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The impact of the additional buyer’s stamp duty on matrimonial and family home purchases

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • March 18 2013

With the stated aim of cooling demand and expanding housing supply, the Government announced on 11 January 2013 a revision of the earlierintroduced

Ice therapy to cool the property market

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • January 15 2013

On 11 January 2013, the Singapore Government announced another round of property market cooling measures, ranging from increasing the applicable

Change in project completion period rules for collective sale sites

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • December 11 2012

The Controller of Residential Property has announced a change to the commencement date of the Project Completion Period in respect of the conditions of a Qualifying Certificate for specific Developers who purchase residential land sold pursuant to a Collective Sale Order

The Monetary Authority of Singapore restricts loan tenure for residential properties

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • December 5 2012

On 5 October 2012, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the following restrictions which apply to both private

The Housing Developers (Amendment) Rules 2012 the impact of the new form of sale and purchase agreement on developers

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • December 4 2012

The Housing Developers (Amendment) Rules 2012 (HDR 2012) came into operation on 18 May 2012

Scope of ABSD more clarifications required from IRAS

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • April 23 2012

The introduction of the Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (“ABSD”) on 7 December 2011 affects certain buyers (“affected buyers”) of residential properties in Singapore, including real estate developers

Special considerations for remission of ABSD for developers

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • March 12 2012

The introduction of the Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty ("ABSD") on 7 December 2011 affects all buyers of residential properties in Singapore, including real estate developers who buy land for redevelopment

Of showflat and property advertisements

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • March 12 2012

Buying a property involves a major financial commitment on the part of the buyer and where the property is in a project still under construction, or even prior to the start of construction, the decision to make this commitment is usually based on advertisements and visits to showflats

Changing rules on residential landed property developments

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • December 20 2011

In the face of a continued troubled global economy and slower price increases in the private housing market, sale prices of landed residential properties have continued their surprising rise, as indicated by recent Urban Redevelopment Authority (“URA”) data

Latest amendments to the laws of collective sale

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • March 10 2011

The laws of collective sale were last amended in 2010 by the Land Titles (Strata) Amendment Act 2010