Eight in 10 buyers of residential property in the first quarter of 2022 are Singaporeans, with permanent residents and foreigners making up 16.3% and 2.9%, respectively, according to a chart from real estate firm, Huttons Asia.
Huttons also reported that 41% of transactions in the first quarter of 2022 are valued under $1.5m, 23.3% are between $1.5m to $2m, and 35.7% above $2m.
Even as there are no new executive condominium (EC) launched in the first quarter of 2022, ECs are an alternative to private living and continue to attract buyers. Over 132 ECs were sold in the first quarter of 2022, bringing the unsold stock to 18 as of March 2022.
Stocks to Watch $Mapletree PanAsia Com Tr (N2IU.SG)$:MAPLETREE Commercial Trust on Wednesday (Apr 20) reported a 3.4 per cent decline in distribution per unit (DPU) to S$0.0514 for the half-year ended Mar 31, down from S$0.0532 a year earlier.
Gross revenue was down 1.8 per cent to S$255.8 million for the half-year period, from S$260.3 million the year prior.
$Kep Infra Tr (A7RU.SG)$: Keppel Infrastructure Holdings (Keppel Infrastructure) and National University of Singapore (NUS) signed a master research collaboration agreement to boost low-carbon energy innovation and translational research and create solutions on smart grid renewables and clean energy as well as decarbonisation technologies.
$Sabana Reit (M1GU.SG)$: The manager of Sabana Industrial Reit (Sabana Reit) and activist investor Quarz Capital Management have been working hard to win over investors ahead of what is likely to be a contentious annual general meeting (AGM) on Apr 26.
Quarz is rallying unitholders of Sabana Reit to withhold their endorsement of former Credit Suisse trader Chan Wai Kheong as an independent director; refuse its manager the mandate to issue new units; and put a stop to its distribution reinvestment plan (DRP).
$Keppel Reit (K71U.SG)$: Keppel real estate investment trust (Reit) posted a 4.3 per cent increase in its first-quarter distributable income from operations to S$53.8 million, from S$51.6 million a year earlier.
In its Q1 business update on Wednesday (Apr 20), the Reit's manager attributed the increase in distributable income mainly to the acquisition of Keppel Bay Tower in May last year.
$Singtel (Z74.SG)$: Mainboard-Listed telco Singtel : Z74 0%said on Wednesday (Apr 20) that it has successfully priced its first digital sustainability-linked bond in partnership with UOB and private markets platform ADDX.
The US$100 million 5-year digital sustainability-linked bond (SLB) will be drawn down under Singtel Group Treasury’s existing S$10 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme and is guaranteed by Singtel. The SLB will carry a US dollar fixed coupon rate of 3.56 per cent per annum and mature on Apr 27, 2027.
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