News about capital

MOK Wei Wei, managing director of W Architects, can lay claim to being the architect who has designed the most condominium projects in one of Singapore’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, Nassim Hill.

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): CapitaLand has made its third acquisition in Vietnam within 14 months with the purchase of a prime site in Ho Chi Minh City, for US$51.

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): DBS Group Research has upgraded CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) to “buy” from “hold”, with a marginally higher target price of S$2.

SINGAPORE (Sept 21): Despite the resale market remaining vibrant in August, with 750 caveats lodged, OCBC Research is maintaining its “neutral” call on the property sector, citing physical oversupply for 2016 to 2017.

SINGAPORE (Sept 19): Singapore’s property market received a boost from resale transactions in light of flagging primary sales in August, says DBS.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 9): Qi City integrated development by Green Venture Capital (GVC), a subsidiary of Wawasan Qi Properties Group (WQIP), is poised to be the next catalyst for Ipoh and it’s expected to contribute RM1.

SINGAPORE (Sept 9): Maybank Kim Eng has upgraded two Singapore office REITs, CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) and Keppel REIT, to “buy” from “hold”, even as office rents are expected to continue to slide in the near term.

SINGAPORE (Sept 5): When the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced changes to the Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) framework last Thursday, the regulatory authority made it clear that it was not the easing of property cooling measures that some are hankering after.

WITH the expected improvements in infrastructure that come from having a high speed rail station, towns such as Seremban in Negeri Sembilan and Ayer Keroh in Melaka will see more significant growth in their property values than the more developed and larger cities, said Henry Butcher Malaysia chief operating officer Tang Chee Meng.

SINGAPORE (Sept 1): CapitaLand on Thursday announced the launch of Victoria Park Villas, a landed housing project located in Singapore’s District 10 and the only prime landed residential site to be awarded under the Government Land Sales programme since 1996.