#3: 3 Trends for New Launch Properties in 2023

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Welcome back to Nuggets On The Go Season 3, Episode 2.

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We’re right now in 2023, and we’re gonna talk about Part 2

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of where we left off in Episode 1.

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So if you have not watched Episode 1, do head back to

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click on this link and that will bring you to

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the onset of our discussion on 2023 Property Crash or Shift.

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So for today’s episode we’re gonna talk about

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seven property trends that we think

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might evolve right now in the year 2023. Let’s go.

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So for Part 2, I’m gonna dive straight into

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some of the key highlights of property news

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that have sprouted over the last two to three months.

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So let’s have a look at this very first news,

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which is talking about the rental rate,

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in terms of volume that happened in December.

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And later we’re gonna talk about one of the trending

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because this is a hot topic for this year

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because rental rates have burst through the roof.

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And of course that has been favourable for landlords,

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but unfavourable for tenants.

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And we’re gonna talk about what will likely

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be trending in the next 12 to 24 months.

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Will rental rates continue to rise,

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in conjunction with what’s gonna happen now?

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So this news just came out yesterday

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talking about record employment in the whole year of 2022.

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And though 2022 was the year of the black swan

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with Ukraine war, with crypto crash, with stock crashing,

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with tax stocks crashing, as well as interest rate rising

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for seven rounds by Federal Reserve.

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And of course Singapore’s interest rate right now

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averages is at about 4% to 4.2%.

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This of course came as a surprising news

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that our unemployment rates have dipped.

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And employment is actually

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in a very healthy range right now.

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And of course we do see condo resale volumes

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drop 14% in December.

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However, this is something to do with

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probably what we call a revenge traveling kind of trending

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that came out over the last quarter of last year

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because everybody was so busy traveling.

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If you look at your social media feed,

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everything is about your friends traveling to Korea,

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to Japan, to Taiwan, to like, you know,

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Switzerland, and everybody was busy traveling

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over the last season.

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And I think that has contributed to a drop in

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the volume itself.

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But of course I think the key thing was

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because of the rising mortgage interest rates

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has caused probably fear among property buyers

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that want to wait on the sidelines to time the market.

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Now this has also been a hot topic because

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our government is currently in the season

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whereby they need to talk about

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the affordability of public housing,

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the cost of constructing BTOs,

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and this of course will go on for the next couple of months.

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Let’s wait and see on what is the expected

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kind of debate on this.

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Home prices on the whole of Q4 still went up by 8.6%

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and of course this was the hot topic

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that I talked about in Part 1,

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about the holding power and behaviour

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kind of changes and mindset of existing people

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that are holding onto properties,

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whether do they hold one, two?

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Or for example foreign investors

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holding three to four properties.

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What is going through their mindset now,

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and what is their thinking about

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whether should they fire-sale the property?

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Is there a need to even do that,

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or what is actually their threshold

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for holding on to their properties?

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And of course I’ve answered that in Part 1

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whereby there’s technically no need for people

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to fire-sale their property

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because their mindset has been so different

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with so many round of cooling measures

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already pre-built in the pricing.

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Everybody has technically very high holding power.

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They enter into a property with a mindset

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that they will hold for mid to long-term

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and they have already locked in rates

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last time with probably 2% rates or 3% interest rates

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and there’s no need for them to fire-sale their property.

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Unless we have a very prolonged recession in Singapore,

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which technically there’s currently,

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we’re not even in a recession at all.

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And even in the US, technically, although a lot of people say that

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they are already in a recession,

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but you need two negative quarters of GDP growth

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to be technically called a technical recession,

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but it’s still not happening yet.

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Inflation, China’s reopening, US’ possible recession

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might define what will happen this year.

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And at the same time, confusing news is that

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we are at a 15-year low in terms of our

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unsold housing stock.

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At the same time you also see prices still creeping up

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on a month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter basis.

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SGD being the most resilient currency.

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And then last but not least,

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there’s gonna be quite a fair bit of new launches

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that will happen this year,

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possibly about 47 different new launches.

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And I’m gonna move on to this first graph

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before I head on to the seven property trends for 2023

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that we think will happen this year.

