Top Stories

• Strong national identity 'key for Singapore to get to SG100'
• Budget 2016 targets help at companies, families who need it most
• Nine-day Budget debate starts on Monday

Singapore Real Estate

• Slower decline in home prices in Q1
• Two-speed market develops for private-home prices
• Going flat out to turn smart-home vision into reality
• Dorm operators get more creative
• Landlord-Anchor tenant relationship in the spotlight
• New developments underway at Seletar Aviation Park
• Property portals flourish despite subdued market

Companies' Brief

• CEO of Reit manager believes in venturing beyond comfort zone
• Eights ways for SMEs to tap Budget 2016
• Lower consent threshold for collective sales
• Setting the tone from the top (Pg 30)

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• US indices look set to test record highs - Fed permitting
• More US households renting homes, across all income levels
• China lands itself a property headache
• Anbang checks out of proposed Starwood buy

• Businesses should rely on their own wits, less on government
• Pressing need for all to help workers: Chan Chun Sing
• Singaporean core does not mean S’poreans only, says Chun Sing
• Singapore Economy
• Benefits of fiscal boost will take time to filter through, say economists
• MPs flag challenges of more targeted approach
• There's still room for one chamber to rule them all, says industry

Singapore Real Estate 

• Tan Tock Seng descendants put Cuscaden Rd site up for sale
• Singapore property losing some shine: UBS
• Companies' Brief
• SPH Reit maintains Q2 DPU on steady performance

Views, Reviews & Forum

• A productive approach to transforming industries

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• 'Tactical value' seen in Australia and Japan real estate: UBS
• UK building trade in March at its weakest in nearly a year
• HNA Agrees to Buy Controlling Stake in Tysan for $340 Million
• Former Kimco CEO and Orangewood Start Real Estate Finance Firm
• Confidence Reaches 2016 High as Canadians Keep Faith in Housing
• London to Get Megalandlord With 4,000 Homes
• Saudi Arabia Enters Homebuilding Business to Tackle Shortage
• Frasers Property Australia sells office building to BlackRock for A$45.5m

• De Souza calls for ABSD to be removed for S'poreans

Singapore Real Estate

• Asia Square could sharpen CCT's edge
• EC with 'smart homes' to be ready in 2019
• Difficult retail conditions show in Q1 rental dip: DTZ
• SRX Property expands into valuation service
• Frasers Property Australia sells office building to BlackRock for A$45.5m
• LinkedIn to open US$80m data centre in Singapore
• Alpha fund buys rest of 78 Shenton Way
• Frasers Centrepoint

Companies' Brief

• Singapore Real Estate Investment Trusts
• SingHaiyi's controlling shareholder strikes share deal with OKH Global
• Tee Land
• Views, Reviews & Forum
• Day 2 of Budget debate turns focus to people
• Budget 2016: Is focus too long term?
• Bidadari the next Bishan?

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Lower GDP growth in US reflecting weaker productivity
• Aussie education sector draws investors, boosts economy

• Swee Keat: Embrace spirit of enterprise

Singapore Real Estate

• AccorHotels, K Line, Bunge among new tenants at Guoco Tower
• SISV rejects computer-generated valuations
• Tough retail scene exacts toll on shops and landlords
• Tangs goes for exclusivity as it refashions business
• 77th Street founder turns to logistics amid retail shake-up
• New Look, Celio to exit Singapore market
• Property 2016 (Pg41-62)

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• High-end condo in KL centre looks to launch M'sia's 1st en masse sale
• AccorHotels buys luxury home rentals company
• UK residential market still sound despite potential 'Brexit'

• Global economic uncertainty to last for next 3-5 years: Hng Kiang

Singapore Economy

• Sectoral, company-level help to tackle economic challenges: Iswaran
• Budget 2016: Businesses must take next step

Singapore Real Estate

• SRX's HDB resale price index continues flattish performance
• OUE dangles 15% discount for Twin Peaks condo
• CBD office rents fall for third straight quarter
• Digestible plot size helps draw bids for Sembawang Park site tender
• GIC buys 25% of French property firm

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Property needs both valuation models
• Mortgage planning: Investment vs own-use property

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Croesus Retail acquiring mall in Hiroshima
• Bulk buyers of apartments in London getting 20% discounts
• Manhattan renters get a break after two years of surging costs
• Inside the Stunning, Luxury Homes of Architect Annabelle Selldorf
• UK home prices surge but Halifax flags Brexit uncertainty

