"Number of housing units expected to grow to 1.43m units by early 2018: Khaw"

Number of housing units expected to grow to 1.43m units by early 2018: Khaw

Singapore’s current stock of housing units stands at about 1.28 million, with 960,000 (75%) Housing and Development Board (HDB) units and 320,000 (25%) in the private sector. While a total of 200,034 units (~15%) were projected for the pipeline supply of new homes for 2014-2017, the new figure stands at 195,788, according to Mr Khaw (~50,000 per year).

"Home buyers to get more accurate snapshot of property market from fuller price disclosures. Thumbs up for move to release net prices of individual units in projects"

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/housing/story/homebuyers-get-more-accurate-snapshot-property-market-fuller-price-disc

"Analysts revise forecasts upwards for Sibor, SOR"

http://www.todayonline.com/business/analysts-revise-forecasts-upwards-sibor-sor

"New home prices have weakened over the past year, and analysts say new units are likely to be more competitively priced."

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/singapore/new-private-homes-likely/1649226.html

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released on 23 Jan 2015 the real estate statistics for 4th Quarter 2014.

Original source: http://www.ura.gov.sg/.../medi.../news/2015/jan/pr15-03.aspx