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Stay tuned with all our upcoming episode

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for how it’s gonna go, because for 2023 we’re gonna ramp up

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as well, in terms of our episodes

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and I think you’re gonna see at least

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two to three episodes per month.

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And this is my passion to talk to you about

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what is gonna happen in the next 12 to 24 months

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because I myself am very excited on the trendings

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that might possibly happen.

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So the first graph is to look at this.

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Why is there this upward movement

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even though we had this slight glitch of recession

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that happened during the COVID season.

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And of course for the past two rounds of recession,

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depicted by this period of recession orange graph here,

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we had a dip of about 6% to 10%.

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There was this even sharper dip on 19% to 26%

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during this period.

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But something to note during this two seasons is that

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when we look at price dips in Singapore,

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we have to see whether did cooling measures

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come in during that season?

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So I talk about this in a lot of episodes before is that,

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three things to note.

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When we see this during a period of recession,

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in the past, during the dot-com bubble,

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during the Lehman Brothers crisis,

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how many cooling measures were there

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in our Singapore property price index?

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Because ever since 2009 until now,

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we are close to about 14 rounds of cooling measures

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compared to the past where there were almost like

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no cooling measures at all.

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Secondly, is to note that during this period right here,

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what is the volume of transactions during that season?

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Because in Singapore we have to note that

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our property price behaviour is very different

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from what happens globally.

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Singaporeans have 90% homeownership rates

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as long as they can service their monthly mortgage,

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as long as they have jobs to pay for the monthly instalment.

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And let me just share with you,

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a lot of you have very different kind of perspectives

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in terms of holding onto the property.

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If times are bad, homeowners sometimes they’ll tell me that

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they can always rent out one room, or two rooms

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to room tenants just to support

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the mortgage a little bit.

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When times are bad, they’ll take another 6

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to maybe 12 months to find a job,

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but they have some level of savings in their CPF.

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And sometimes when you look at

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different kinds of perspectives, you tend to understand that

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it is because 90% of Singaporeans own their own homes.

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That is why there is actually much less motivation

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for them to fire-sale their property,

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unless both husband and wife are in

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a jobless situation for a very, very long time.

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So when we track back to this graph, October 2008 season,

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you’ll notice that this is the volume graph.

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Volume tends to be low during the recession period

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when prices dip at that time.

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Now this is correlated to the behaviour

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of existing homeowners in the market.

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Because naturally speaking,

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if you currently have two properties

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and if you are in no need to sell,

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you will only sell your property

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and make tweaks to your current property portfolio

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when prices are going up.

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So the human tendency of property owners

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and property investors that have properties is that

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they will only sell when prices are going up,

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or if they think that the price has peaked.

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And then they’ll wanna exit and buy something else,

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exit and reinvest into other bigger or more properties,

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or maybe divest and invest in other kinds of

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assets and equities.

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When prices are going down,

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the natural behaviour of human beings is that

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we will then pull ourselves out of the market.

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If I have a couple of properties that I’m holding on,

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I’ll just continue to rent them until times become better.

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This is a natural human kind of inclination

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is that people will only sell when prices are good.

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People who sell during this season have two behaviour flows.

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Number one, is that they are really in need of selling.

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Number two, is that they saw something that is bigger

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and better in terms of property asset

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and they think that it is okay for them to exit

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their current property in order to enjoy a bigger gain

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by switching their property in a down season

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like this period, during the Lehman Brothers crisis

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that season.

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So let’s come back to this season is that now we are here,

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and if we look at 2020 where there was a slight recession

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but prices was still going up,

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look back at our previous episode where we talk about the fact

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that Singapore is currently now a safe haven,

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plus there are so many cooling measures

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pre-built into the price.

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And that will then bring us to this first trend that

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we wanna discuss in this episode.

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So seven trends that might happen in 2023

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in our private residential property market.

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So take note, therefore, today’s focus, we’ll talk about

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private residential property market and

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we’ll focus more on condos and apartments.

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We’ll not talk about HDB apartments.

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We’ll not talk about HDB properties today.

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We will not talk about landed residential today.

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So trend number one is that there will be

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plus-minus about 26 different properties,

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in terms of condos and apartments,

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that will hit their completion date this year.

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That means, in short,

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is that they will receive their temporary occupation permit,

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we call it the TOP date.

