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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.
What Singapore property agencies may not do with clients' money
Singapore law keeps property agencies away from transaction money, moneylenders and undisclosed side income. The rules, the records an agency must keep, and the penalties.
What a buyer or tenant can expect of a property agent in Singapore
Singapore's Code of Ethics and CEA's practice guidelines set out what an agent owes a buyer or tenant: checks on the property, every offer passed on, conflicts declared, papers explained.
Singapore property agents and AI: what the data and advert rules ask
Singapore has no single AI rulebook for property agencies. A guide to what the data protection guidelines, the Do Not Call rules and the advertising guidelines say when a tool is used.
Singapore property auctions in figures: listings, sales and sellers
What Singapore's auction desks publish each quarter: how many properties are put up, how few sell under the hammer, and how lenders came to supply most of the list.
Singapore property cooling measures: the rounds from 2009 to 2026
A dated timeline of Singapore's cooling measures since 2009: what each round changed, who announces them, the stated aims, what prices did next and what was eased.
Singapore property portals: who owns them and what agents pay
Who owns Singapore's main property portals, what PropertyGuru's published package grid charges agents, and what CEA's advertising rules ask of every online listing, as read in October 2026.
Singapore agency accounts: where each commission dollar goes
What the published accounts of PropNex and APAC Realty, owner of ERA, show about commission income in Singapore, the share passed to salespersons and what the agency keeps.
Singapore reviews officers' home purchases near future MRT stations
Singapore's Public Service Division has reviewed 191 officers' property purchases near future MRT stations. The minister's reply of 6 October sets out the rules that guard planning information.