Preparing for a Property Upturn: Trends and Pitfalls in Real Estate Investments

  • 2h 42m
  • Ku Swee Yong
  • Marshall Cavendish
  • 2017

The property market goes through cycles, and an investor needs to understand market conditions for a balanced view on opportunities and risks. But how can one sift through the noise and formulate a clear strategy?

Respected market analyst and fifth-time author Ku Swee Yong looks at market trends, explains the impact of government policies and dispels common misconceptions. The lead articles delve into how the residential sector will be affected by the ageing population and the expiry of many HDB flats’ 99-year lease, and offer suggestions for the Concept Plan 2021. Others sketch out how the property landscape will be affected by changes in the retail scene, the adoption of FinTech, the rise of co-working & co-living spaces.

Preparing for a Property Upturn provides an exciting overview of the current and future real estate issues. Whether you are seeking local or regional prospects, investors and market practitioners alike will benefit from perspectives which are backed by extensive data and research.

About the Author

Ku Swee Yong is the CEO and Key Executive Officer of International Property Advisor Pte Ltd and a co-founder of HugProperty.com. He was previously the CEO of Century 21 Singapore, and before running his own practice, he was a Director in the Real Estate Centre of Expertise at Société Générale Private Banking, responsible for advising clients on real estate investments. Swee Yong has published four other books on the property market and his opinion is regularly featured in the Straits Times, Business Times, Channel NewsAsia, TODAY, etc. He is among a rare few property agents who has been appointed as an adjunct lecturer in National University of Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

In this Book

  • Nearing the Edge of the Precipice—Ageing Population and the Housing Market
  • Facing the 99-Year Leasehold Chasm of Public Housing
  • Concept Plan 2021—What’s Next for Singapore’s Built Environment?
  • Makeshift Patching Will Not Fix Defects in the Singapore Property Market
  • Singaporeans are Ageing Fast—Let’s Get Planning
  • Recycling Tanglin Halt
  • Market Watchers Expecting Slashed Prices Will Be Waiting for Godot
  • The Case of Disappearing Households
  • No Lack of Space for 10 Million Population
  • Time to Take Action on Real Estate Policies
  • Drop in Private Housing Vacancy Rate Confounds
  • From Scarcity Comes Bargaining Power
  • Counting the Love of Aircon Ledges in Dollars
  • Helping First-Timer Families While Hindering Entrepreneurship
  • Office Space—Where Do We Go from Here?
  • FinTech and the Decline of Office Sector
  • Retail Slump—When Will it Recover?
  • Retail Woes—Don’t Blame the Landlords
  • Two Pills for Orchard Road’s Ills
  • Hotspots—What’s with All the Media Hype?
  • The Big Singapore Market Upgrade?
  • The Patterns of Dodgy Property Agents
  • Self-Service Potholes
  • Should I Set up a Company to Buy Singapore Property?
  • Ganbatte Japan!
  • Why Not Malaysia?
  • Focus on Regional Bread-and-Butter Housing Products
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