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So there will be likely of a plus-minus 26 projects

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that will TOP this year.

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And what might happen is that some of these owners

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that have bought into these properties about three years ago

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because take note that some of these properties

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being launched in the 2019, 2020 season,

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and of course some properties have

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a little bit of delayed completion because of the COVID period.

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So a lot of all these owners

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actually bought into the properties in around 2019,

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and then 2020, and now it has TOP-ed.

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And naturally all these owners, most of them,

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if they’re not buying the balance inventory,

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say last year or the year before,

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most of them to a certain extent,

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and I will say that is a very high percentage,

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they have already completed their three years

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Seller’s Stamp Duty.

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So what will happen is that,

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if they were to put this property in the market,

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they will definitely ask for high prices.

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And high prices in this context is that

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they will not ask for the same price

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that they bought into last time.

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So for example, if you look at Stirling Residences,

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on average, everybody bought into the property

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at $1,600 PSF, $1,800 PSF.

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It TOP-ed just a couple months ago.

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And now everybody is asking this current pricing.

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And then this is what I deem as they’ll ask for high prices

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in the sense that they’ll ask for a higher price than what

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they have entered in the past.

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So how much are Stirling Residences’ owners asking for?

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And now they’re asking for between $2,200+ PSF,

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all the way to $2,500 PSF.

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And that is what I categorise as high prices

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in the sense that they will definitely ask for higher prices

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than the PSF that they entered

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because it doesn’t make sense for them to sell back

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at $1,700 PSF, $1,800 PSF,

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or even at $2,000 PSF.

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A lot of owners are finding that

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it doesn’t make sense for them to exit.

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They might as well just rent it out, or they might just

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continue to live in this brand new beautiful property

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that has just completed.

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And they’ve waited for so long

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within the last three years.

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This is trend number one.

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It means that if you’re hunting for a property

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in the market, you don’t wanna go for new launches,

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you don’t wanna go for resale,

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you wanna go for this hybrid category,

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which is what we call TOP-ed projects.

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Because these properties are fresh out of the oven,

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they have just been completed, nobody has lived in them before.

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They’re brand new, brand new.

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It’s just that you will be the second owner

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because you’re buying from the first owner

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to have waited for three years.

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You’ll definitely need to pay for the TOP prices

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because this is in exchange for the time and opportunity

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cost that the first owner has waited beforehand.

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So this is what we call, and thus

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this is the trend number one is that there will be

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around 26 projects that will hit the market.

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This is a fresh level of inventory

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that’s available for buyers to choose from.

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And naturally the owners that have bought in the past,

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because they have bought in the previous benchmark pricing

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of new launches,

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they are not gonna sell back at those kind of pricing.

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They’ll ask for this new range of price

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which will all be in the $2,000+ PSF range

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for RCR projects.

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And if you wanna have a look at this article

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there’s this very nice article that came out

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on PropertyGuru.

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So I’ll attach the link right below for you as well.

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And if you were to look at this chart

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that will also give you an indication

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of roughly how many units will TOP in the year 2024.

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Because if you look at 2023,

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this entire chart talks about the number of condos and ECs

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that will be completed on a year-to-year basis.

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And of course don’t be deceived by this graph line.

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And why do I say that there’s no need to be deceived

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because this is not the price index,

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this is basically the number of condos and ECs

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that will be completed.

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So when you look at this,

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these two years have one of the most numbers of properties

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that will be completed in terms of

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number of properties that will TOP.

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And what does this mean is that

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there’s gonna be a fresh supply hitting the resale market.

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This means that buyers can have a little bit more choices

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to look at TOP-ed projects,

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but provided you’re comfortable to go for the pricing.

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But these are also home buyers that wants to buy

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properties that nobody has lived in before.

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So with that, that will bring us to trend number two

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because maybe a lot of you are asking

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what is gonna happen to the high exorbitant rental rates

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that have happened over the past 12 months.

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Right now rental rates are extremely, extremely crazy.

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And of course it’s good for landlords

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because your rental use is gonna be high.

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But landlords are also battling with

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higher mortgage interest rates, right?

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If they happen to have just refinanced,

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they’ll have to refinance at maybe 4%

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for the next one year or two years.

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And of course a lot of tenants are asking,

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will rental rates continue to be this high

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for the next 24 months?

