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SINGAPORE — Singapore’s residential market has achieved a better balance between sellers and buyers, according to a blog post by Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan today.
As supply-demand rebalances, property prices are adjusting, Mr Khaw wrote. While last year was the “first full year which saw home prices in decline”, which was a relief for home sellers and home owners, Mr Khaw pointed out that “the decline was moderate”. “A collapse of housing market benefits no one,” he added.
Providing an update on the pipeline supply for housing in Singapore for 2015 to 2018, Mr Khaw said Singapore’s current stock of housing units stands at about 1.28 million, with 960,000 Housing and Development Board (HDB) units and 320,000 in the private sector.
While a total of 200,034 units were projected for the pipeline supply of new homes for 2014-2017, the new figure stands at 195,788, according to Mr Khaw. He attributed the smaller figure to “the tapering of HDB’s BTO supply”.
By early 2018, the stock for housing units “would have grown to 1.43 million units, an increase of about 11 per cent” Mr Khaw wrote.
With flats and apartments taking three of four years to build, “we are enjoying the harvests of the hard labour,” Mr Khaw said. “Four years of hard work, ramping up new home construction, is seeing results,” he added.
Source: Today 20th March 2015