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New property cooling measures
New property cooling measures
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
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Re: New property cooling measures
- and having to sell within 6 months of buying a private condo!Wd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
Also ABSD for PR's buying their first residential property and Sinkies buying their second.
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Re: New property cooling measures
Simple: 'One room lock' ahWd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
p.s. Had you thought that rather than 'cooling the property market'*, this is just another exercise in raising taxes; popular of course as for the vast majority it will only fall on 'other people'.
* And the government certainly wouldn't wish to do that.
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One more example of how non permanent PR's scamming of the system cause hardship and restrictions for those that take their PR seriously.
I can see how the game works. Get PR as quickly as you can. Buy and HDB flat and rent it out while moving back to home country. Enjoy the income without being part of Singapore.
I can see how the game works. Get PR as quickly as you can. Buy and HDB flat and rent it out while moving back to home country. Enjoy the income without being part of Singapore.
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Yes I know a few who do that. However the vast majority don't I believe.Strong Eagle wrote:One more example of how non permanent PR's scamming of the system cause hardship and restrictions for those that take their PR seriously.
I can see how the game works. Get PR as quickly as you can. Buy and HDB flat and rent it out while moving back to home country. Enjoy the income without being part of Singapore.
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Re: New property cooling measures
Not really. HDB is more than aware of this "trick".JR8 wrote:Simple: 'One room lock' ahWd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
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Re: New property cooling measures
It's alright because eventually, there would no dirty foreigners looking for units to rent.Wd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
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Re: New property cooling measures
Well, it's only a problem if the owner lives in Singapore in another house(evn then I doubt it considering the number of ads on the property portals) But if owner goes abroad and locks one room, then technically it should be ok, because he can say that he is not renting out the whole unit but the room is for the owners belongings. I don't think it has has been explicitly mentioned anywhere that owner should also be living in the same house.x9200 wrote:Not really. HDB is more than aware of this "trick".JR8 wrote:Simple: 'One room lock' ahWd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
Right now lot of people do it during the MOP period, now only difference is the MOP is forever.
This is all lip service to pissed off SCs. You can search for it, but I posted a link to something about this last year when they first limited PRs to only 1 year of subletting their flat. Something like only 4.5% of all sublet HDB flats in Singapore were PR owned; the rest were all SC owned.
How does that song Hulk Hogan used to sing go? "I'm proud to be an Americaaaan...!"There will also be Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) rates imposed on PRs buying their first residential property and on Singaporeans purchasing their second residential property.
This one is interesting:
More than a few estates are going to hit this in the next few years. I'm curious what it will do to resale HDB prices, especially in places like Marine Parade where we have people asking S$400k for 3-rooms with no view, and just shy of a million for 5 rooms, in units that were built in the 70s12 An additional measure will take effect on 1 July 2013 to tighten the terms for granting HDB loans and the use of CPF funds for the purchase of HDB flats with remaining leases of less than 60 years (details of this measure are in Annex IV).
Hmm. Could a perfect storm be brewing? Of course, whatever happens it'll all be the fault of us foreigners. We're blamed for the current high property prices, but if the market does cool to any significant extent then we will doubtless also be blamed for having caused the value of their 'investments' to have fallen.
Always handy to have a scapegoat.
Always handy to have a scapegoat.
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Re: New property cooling measures
In todays ST - fringe rentals are already falling....nakatago wrote:It's alright because eventually, there would no dirty foreigners looking for units to rent.Wd40 wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/ED ... g-measures
Most important part PRs will not be allowed to rent out their HDB. Very very interesting!
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A rather moronic question. We're not property gurus - we're expats.auet wrote:Would appreciate if anyone can advice on whether the new cooling measures will affect the price of HDB executive apartments (those that are near to mrt station)?
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