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Based on this tool,

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there’s likely going to be about 30,000 units

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hitting the resale market

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because these are properties that will TOP.

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And that might mean that rental rates will come down

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in 2024.

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So I don’t think it will happen in 2023,

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I think it will start to happen in 2024.

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But I don’t think it will drop below previous baselines.

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That means we will be at a new range of rental rates,

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but it will taper off to a more stable level

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in the sense that it will be slightly easier

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for tenants to look for private residential condo rentals.

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But also have to factor in that this new TOP-ed projects

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will also have a high percentage of

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owners moving into the projects.

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Because they’ve waited for three years,

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they actually bought these properties for own stay

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and they might wanna move in and live in those properties.

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But there will be a category, for example,

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maybe 1- or 2-bedders,

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that will purchase for investment and

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these homeowners that have bought into new launches

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in this category might want to rent it out.

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That might also mean that existing owners,

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that are currently renting,

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while waiting for these projects to hit TOP,

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will then end their leases once it expires.

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Maybe they have signed a 1-, 2-, or 3-year lease

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and once it ends, they will then collect their keys,

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move into these properties after they’ve renovated,

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and those units that they were occupying previously,

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will then be available.

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So in combination,

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people who have been renting for 1-2, or 3 years,

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moving into their TOP-ed projects,

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these units will then be freed up in the market

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for- to satisfy a little bit more rental demand.

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TOP-ed projects over 2022, 2023,

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will also have a little bit more fresh supply

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in terms of rental,

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will then satisfy a little bit more demand.

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In task, we think that in totality,

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rental rates will start to taper off to a more stable level.

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But I don’t think it will drop drastically,

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I just think that you will be a little bit more affordable.

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Trend number three is that this is the year of new launches.

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Now just have a look at this graph again.

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This graph tells us the appetite of developers.

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That was why in 2021, 2022, you saw en bloc happening,

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you saw more aggressive bidding for land.

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And that is why in the first half of 2023,

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government has released a little bit more

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government land sales to satisfy the demand

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because our government cannot allow excessive bidding

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for lower supply of land

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because that will then jack up the price of GLS too much.

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So they have to come in with more land

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to satisfy the demand of developers.

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And a lot of these projects that were bidded

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over 2021, 2022,

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are going to be launched in this and next year.

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And of course developers have five years to complete selling

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their properties before they’re taxed with ABSD.

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And thus these two years is considered

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the year of the new launches.

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So take a look at this article from EdgeProp is that

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there’s approximately plus-minus about 40-over projects

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that will be launched likely this year.

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And I think it is a very exciting year

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because if you are somebody that loves to buy new launches,

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you’re gonna have a lot more choices to choose from.

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However, we also need to move to trend number four,

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is that new launches is in a new five year season.

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And we have to get used to the new

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new launch benchmark pricing.

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And what is this five year season?

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So we talk about this during the early part of 2022,

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I released an episode to share with our audience

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to go and buy up all the balance inventory

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of the balanced stock of new launches

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that was launched pre-2022.

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If you have seen that episode, you would then understand

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what I was talking about previously,

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because in my opinion at the start of 2022,

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just about 12 months back,

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I shared that all these balanced units

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will be cleared off very, very soon.

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And the rationale was because back then,

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last year in 2022 and the previous year in 2021,

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we were at a starting phase of this new five year season.

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There seems to be this five years kind of movement

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in my own opinion, and every five year,

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this cycle push up the new launch PSF pricing

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by about $400 PSF to $500 PSF.

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That is of course a combination of reasons

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and one of the reasons is because developers tend to

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have a little bit more cash on hand.

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When you see seasons like this,

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in the sense that they’re going to hand over

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a lot of the projects that are going to complete.

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And thus, they have more buying power

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and they become more hungry to bid up new land.

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Developers of course have to keep bidding for land

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and to create new products for the market,

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and they cannot just not bid for land.

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And thus, whenever you see trending like this going upwards.

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It shows that developers are going to complete

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most of the projects,

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and when the project is being completed,

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developers will call for progressive payment

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towards the last stage,

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and that means that they have more buffer

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within their cash holdings,

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and then they’ll then bid for more land

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in anticipation of their land bank depleting.

