However, that does not mean that there are no stupid writing. Or writing about stupid ideas. Or expressing stupid ideas.
Except now they get PAID to write them.
Whereas this blog is still... not bringing in any income for me.
So I guess I'm the stupid one?
Well, the poorer one.]
By Janice Lim
About half of the respondents who took part in a survey by PropertyGuru said that they expect private property prices to continue going up in the second half of 2019.
16 October, 2019
SINGAPORE — A higher proportion of Singaporeans would like the Government to regulate prices of new private homes compared to six months ago, based on a survey by property portal PropertyGuru.
Out of 794 respondents polled in the first half of this year, 58 per cent said that there should be more price regulation — up from 49 per cent in the second half of last year.
The survey, which is conducted half-yearly, also found that a majority of Singaporeans — eight out of 10 — were dissatisfied with the current real-estate climate chiefly because they felt that private property prices were overpriced.
[Let me tell you what that statistic tell me: It tells me that 8 out of 10 Singaporeans do not own private property. Or want to buy private property. Put it another way: If you own a private property for investment, is private property prices too high?]
Based on the third-quarter flash data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, private property prices have gone up by 0.9 per cent since the last quarter.
The quarter-to-quarter increase was 1.5 per cent previously.
About half of those surveyed by PropertyGuru expect private property prices to continue going up in the second half of this year.
[And they expect this because...?]
Comparatively, only about one-third felt that the prices of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats would go up. This could be due to ongoing concerns about the depleting leases of HDB resale flats.
Commenting on the prices of property in Singapore, Dr Tan Tee Khoon, country manager of PropertyGuru Singapore, said that the property market here continues to be "positively differentiated" from other markets in the region and it is a "relative safe haven given its political stability and good governance".
[Wow. so the country manager of a real estate agency, the same one that carried out this survey and revealed these findings, thinks the property market here is safe. So, no shame about conflict of interests? That's like a restaurant giving out Michelin stars to themselves.]
"Investors with diversified portfolios continue to see Singapore’s real estate as an asset class that can ride out volatility in the medium to long term,” he said.
When it comes to buying a property, the PropertyGuru survey found that Singaporeans were more cautious. The Property Purchase Intent index — which measures the likelihood of respondents buying a property here in the next six months — fell to an all-time low since the survey started nine years ago.
The overall sentiment, which took into account other concerns such as affordability, the general real-estate market climate, interest rates, property prices and perceived government intervention in the property market, was also less upbeat.
This corresponds to the gloomier outlook of Singapore's economy, with 51 per cent of the respondents feeling that the economy was not performing well — up from 37 per cent in the second half of last year.
[Must be a slow news day for the newspaper to publish such fluff. Or maybe it is "sponsored content"? Or a paid advertorial?]
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