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Still no confirmed buyer for $300m bungalow

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Romesh Navaratnarajah: The tender for the S$ 300 million bungalow (pictured) at 33 Nassim Road closed yesterday with no confirmation on a buyer, reported The Straits Times. Karamjit Singh, Head of Investments and Residential at Jones Lang LaSalle, said that bids were received but declined to give details. According to market watchers, a [...]

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NSF’s death: Mum still trying to come to terms with loss

April 29, 2013 12:55 AM A YEAR after her eldest son Dominique Sarron Lee Rui Feng died after collapsing during a military exercise, Madam Felicia Seah still cries herself to sleep every night.      Full News here – RSS Print – Singapore

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Behind The Times, But Still Correct

Sir Stirling Moss is a former racing driver from England often called “the greatest driver never to win the World Championship”. There’s good reason for that. Moss raced from 1948 to 1962, winning 212 out of 529 races. 16 of those wins came in the Formula One Grand Prix, the pinnacle of motor sports. He [...]

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Property investment market still upbeat despite 33% drop

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Shabnam Muzammil: Investment sales for property in Singapore fell to S$ 5.4 billion in Q1 2013, down 33 percent from the previous quarter due to a decline in private and public sector real estate activity. However, the figure was still 15.6 percent higher than investment deals recorded in Q1 2012, according to a [...]

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It’s Still A Debt

Someone tried to explain why Singapore has a public debt equivalent to 105 percent of its GDP, the 14th highest in the world.(2012 estimates: 111.40 percent, 13th highest, CIA World Factbook) The illustration used was, two guys borrowing $ 1 million each. One has zero bank balance, the second has another $ 1 million to [...]

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Buyers still cautious despite drop in small cars COE

SINGAPORE: COE premiums for small cars may have fallen but potential car buyers aren’t biting just yet.Several visitors to a car showroom on Friday told Channel NewsAsia that they were there just to take a look.Lim Tze Yong, president of Automobile I… Full News here – xinmsn – Singapore News

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STI rebounds but volume still lower

March 22, 2013 1:02 AM INVESTORS continued to keep their eyes peeled on Cyprus yesterday while cautiously testing the speculative waters in penny stocks – again.  Full News here – RSS Print – Broker’s Take + Singapore Markets + Others

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Filipino Arnel Pineda still can’t believe he’s Journey’s frontman

Five years on, Filipino singer Arnel Pineda still finds it unbelievable that he was plucked from YouTube to become the lead singer of legendary rock band Journey. Full News here – Stomp – Singapore Seen

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Still More Expensive

On Wednesday, COE prices showed a mark decrease in price for Cat B COE. This means that for big vehicles are now cheaper for small vehicles. Does this means it’s time to go and buy a big car for the family? No! And it’s a BIG FAT NO! Although the COE car for a luxury [...]

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House prices still too expensive: PropertyGuru survey

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Romesh Navaratnarajah: Driven by concerns that home prices will rise in the next six months, PropertyGuru’s Property Affordability Sentiment Index (ASI) fell further in Q4 2012, based on its latest quarterly Property Sentiment Survey done in collaboration with Blackbox Research which polled 660 online respondents. Compared with the rest of the year, the [...]

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Population White Paper: Still not listening to us

TOC Editorial – The Population White Paper published by the National Population and Talent Division could have just focused on the biggest problem that Singapore is currently facing – that of excessive immigration and our over reliance on the foreign workforce – and proposed ways to tackle that situation. Instead, what we had was an [...]

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S’pore rents still among highest in Asia

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Romesh Navaratnarajah: Singapore still has the third highest rents in Asia after Hong Kong and Tokyo, according to the latest accomodation data from human resources consultancy ECA International. Globally, the city-state is in eighth spot. For Singapore, the report focused on several thousand unfurnished three-bedroom apartments in districts 9 to 11 as well [...]

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GCBs still hot despite cooling measures

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Romesh Navaratnarajah: A good class bungalow (GCB) at 8 Chee Hoon Avenue will be auctioned next month and is expected to fetch S$ 23 million, said marketing agent Savills. With a land area of 15,184 sq ft, the elevated site offers a 37m frontage. It is within close proximity to various amenities like [...]

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Property prices still on the rise

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Cheryl Tay: Despite the government’s efforts to control property prices, Singapore home prices continue to climb. Hence, analysts expect to see more cooling measures from the government to avoid a property bubble. Driven by high demand and low interest rates, prices will likely rise by eight percent between now and 2017, according to [...]

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Retailers still facing labour crunch despite raising wages

December 31, 2012 1:41 AM SALES from festive shoppers this year may have slowed for many retailers, but that is not the only problem plaguing them. Full News here – RSS Print – Singapore

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