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Here is this week’s data-led look at Singapore’s property market, covering record transactions, rental benchmarks and the most searched homes on EdgeProp. The following insights are compiled from EdgeProp Buddy , URA Realis and data.gov.sg, downloaded as of Aug 12. Non-landed private homes — new launches, resales…
The Dubai real estate landscape saw divergent performances across sectors in 2Q2026, as regional geopolitical tensions prompted “a period of adjustment”, according to Chestertons Global. While the residential and office markets saw more measured activity in the second quarter following years of expansion, the…
The rise of online shopping has not emptied Asian malls of retail. Instead, the region’s largest shopping centres are evolving into more densely layered destinations, combining a greater concentration of specialty shops with more restaurants, entertainment and other activities designed to keep visitors around…
Contributions from new operational beds in Singapore, the Harum Megah workers' dormitory portfolio in Malaysia, and the EPIISOD Macquarie Park student housing in Sydney helped push revenue up by 31% y-o-y for Centurion Corp. Revenue stood at about $184.9 million for the first half of this year, up from $140.7…
Real estate agency PropNex’s net attributable profit slipped by 3.1% y-o-y to about $40.9 million for the first half of this year, while revenue inched up 0.7% to $603 million. The slight increase in revenue was driven largely by a 6.9% uptick in commission income from agency services to $360.5 million for the half…
City Developments Ltd (CDL) saw group revenue climbing 61.1% y-o-y to $2.72 billion for the first half of this year, with property development continuing to be the largest contributor though all its business segments recorded higher revenue. Overall, net attributable profit after tax and minority interest (Patmi)…
More than half of HDB flat owners polled in a recent survey hope to own a private home one day, with the lion’s share of them setting their upgrading budget at below $2.5 million. By region, aspiring upgraders generally prefer to own and live in a private condo in the Rest of Central Region (RCR) or city fringe, as…
Frasers Property’s unrecognised revenue from residential developments stood at $1 billion as of June 30, down from $1.4 billion as of Sep 30, 2025. In Singapore, the group has about $400 million in unrecognised revenue across 948 contracts on hand, while Australia accounts for $500 million across 1,415 contracts.…
Singapore’s strata commercial property market delivered a mixed performance in the first half of this year, with the office segment proving more resilient than retail. According to Knight Frank’s research, 136 office transactions were recorded in 1H2026, easing by 16.5% from 2H2025. These deals amounted to $352.1…
For the first half of the year, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) saw gross revenue rising 7.5% y-o-y to $846.8 million while net property income increased by 8.7% to $630.5 million. This was driven by income contributions from CapitaSpring’s commercial component in Singapore and the Gallileo commercial…
Here is this week’s data-led look at Singapore’s property market, covering record transactions, rental benchmarks and the most searched homes on EdgeProp. The following insights are compiled from EdgeProp Buddy , URA Realis and data.gov.sg, downloaded as of Aug 5. Non-landed private homes — new launches, resales…
Co-living operator The Assembly Place (TAP) saw improved profitability for the first half of this year amid revenue growth as it continued to expand its core segment of community-driven stays. It also comes as TAP eyes a “robust” upcoming slate of new projects, with more than 2,100 additional keys in its…
Commercial real estate investments in Asia Pacific (Apac) reached US$105 billion (around $135 billion) in the first six months of the year, marking the strongest first half since 2022, when US$123 billion in deals were recorded, according to Colliers. The figure is also “well clear of the 2023 to 2025 trough”, the…
While Singapore continues to ramp up its public and private housing supply, the government is also working with the private sector to explore a wider range of housing typologies. This comes as there is demand for flexible accommodation options, even though homeownership is still encouraged and remains a key tenant…
Now might be a good time to put money into real estate — but only selectively and with discipline. Repricing has created attractive investment opportunities in various markets and property sectors, although the era of near-zero interest rates is unlikely to return. “The cost of capital is no longer cheap, so when…
