Home sales rose to 2,793 in March, rebounding from a 14-month low in February and the highest since the Urban Redevelopment Authority started releasing the information in June 2007, according to...
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A downtown mansion near Singapore's Orchard Road is going on the market for a jaw-dropping S$300 million (HK$1.88 billion), with the owner betting that developers may profit from dividing the site...
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New private home sales in Singapore plunged 65 per cent last month from a month before as market cooling measures and the Lunar New Year holidays kept buyers away, official data showed.
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Singapore and Hong Kong are neck-and-neck competitors on so many levels, including their property markets. Prime real estate in both regional hub cities is considered a safe asset class, and one...
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A higher tax on the owners of Singapore's most expensive homes - the top 1 per cent - resonates here because it is aimed at closing a widening income gap, a problem we share. But it has prompted...
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Singapore's exports unexpectedly fell for the third time in four months last month as shipments of electronics slumped and companies sold fewer goods to US customers.
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When dozens of Chinese bus drivers held Singapore's first strike in 26 years last week, the island deported the perpetrators. Getting rid of the soaring prices that are emboldening calls for...
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'With an economy just half the size of Hong Kong's 10 years ago, Singapore has now surpassed us.'
Leung Chun-ying, chief-executive-elect
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How strange! Markets across Asia plummeted on news of Francois Hollande's election victory in France and of the punishment Greece's mainstream parties suffered at the hands of voters for their...
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Hong Kong and Singapore have achieved stunning economic growth over the past decades; but through different approaches. Hong Kong's growth has been driven by the private sector, while Singapore...
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In the wake of the Asian markets crash of the late 1990s, it became no longer fashionable to talk about the Asian Tigers and their wondrous performance.
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Italians used to brag about 'Il Sorpasso' - the point in 1987 that Italy overtook Britain to become the world's fifth largest economy.
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