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So coming back to trend number four,

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before I sidetrack even further,

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this five years trending tells us that

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there is a movement possibly

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based on a lot of underlying factors,

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developers’ appetite to bid for new land.

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And because land cost is always increasing year-on-year,

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and with inflation, construction costs,

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there’s gonna be more cost price into

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the government land sales,

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as well as the final bidding price plus the final

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output of PSF that will be translated

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into the actual new launch pricing for consumers.

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This shows us where we are at right now.

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So for 2023 we are in this price bracket,

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and we have to unfortunately get use to this new level.

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And of course, just have a look at the

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last transacted pricing at Lentor Modern has done very well.

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We are at this level.

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so RCR is at a range of $2,200 PSF to $2,800 PSF.

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OCR is at at $1,800 PSF to $2,200 PSF,

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or maybe even slightly higher towards the end of the year.

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CCR is between $2,600 PSF all the way towards $3,500 PSF

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or maybe even $3,600 PSF and $3,800 PSF in the future.

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And we have already moved past this pricing

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from 2015 to 2020, and we have to get used to the fact that

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right now when you look at new launches,

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it’s all at this level.

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Sooner or later, everything is above $2,000 PSF

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and then $2,500 PSF.

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We have to get used to it because

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Singapore is right now a global city.

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There’s a lot of liquidity flooding into the market

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from foreign investors because we are seen as a safe haven.

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Based on what is happening in the ASEAN region,

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a lot of people favour Singapore.

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This is an entire deck of 2023’s upcoming new launch pricing

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with an estimated launch price, estimated breakeven price.

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And we also inputted the land PPR PSF right here as well.

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So there’s three colour codings,

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and this has been faithfully done by our PLB Research Team

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Now, trend number five is that,

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properties that are 3- or 4-bedders

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that are below $2 mil the resale market,

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I believe they will be snapped up very, very quickly

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for the rest of 2023.

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And why is that so?

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It’s because if you were to look at

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the new launch average transacted pricing for 2022,

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OCR is at $1,893 PSF on average

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in terms of median PSF transacted,

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we’re talking about transacted for the last 12 months.

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RCR is at $2,336 PSF.

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CCR is at $2,876 PSF.

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However, when you look at resale, OCR new launches

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was averagely done at $1,800+ PSF,

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but OCR resale was averagely done

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at about $1,300+ PSF.

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So there’s a disparity of close to about $500 PSF here.

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RCR averagely done at about $2,300+ PSF,

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resale RCR, $1,600+ PSF.

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Another $600 PSF to $700 PSF disparity in between.

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CCR averagely done at about $2,800 PSF for new launch,

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resale averagely done at about $2,180-over PSF.

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Averagely, $600 PSF to $700 PSF disparity.

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This disparity will translate in a heavier fashion

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in the OCR market, in my perspective.

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The rationale is because in the OCR market,

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in this island map, OCR is out of central region.

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It also has the largest population of HDB housing estates

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and that means that it has the largest population

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of HDB upgrading families.

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And HDB upgrading families

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that are aspiring to move from their HDB properties,

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that has made them a positive return

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into the private residential market.

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They will have a very high demand

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for at least a 3-bedroom, or 4-bedroom,

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or even bigger than a 4-bedder like a penthouse.

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So what I forecast, in my personal opinion,

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of course when you watch our Nuggets On The Go,

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we always put this disclaimer at the top bar here

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just to share with you that

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property investment is a huge investment.

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Do talk to your consultant. Of course,

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you can come to PropertyLimBrothers

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Just click on the link right here to key in your name

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So for a non-obligation consult session

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So coming back is that, this disparity is going to create

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a demand in the OCR market for 3- and 4-bedders.

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So anything that is below $2 mil will be heavily demanded

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over the next 12 to 18 months.

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And we think that this category of properties

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are gonna move very fast and are going to happen.

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And what is the likely outlook in 18 months’ time is that

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when you search on the property portals,

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you might find that it’s increasingly difficult

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to find properties below $2 mil in OCR

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that are 3- and 4-bedders.

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This is something that might happen.

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And trend number six is that, if Fed in US

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does reduce interest rates in 2024,

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what do you think will happen

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to our property prices in 2024?