• Short-term rental: It's in the phrasing of contracts
• MAS eases rules on ETF transactions
• MAS not likely to slow appreciation of Singdollar: Economists
• WWII tale unravels at Adam Park bungalow

Singapore Economy

• Govt committed to helping SMEs, says Heng Swee Keat
• Retain values that have served us well: Heng Swee Keat
• Strong start in Q1 for Singdollar bonds

Singapore Real Estate

• Property agents who broker short-term stays playing with fire
• Some condos being run as serviced apartments
• OUE offers deferred payment for Twin Peaks
• Interest from local, overseas players in Cuscaden property
• 2014 accord is subject of Ngee Ann Devt-Takashimaya dispute

Companies' Brief

• Sherman Kwek named Deputy CEO of CDL

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Relook housing type as means-testing criterion
• Tackling Singapore building security in early stages of design, construction
• Do property curbs help or hurt?
• Giving heartland shops a bit more buzz

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Shenzhen, Shanghai home sales plunge after rules tightened
• Toronto condos: one in 10 owned by foreigners
• Prices of homes in London's outskirts surge ahead of fast rail network
• Multigenerational homes that fit just right
• Pain in India's real estate market spells opportunity for Godrej
• Dubai to build tower taller than Burj Khalifa
• Poland banks might spread out mortgage conversion costs
• Plan for wooden 'toothpick' skyscraper in London

• Tengah to be developed into a 'Forest Town'
• Too early to unwind cooling measures: Lawrence Wong

Singapore Economy

• Keep looking up - the economy depends on it
• Annual value of home ‘best available proxy’ in means-testing

Singapore Real Estate

• CIT sells Tuas property for S$16.5m, mulls more divestments
• Woh Hup bags job for Aspial's JV Citygate project
• More details unveiled on home scheme for rental flat families
• Heartland retailers to get more financial support for upgrading: MND
• 3: Helping second-timers who are rental tenants to buy flat
• Developers will need to incorporate needs of pedestrians, cyclists: MND
• Details revealed for Fresh Start Housing Scheme to help rental flat dwellers

Companies' Brief

• Kwek Leng Beng's son named CDL deputy CEO

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Hawkers affected by upgrading could be given rental remission: MEWR

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• 'Singapore estates' in China face cloudy future
• Hwa Hong unit invests in London market
• Turmoil in the Indian property market spells golden opportunity for developer Godrej
• Panama Papers another body blow for weak prime London property market
• London's luxury-home pipeline would cover Hyde Park twice
• China buyers double Aussie property investments again
• Luxury-Rental Plan Abandoned at Manhattan's One57 Condo Tower
• Pavarotti’s $20.5 Million Apartment With 40-Foot Terrace on Central Park

• Global economy risks slowing to stalling speed: IMF
• More receive grants for HDB flats

Singapore Economy

• Singapore needs to stay ahead while pursuing Smart Nation vision: Vivian Balakrishnan

Singapore Real Estate

• Prices of private resale flats up 0.3% in March
• Sharp rise in resale private home sales
• Tengah's attraction 'lies in rejuvenation plans, low prices'
• Houzz makes play for S’pore’s S$10b home-design market

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Luxury-rental plan abandoned at Manhattan's One57 condo tower
• Luxe London home mortgages highest in 10 years
• Goldman mortgage settlement is much less than meets the eye
• Design Features That Sell Your Home Faster, for More Money
• IMF cuts global growth forecast again
• Global economy risks slowing to stalling speed: IMF
• Luxury-rental plan abandoned at Manhattan's One57 condo tower

Top Stories

• M&A increasingly favoured as internationalisation strategy
• Singapore Economy
• Monetary Authority of Singapore sets zero appreciation path for Singdollar with switch to neutral policy stance
• MAS eases monetary police in surprise move, adopts neutral, 0% exchange rate stance
• Singapore economy grows 1.8% in Q1, just beating expectations: Flash estimates
• Review choice of home used in means-testing

Singapore Real Estate

• Rental transactions jump in March: SRX
• The Ascott launches prized selection of properties
• FCL launches new executive condo in Sembawang

Companies' Brief

• Keppel DC Reit posts 3.7% rise in Q1 DPU

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Property curbs help the average Singaporean

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• IMF urges govts of advanced economies to use fiscal policies to support demand
• Malaysia's EPF plans to double property assets
• CRCT's net property income rises 6.2% in Q1
• Frasers Property Australia
• Mori to spend 400b yen building 3 Tokyo towers

