New Domestic Sales in August Highest When You Consider This September 2019

Despite a blend of a gloomy market, increasing unemployment rate and the Hungry Ghost month, new home sales in Singapore struck on a 11-month high in August, promoting 1,227 units (excluding executive condos (ECs)).

The Perfect Ten condo price is 13% higher than the reserve price of $355 million or $1,633 psf ppr including the $3.504 million development charge.

The elevator in earnings surprised many because of the worsening prognosis and Hungry Ghost variable, but the recently-launched Forett in Bukit Timah, that saw 212 units sold (as of 31 August) and was the first private residential launching because the circuit breaker stopped, also led to the amounts.

According to URA Realis statistics, the month’s new house sales is the greatest as the 1,270 units enrolled in September 2019, said Christine Sun, Head of Research and Consultancy in OrangeTee & Tie.

“Backed by pent-up requirement, we’d expected that August’s new house sales could fit the 1,080 units sold in July, or maybe just moderate marginally given that market action is generally slower throughout the Hungry Ghost month (that began on 19 August),” explained Wong Siew Ying, Head of Research and Content in PropNex, as mentioned by BT.

“Thus the 1,227 caveats published in August has surprised on the upside”

Ministry of Manpower (MOM) data revealed that overall retrenchments climbed from 3,220 in the first quarter to 6,700 in the next quarter.

Actually, Labour Chief Ng Chee Meng anticipates job losses to grow over the following six to 12 months since the pandemic’s financial effect becomes more broadly believed, ” said the BT report.

Meanwhile, Sun found that national demand drove month’s new house sales as Singaporeans accounted for 84.7% of their total purchases.

Knight Frank’s Head of Property Network Evan Chung reported the buyers’ profile largely fit a lot of”needs-based” buyers, including people that are needing a new home after the sale of the previous home and people about to get married or whose weddings are postponed as a result of the outbreak.

“The second factor forcing the opinion on the floor comes out of the fear of falling out,” additional Chung as mentioned by BT.

He clarified that buyers think that the chance of cost hikes for Singapore land is higher when compared with the possibility of price declines, and they would lose out on an eventual increase in strength values which have historically occurred after each downturn.

“Therefore, sales action quickly picks upon term of promotions and discounts from developers.”

The BT report demonstrated that the month’s buyers favored the more expensive homes inside the remainder of Central Region (RCR), which accounted for 604 units or 49.2% of overall sales.

Buyers were willing to shell out more as revealed by previous month higher median costs on a per sq ft (psf) foundation during that of July.

“Other than Forett In Bukit Timah, that was established in August, the majority of the best 10 best-selling jobs in August had greater median transacted psf cost in comparison to their individual median launch cost,” explained Wong.

Whistler Grand transferred 51 units a month in a median cost of $1,558 psf, an increase of 14.6% from the $1,360 psf launch cost in November 2018.

The BT report, however, noted that 2 of the top 10 jobs — The Woodleigh Residences as well as The Garden Residences — published declines in their median psf costs at 5.6% and 5.3%, respectively.