Singapore
Singapore: prices, rules and the registered salespersons of one of the world’s costliest markets.
Who may conduct a property auction in Singapore, and under what rules
Singapore licensed its auctioneers from 1906 until 1 August 2000. What replaced the licence, where the Estate Agents Act stops, and what a seller or bidder can still check.
After the BTO ballot in Singapore: booking, fees and key collection
What follows a successful HDB ballot in Singapore: the queue position, the booking appointment, the Agreement for Lease, stamp and legal fees, key collection and cancellation.
Caveats and title searches in a Singapore property purchase
What a caveat does in a Singapore property deal, what the Singapore Land Authority charges to lodge, extend, withdraw or search one, and when a caveat is wrongful.
Complaining about a property agent in Singapore: what CEA does next
How Singapore's Council for Estate Agencies handles a complaint: lodging it, the investigation, censure, the Disciplinary Committee, appeals, and the scheme for money disputes.
What a conveyancing lawyer does and charges in a Singapore home purchase
How legal work on a Singapore home purchase is priced: HDB's published scale, private fees with no scale since 2003, fee versus disbursement, and how a bill is disputed.
Using CPF savings for a first home in Singapore: limits and HPS
What CPF Ordinary Account savings may pay for when buying a first home in Singapore, the two ceilings on their use, the lease-to-95 test and the Home Protection Scheme.
Signing and stamping Singapore property papers: what can go digital
Which matters Singapore's Electronic Transactions Act keeps out, how Sign with Singpass works, the 14-day stamp duty clock, and how law firms lodge land instruments electronically.
Running a property agency in Singapore: licence, KEO, cover and fees
How a Singapore property agency is licensed: the key executive officer, insurance minimums, fee tiers, the three-year term and the disciplinary penalties a firm can face.
Singapore first-time buyers: BTO ballot, flat classes and CPF grants
How a first home is bought from HDB in Singapore: the HFE letter, the BTO ballot and its quotas, what Standard, Plus and Prime change, and the CPF housing grants.
Foreign buyers of Singapore homes in figures since the 60% duty
What consultancies and ministers have published on foreign and permanent resident buyers of Singapore private homes since April 2023, from market share to treaty remissions and audits.
Singapore's Government Land Sales programme: how the two lists work
How Singapore sells State land to developers: the half-yearly programme, the Confirmed and Reserve Lists, the tender, the deadlines that follow, and the second-half 2026 figures.
Singapore's official property tools: what HDB, URA and CEA put online
A guide to the property tools Singapore's public bodies run themselves: HDB's flat portal and resale price files, URA's transaction searches and map portal, and CEA's register.
Cheques, FAST and CPF: how a Singapore home purchase is paid
What official pages name as the instrument for each sum in a Singapore flat purchase, the S$200,000 ceiling on FAST, and the end of corporate cheques set for 31 December 2026.
Singapore: IOI Properties to buy Shenton House from its own chief
The Malaysian developer will pay S$1 for the company that owns the Shenton Way tower, repay S$217 million of its chief executive's advances and take on the debt.
Singapore's five largest property agencies, read from public records
Headcount from the regulator, ownership, what the two listed groups disclose, how teams move and why agency numbers keep falling in Singapore, as read in October 2026.
Singapore mortgagee sales and Sheriff's sales: how the auctions work
When a lender may sell a mortgaged home in Singapore, how the Sheriff auctions seized property, and what a bidder signs up to: deposits, deadlines and the limits of the title.
Buying a new home from a developer in Singapore: how payments work
What Singapore's prescribed forms say about paying for a new private home: the booking fee, the option, the stage payments, the stakeholder's 13% and the defects year.
Singapore: state chalet in Pasir Ris reopens as 380-room co-living hotel
A 1980s government chalet on state land in Pasir Ris now runs as Coliwoo Resort Changi. How the tender worked, what it costs in rent and who the rooms are for.
Late completion of a Singapore private home sale: interest and notices
What the Law Society's Conditions of Sale 2020 require in the weeks before completion of a Singapore resale, how costs are split, and what a late completion costs each side.
Singapore agency AI tools: what ERA and PropNex have announced
What two of Singapore's largest agency groups say their AI tools do, the dates and usage figures they give, what they say about data and accuracy, and what stays undisclosed.