Top Stories

• MAS stuns market by flattening Singapore dollar policy band
• Weak Q1 data prompts full-year downgrades by economists
• Despite MAS move, Singdollar remains Fed-driven: analysts
• Halt in Singdollar's rise seen only during recession
• MAS easing: core takeaways
• New scheme to encourage corporate giving
• Type of home no longer an accurate measure of wealth

Singapore Real Estate

• Cheung Kong Property eyeing GLS sites
• Public invited to submit ideas for redeveloped Funan DigitaLife Mall
• HK developer sees opportunity in S’pore property, despite cooling measures

Companies' Brief

• AA Reit awards redevelopment of Tuas property to Boustead
• Perennial turns to court amid rift with Pontiac over Capitol Singapore
• Guocoland attractive candidate for privatisation
• Enlarged unit base sees Keppel Reit trimming Q1 DPU by 1.2 per cent
• Soilbuild Reit's Q1 DPU down 4.7%

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Office space: Where do we go from here?

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Evergrande may have become too big to fail
• Entire Australian village is listed for sale
• NY commercial property market goes cold
• The global economy is in a fragile state
• Got $13.7m to spare? This Aussie village could be yours 

• Singapore developers stay sanguine about top China cities
• Sing$ easing unlikely to boost exports
• Sing$ surprise not a bad idea
• Shoppers rein in spending on US goods as Singdollar weakens

Singapore Real Estate

• New private home sales hit 8-month high
• Will 'new' Funan still have the IT factor?
• $17.5m offer to buy decades-old Beauty World Food Centre

Companies' Brief

• Ascott Reit posts 1.1% rise in Q1 distributable income; DPU dips
• CapitaLand Mall Trust's DPU up 1.9% for Q1

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Investors spooked by 'overvalued' properties

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• $23m price tag for new Chicago penthouse
• IMF: China may have $1.8 trillion of risky loans
• Tax benefits of US homeownership no longer a draw for buyers
• Tech threatens US property agents' commissions
• Activist calls for more development in San Francisco

• Two new Sembawang ECs pull in the crowds

Companies' Brief

• Keppel's Q1 profit falls 42%
• New acquisitions drive First Reit's Q1 growth, DPU up 2.4%

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Data centres, logistics bright spots for 2016 industrial demand

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• GIC, S Korean partner to build Incheon mall
• UK house prices hit record
• Easing measures boost China home prices further
• Buy a Condo, Get a Private Jet: Luxe Amenities Reach New Heights

Top Stories

• Singdollar likely to lag behind in region: Analysts
• Singapore dollar shakes off last week's losses against the greenback

Singapore Real Estate

• Punggol’s new mall opens, but old woes remain

Companies' Brief

• Keppel shares up; analysts warn of long drought
• CapitaLand Q1 net profit up 35.4% to S$218m

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Widening gap between home prices
• Singapore property may be heading for long-term drop in value

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Poor housing data adds to signs of weak Q1 GDP growth
• Australia's No 3 estate agent gives earnings downgrade
• Dubai property prices down 10% in Q1: JLL
• London first-quarter home presales drop 33%
• Best housing sentiment since 2014 lifts Canadian confidence
• China's property market recovering from deep slump
• No Wi-Fi, unknown location - but tiny house vacation is a hit
• What causes housing in the US to be too expensive?
• Hong Kong malls search for new identity after golden decade ends 

Top Stories

• Architects also hurting from real estate woes
• Singdollar rallies, interest rates fall on US$ weakness

Singapore Real Estate

• Shops and shophouses overtake residential units in auctions
• CapitaLand pays S$2.7 million extension charge for The Interlace

Companies' Brief

• CapitaLand's net profit for Q1 rises 35.4% to $218.3m
• Manulife's Reit IPO in Singapore back on track

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Makeshift patching will not fix defects of S'pore's housing market
• Fewer homes put up for auction in Q1, interest switching to shophouses: Knight Frank

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Gulf's biggest buyer of US property to double investments
• Dubai developer Nakheel posts 8% rise in first-quarter profit
• Hotel called a blight on Brooklyn to be auctioned off
• Office rents in London skyscrapers up 10% in H2 2015
• Distressed property sales in Europe at 3-year low
• Manila rushing to auction 8 infrastructure projects
• HK malls facing new challenges in retail slump
• This 300-Foot-High Skybridge Comes With Its Own Pool
• Sales of previously owned homes rebound in March 