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And of course if you look at some of the trending,

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some of the projections and news as well,

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very likely a lot of analysts are forecasting that

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Fed is gonna bring down the interest rate

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during 2024 season and 2025 season.

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And if that does happen,

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naturally, our mortgage rates in Singapore

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is gonna adjust accordingly, as well.

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Because we pack our rates very closely

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to the US federal funds rate.

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And if that happens,

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what do you think is gonna happen to our property prices?

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Naturally, developers, existing homeowners,

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that intend to sell, they will not sell low.

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They will definitely raise their asking prices

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because they now know that buyers have more buying power.

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And of course there’s a lot of couple of articles

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that you can search online that

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a lot of people are expecting rates to come down in 2024.

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And that means that it might happen

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in the next 12 months.

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And thus, it will also mean that

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if somebody’s waiting at the sidelines down,

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and you already know that rates are gonna come down

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in 12 months time,

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then if rates are gonna come in 12 months time,

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and prices are gonna start going upwards

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in terms of seller’s expectation,

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then does it make sense to continue to wait out

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until next year to purchase next year?

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Why don’t you start analysing and hunting

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a little bit more seriously this year?

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Because something to note is that

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there will be two things that will happen.

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Number one, even if let’s say

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we were to buy a property this year,

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we buy at 4% interest rate, this is not going to be forever.

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Interest rates fluctuate and change year-on-year basis.

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Last time we used to be enjoying 1.2%, 1.5%,

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and it suddenly just shoot out to 2%-over,

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3%-over, and 4% in 2022.

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Right now in 2023, it’s averagely at about 4%.

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And as long as you just take a non lock-in package,

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you are free to refinance next year.

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If let’s say rates come down to 3%,

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then you can refinance at 3% for another one year.

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And then when rates come down further,

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hopefully to 2.5%, or 2%,

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you can then refinance again.

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It is not a forever thing,

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and note that mortgage interest rate does change.

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So there’s flexibility involved.

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However, if let’s say price would appreciate

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by let’s say 10% next year,

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and you buy a property at, let’s say,

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another $300K in terms of total price quantum,

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because maybe you can buy something at $2 mil now,

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but you have to buy at $2.3 mil next year.

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And even though you buy at $2.3 mil, at 3% interest rate,

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compared to $2 mil at 4% interest rate,

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it’s still more worth it to buy now

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because you can refinance your package later on.

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Trend number seven, lastly.

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This is the final trend before we end our session,

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is that if Fed were to reduce their interest rates in 2024,

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and then our mortgage rates come down,

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when mortgage rates go down,

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something will happen is that buyer’s demand will come back

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because buyers will now have more buying power.

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And if they know that rates are going down,

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naturally you and I,

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if let’s say I’m hunting for a property,

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I’ll be more excited to buy a property because

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interest rates are down.

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And I want to secure a property ASAP

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before sellers increase their price even more.

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When demand and transaction volumes surge,

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and if that were to happen next year,

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what do you think will happen to our property prices?

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Property prices might start to go up at a faster rate

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and then that might mean that our government

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might have to step in more with more cooling measures.

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And if more cooling measures come in,

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if our government is going to do more structural change

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to TDSR or increase ABSD further,

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I think it would then be harder and harder

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to buy a property.

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And then if you look at this,

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we already have 13 to 14 rounds.

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There’s so many cooling measures built into the market

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and this is what is happening,

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then why should we buy a property

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when there are more cooling measures later?

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Why shouldn’t we buy a property

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and take a little bit more analysis and action now?

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So last but not least, I wanna end off with this article

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for this episode is that a lot of investors,

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high-net-worth, ultra high-net-worth,

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are aiming for Singapore properties because this is

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not just a place to park wealth.

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And if you look at this article,

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the article is very interesting because

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even though wealthy foreigners are gaining less

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from buying properties in Singapore,

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that is actually not their core objective.

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Their core objective is to park their wealth here

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to make their wealth safe because Singapore is a safe haven.

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So I’ll end with this article for you

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and I hope that you enjoyed Nuggets On The Go Season 3

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in 2023, Episode 2.

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I’ll see you on Episode 3

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where I’m going to talk about rental rates

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as well as the differences between buying and renting.

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Alright, see you soon. Cheers.