More new HDB flats will be built in the next few years, the income ceiling has been raised, making it easier for HDB buyers to secure their first home. The HDB resale flat market and mass market private home sectors are moving ahead cautiously. Or are they? With the way sales of executive condos and resale HDB flats are going, it certainly seems like there are no frowns here.
Executive condos introduced the charge work from home sales lately as customers searched for out cost among sky-expense. Lately, 568 EC models – largely at Blossom Houses in Bukit Panjang and RiverParc Residence in Punggol – were agreed to customers for instance HDB upgraders.
This is the most monthly EC sales recorded since they were reintroduced last October after a five-year drought. Only 212 EC homes were sold in June. This strong performance led to sales of new private homes, including ECs, rocketing 40 per cent to 1,954 units sold last month, up from 1,394 units in June.
Excluding ECs, sales leaped a far more modest 17 percent to at least 1,386 properties. Mr Ong Teck Hui, Credo Real Estate’s mind of research and working as a consultant, stated this shows the still ‘firm demand’ for ECs through the middle-earnings segment, frequently known as the ‘sandwich class’. However, they need to be listed reasonably at about 20 percent less than store bought private condos, he added.
RiverParc’s 322 units sold had a median price of $694 per sq ft (psf) while Blossom Residences sold 192 units at $702 psf. By comparison, one of the latest mass market projects, Boathouse Residences in Hougang, had an average price of $880 psf during its launch.
While 54 percent of sales were suburban houses, city fringe houses also saw greater buyer interest with 510 models offered, a lot more than double June’s sales figures. Professionals state that the greater product sales might be credited with a superstitious purchasers hurrying to commit prior to the Hungry Ghost Festival, seen by some being an inauspicious time for you to purchase a home. Take One Shenton, for instance. One Shenton, produced by City Developments Limited (CDL) is situated at 1 Shenton Way.
Low home loan rates and attractive launches lately also aided to assist the non-public market. Still, experts say the quantity of houses offered this month could dip below 1,000 models, as customers re-evaluate their options given changes to the policy to public housing such as the raising in the earnings ceiling as well as the ramping from HDB supply as stated by Pm Lee Hsien Loong within the National Day Rally speech on Sunday.
Ms Tay Huey Ying, an investigation and advisory consultant at Colliers Worldwide, stated that regardless of the pick-up in purchasing recently, product sales still lagged behind launches. ‘This is an optimistic sign the slew of government cooling measures, such as the ramping from way to obtain both public and private houses, has ongoing to operate to stem purchasing exuberance,’ she added.
Dr Chua Yang Liang, director of research at Johnson Lang LaSalle South-east Asia, noted that the similar trend seemed to be seen previously 2 yrs in which a run-up in sales was recorded before falling within the month from the Chinese festival itself. ‘August should visit a marked downturn considering the fact that the whole month coincides using the Hungry Ghost Festival as well as using the Government’s latest round of policy changes. Sales could hit 900 to 970 models,’ he added. This really is, however, depending on further global and native market conditions, Dr Chua emphasised.
Experts are, however, divided on how the residential market might perform in the later part of the year. Some expect sales to moderate due to uncertainties in the global economy. But others feel that low interest rates likely to last till 2013 will be the carrot for investors to step out of the sidelines in spite of the risks.
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