The Singapore property market saw a “period of consolidation” in the first half of the year, with lower transaction volumes across the new private home, private residential resale and HDB resale segments, according to Apac Realty, the listed parent company of property agency ERA Singapore. In an Aug 3 release…
Singapore-based investors have become the largest group of non-local buyers of commercial properties in Hong Kong, drawn by the sizeable correction in the prices of distressed assets amid a slump in the city’s office segment, according to Colliers. The demand from Singapore was likely to remain steady in the coming…
Here is this week’s data-led look at Singapore’s property market, covering record transactions, rental benchmarks and the most searched homes on EdgeProp. The following insights are compiled from EdgeProp Buddy , URA Realis and data.gov.sg, downloaded as of July 28. Non-landed private homes — new launches, resales…
Selected real estate markets across Asia Pacific (Apac), including Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul and Sydney, are offering compelling investment opportunities as supply constraints reshape the global economy, according to research by Hines. In its 2026 mid-year outlook published in July, the US-headquartered real estate…
CapitaLand Ascott Trust (CLAS) remains focused on enhancing its portfolio quality through capital recycling and asset enhancements, even as near-term results absorbed the cost of asset upgrades and property closures in the first half of 2026. In a July 28 release on its financial performance for the six months…
The Singapore property auction market saw an uptick in mortgagee sales in 1H2026, according to research by ETC, a member of Realion Group. There were 216 mortgagee sale listings in 1H2026, 30.9% more than the 165 listings recorded in 2H2025, and 28.6% higher y-o-y. “The larger proportion of mortgagee-sale listings…
EdgeProp analysis of data from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) over the past six years shows a pattern worth noting: boutique developments of fewer than 50 units account for close to 60% of assessed private residential projects that fell into Bands 4 to 6, the lower half of the workmanship scale.…
URA's 2Q2026 data showed that retail rents in the Central Region rose by 0.6% q-o-q, reversing the 0.6% q-o-q decline the previous quarter. Prices of retail space in the Central Region also rose, up 0.8% q-o-q in 2Q2026, moderating from the 2.2% q-o-q increase in the previous quarter, according to URA data. URA…
HDB resale prices have now slipped for two straight quarters, with the Resale Price Index down 0.3% to 202.8 in 2Q2026, after a 0.1% decline in 1Q2026 -- a sign that the multi-year resale boom may finally be losing steam. Christine Sun, chief researcher & strategist of Realion (OrangeTee & ETC) Group, attributes…
Rents and prices of office space in Singapore both rose on a q-o-q basis in the second quarter of this year, according to URA’s latest quarterly real estate statistics released on July 24. That said, vacancy rates inched up by 0.2 percentage point, reversing the drop of 0.3 percentage point in the first quarter.…
Private home prices in Singapore edged up 0.5% q-o-q in 2Q2026, slowing down from the 0.9% growth registered in the previous quarter, data released by URA on July 24 showed. For the first half of the year, prices of private residential properties in 1H2026 were up by a marginal 1.4%, dipping below the 1.8% gain…
Here is this week’s data-led look at Singapore’s property market, covering record transactions, rental benchmarks and the most searched homes on EdgeProp. The following insights are compiled from EdgeProp Buddy , URA Realis and data.gov.sg, downloaded as of July 21. Non-landed private homes — new launches, resales…
Overall industrial rents rose 0.5% q-o-q in 2Q2026, extending the 0.4% increase recorded in 1Q2026, according to JTC statistics released on July 23. The index hit its highest level since 2Q1996, capping 23 consecutive quarters of growth since the trough during the pandemic in 3Q2020. Since then, rents have climbed…
Singapore’s next phase of urban growth is already taking shape. Punggol Digital District in the northeast is now largely operational, Jurong Lake District in the west is being progressively developed as a major commercial and mixed-use node, and the Paya Lebar Air Base site in the east will be freed up from the…
Living sectors — formerly a niche, alternative asset class — are moving into the mainstream as institutional capital is flowing into growth areas such as co-living, build-to-rent, student accommodation and senior housing across Asia Pacific. The region’s living sectors are becoming a more diversified investment…