• Lifting curbs 'not key to property sector's outlook': Lawrence Wong
• Q1 deals may signal market for Good Class Bungalows looking up

Singapore Real Estate

• CDL heading to Indonesia to promote Gramercy Park
• Adelson thinking about selling MBS retail assets next year
• Developers get creative with sales pitches
• MBS' results hit by poor luck and strong greenback

Companies' Brief

• Suntec Reit's Q1 DPU up with help from Park Mall sale
• Properties boost Q2 earnings for Frasers Commercial Trust
• Guocoland

Views, Reviews & Forum

• S’pore still top choice for Asia-Pacific regional HQs

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Crystal City, once cast off by Washington, reinvents itself
• American Copper Buildings almost done
• Tokyo interior design and real estate companies cater to cat lovers
• How Hadid's firm plans to move on
• Property taxes for foreign buyers to more than double in Victoria, Australia
• Hamptons Home Sales Hit Three-Year Low on Wall Street Turbulence

Top Stories

• Private home prices in muted fall: URA index
• Suburban condo rents fall closer to HDB price levels
• HDB, suburban condo rental gap shrinks

Singapore Real Estate

• Retail rents fall further as vacancies creep up
• Office rental decline accelerates
• Shopping mall vacancies in town highest in 5 years
• HDB resale prices in Q1 stay flat
• Can't be 'business as usual', say retail industry stakeholders
• Japanese brands doing well despite local retail slump

Companies' Brief

• 40% of Sturdee Residences' units sold in VIP preview
• On the move: China Yuanbang Property Holdings
• Frasers Centrepoint Trust's Q2 DPU up 2.6%
• UIC's quarterly earnings slip 2% to $59.7 million

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Look at resale condos as value is emerging
• GST voucher not for citizens with more than one property
• Three phases of retirement for the affluent

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Victoria to more than double property tax for foreign buyers
• Developers Are Turning Rust Belt Hulks Into Luxury Hotels
• Elite homeowners in Paris seek end to pain with Socialist loss 

Singapore Economy

• Fall in housing, transport costs pulls CPI down again
• Singapore tourism industry to get S$700 million boost over next five years

Singapore Real Estate

• 100 AM mall in Tanjong Pagar to be new home for Parco
• 25% of Qingjian's EC units sold at weekend launch
• More launches in the offing as residential market picks up
• Singapore property investment sales tumble 74% to $1.75b in Q1 from previous quarter: DTZ
• HDB flats more affordable despite shorter loan tenures
• More HDB flats approved for subletting as resale prices fall

Companies' Brief

• Mapletree Industrial Trust's DPU rises 6% for Q4

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Heeton, KSH, Lian Beng venture buys 5th property in Britain
• Germans flock to property as interest rates fall and rents rise
• China's 2 largest developers make move to re-list on mainland bourse
• A One-of-a-Kind Modernist Estate in Brazil for $11.5 Million
• Sales of new homes down for a third month in March
• Developers unfazed by Kuala Lumpur's office space glut 

Top Stories

• S'pore in 'sweet spot' as politics and policies work constructively together: PM Lee

Singapore Economy

• The top error firms make in a downturn

Singapore Real Estate

• Almost 1 in 3 high-end Singapore condos sold at a loss in Q1
• New rule allowing better use of excess carpark space

Companies' Brief

• Higher DPU in Q4 for Mapletree Commercial Trust
• PLife Reit Q1 DPU falls in absence of one-off distribution
• Soilbuild Construction Group
• Housing Development Board

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Orchard malls not biting on grants for underground links

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Prince's old villa in Spain unsold after 2 years
• Australian property obsession becomes election battleground
• Reason to be sceptical about China's rebound in residential investment
• 30 Chelsea Barracks homes in London sold at £4,500 psf
• Prince's Old Villa in Spain Remains Unsold
• A One-of-a-Kind Modernist Estate in Brazil for $11.5 Million
• UK hospitality trade boosts Rowsley's Q1 earnings 

• The tripartite way to beat economic blues
• Singapore Economy
• Labour pains flagged in central bank's macroeconomic review
• Singapore's slow economic growth environment expected to continue: MAS
• Singapore sees broader weakening in economic activity
• $700 million investment in tourism: A shot in the arm for industry

