Singaporeans.
He dismissed worries that delinking new flat prices from the resale market would mean indefinitely increasing the subsidy that taxpayers give to HDB buyers, as the property market moves in cycles and what goes up must come down. HDB pays.. When Mr Khaw moved over from the Health Ministry to his new post in 2011, he raised both income ceilings that very year from $8,000 and $10,000 so that more young couples could qualify for new flats. The $8,000 limit��.
Property News 3rd June ��� 9th June - The Property Atelier
The Housing Board (HDB) is on track to deliver its 13,600 units planned for completion this year and can deliver its ramped up supply of public flats in a timely manner, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Monday afternoon... manpower issue, they will be mindful of the number of rooms to put on the market.��� The Straits Times- 4 Jun 2013. Robust property sales over weekend Influx of newly launched homes and commercial units draws buyers
Motorists get pulled over - for doing good
The police said I displayed courtesy, he said. While Mr Lim said being recognised was a good form of encouragement, he admitted that he had become more conscientious after being fined $150 a decade ago for a road offence. He said: I was driving too .
The Straits Times News In A Minute: Jan 16, 2015
In todays News In A Minute, we look at how freedom of speech should be cherished. However, it cannot be used as a cloak to make insensitive and inappropriate remarks about any religion, Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said .
Real estate agents jumping ship amid tepid property market
Faced with a sluggish housing market, property agent Nicholas Chia has set up a car-polishing business and a franchise of a pre-school enrichment centre. He is not the only agent to have sought alternative income streams as the property market goes.
Interview with National Development Minister Khaw - If Only.
The reason is a calmer, more stable housing market in which queues for first-time buyers of HDB flats have shortened significantly.. He admits that the gap between income growth and home prices has widened. Resale HDB flat.. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan made this point in a recent interview with The Straits Times, pointing out that from 2005 to 2006 following the 2003 Sars crisis and recession, Singapore was experiencing difficult times.
Single-digit fall in HDB resale prices in 2015 will be a good development: Khaw
SINGAPORE - National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan hopes that 2014s slow slide in Housing Board resale prices will continue into 2015. If what we observe this year continues into next year, I would consider that a very good development, he told .
Supply of new HDB flats to be reduced from next year
By Janice Heng, The Straits Times, 3 Dec 2013. THE supply. A three-year period of ramped-up supply, which has seen more than 77,000 BTO flats launched, has begun to restore the balance in our housing market, Mr Khaw wrote on the ministrys blog. He noted.. Mr Khaw noted that three years of BTO launches have begun to restore a balance in the supply and demand of public housing by clearing the backlog of first-time buyers, mainly young families. Analysts��.
Homes, homes everywhere, but what can you afford?
The Straits Times, 9 Jun 2012. TWENTY-TWO months pay, or $121,500 to be precise. For IT executive Jeffrey Chua, 31, and his partner, that is the price difference between buying a new five-room flat from the Housing Board (HDB) in. Many young home buyers have found themselves priced out of the resale HDB market, where prices are determined by market forces and buyers have to cough up a cash premium set by sellers above a flats valuation, known as cash��.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: HDB resale price.
By Janice Heng, The Straits Times, 10 Dec 2014. THE way the. Details were released yesterday after National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced last week that a review of the index had been completed.. When these are stripped out, pure price changes remain, which reflect the market more accurately, said Associate Professor Lum Sau Kim from the National University of Singapores department of real estate, who was a consultant in the review.
Ukrainian dance troupe lights up Parkway Parade
Light Balance, semi-finalists from this years edition of Britains Got Talent, are a group of Ukrainian dancers and computer programmers. By co-ordinating slick dance moves with colourful lights on black-clad dancers on a pitch-black stage, the troupe.
Singapore navy ship finds main wreckage of crashed AirAsia plane
SINGAPORE - A Republic of Singapore Navy ship has found the main wreckage of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago. Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that the Remotely Operated Vehicle of .
