Less cash upfront but …

Less cash upfront but …
 
More choice for home-buyers
 
HAD you $20,000 in cash to pay for the Cash-Over-Valuation (COV) component of a resale 4-room Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, you would have better bargaining power now than in the last quarter of 2007.
 
Back then, you might just have been able to afford [...]

Private property prices slow

Private property prices slow
 
Weekend • July 26, 2008
 
PRIVATE home prices rose a slender 0.2 per cent over the second quarter. That’s half the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s earlier flash estimate of 0.4 per cent growth. This was the third consecutive quarter in which prices rose more slowly, after rocketing 31.2 per cent last year.
 
“The [...]