Singapore Real Estate

• Blackstone to buy into three Sime Darby properties worth S$300m
• Courts' Causeway Point outlet gets versatile layout
• KepLand releasing new block at Highline condo
• 4 blocks in Ang Mo Kio to be torn down
• Cautious consumers, falling retail sales, high cost and strong dollar leading to empty malls
• Singapore fashion label Raoul closes boutiques to focus on wholesale business
• Style news: Audemars Piguet reopens at Liat Towers
• No Tenants … And No Shoppers

Companies' Brief

• Far East H-Trust warns of challenging operating environment
• First Sponsor's Q1 profit rises 14%
• AA Reit posts higher Q4 DPU; warns of pressure on rents

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Higher rents, new properties lift Ascendas India in Q4
• Bank of England won't hesitate to act on housing risks: deputy chief
• Lone Star raises US$5.9b for real estate pte equity fund
• Opening of new mall to add to South Africa's retail space glut
• Brazil recession likely to fuel higher mortgage defaults: Moody's
• America is finally putting the home foreclosure crisis behind it
• Heilongjiang cuts land sales, offers buyers subsidies
• Australian lenders clamping down on foreign buying of homes
• Aussie banks rein in home loans to foreigners
• Luxury Renters in New York Finally Have Leverage to Negotiate
• $25 Million St. Barth's Estate Comes With a Mountainside Tennis Court
• China's corporate debt problem needs urgent attention: IMF
• Rent boosts MGCCT's Q4 earnings
• The Business Times, E-paper, Page 6
• Britain's high-street retailers face shopping slump

Singapore Economy

• Layoffs ease in Q1 from Q4; Over half from services sector
• NTUC to step up help to wider group of workers
• More job losses expected despite improved unemployment rate: MOM
• Integrated North-South Corridor to be ready in 2026
• Faster bus rides to city from the north with North-South Corridor

Singapore Real Estate

• Private-home resale prices dip 1%
• Opportunity for industrialists in slowdown, uncertainty: JTC
• Prices, rentals of Singapore industrial space extend decline in Q1 as vacancy rate hits 9.9%
• URA, estate agency body probing potential breach of minimum-stay rule
• Keen interest seen for Martin Place site
• URA launches tender for condo site at Martin Place
• Genting Singapore dissolves Macau unit
• CIT in tie-up to explore Australian opportunities
• The next big thing in real estate investment

Companies' Brief

• Ho Bee's Q1 profit up 59.8% at S$18.46m
• AIMS AMP Capital Industrial Reit's Q4 DPU is 2.95 cents
• Viva Industrial Trust

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Foreign workers being lured here for non-existent jobs a concern, say NGOs

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• Ascott buys into London property via joint fund with Qatar
• RM200b bonanza for M'sian builders draws top fund
• London luxury hotels in worst year since 2009 on terrorism risk, Brexit 

• Govt to provide support as industries transform
• Right skills for right jobs 'key in future economy': PM Lee's May Day message
• Singapore well-equipped to handle slowdown

Singapore Economy 

• Up to S$200m boost for NTUC education fund
• Services sector pessimistic about next 6 months
• Labour Movement to develop strategy of ‘employment insurance’: Chan Chun Sing
• S'pore bank lending falls for 6th straight month in March

Singapore Real Estate

• Shophouses draw keen investor interest
• Malls sweeten lease deals amid tricky retail scene
• Frasers to open 10 properties in China
• FEH keen to expand brand to Australia, NZ
• The Straits Times Classified, PROPERTY

Companies' Brief

• Mapletree Commercial Trust
• Mapletree Logistics Trust's Q4 DPU falls 2.7%
• Frasers Hospitality Trust's Q2 DPS falls 3.6% to 1.33 cents
• CDL Hospitality Trusts reports 9% drop in Q1 DPS
• Comparing Reit fees: two cases of anomalies
• Richard Magnus to succeed Danny Teoh as chairman of CMTML

Views, Reviews & Forum

• Condo sales terms favour developer

Global Economy & Global Real Estate

• IMF warns of severe headwinds from weak global recovery
• In Rome, cheap public housing hid for years in plain sight
• Saint Petersburg celebrates its unique communal flats
• Housing recovery sees great divide around Atlanta
• HK March home prices fall for sixth straight month
• Casino sells Vietnam unit to Central Group for 1b euros
• Berlin curbs Airbnb rentals to cool market
• Sony Building to stay as office block after all
• Cloud hangs over US housing rebound
• China's HNA to buy owner of Radisson hotel chain
• Meet the Jerry Maguire of Real Estate
• HK luxury retailers look to Macau for expansion
• Australia to block sale of farmland to Chinese
• Centurion to buy four UK student dorms