THE SINGAPORE PROPERTY SECTOR: AN OVERVIEW

Nandini Vijayaraghavan and Umesh Desai

Chapter 16 in The Singapore Blue Chips:The Rewards & Risks of Investing in Singapore's Largest Corporates, 2017, pp 159-170 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The real estate sector is one of the pillars of the Singapore economy. Construction and ownership of dwellings accounted for 4.1% and 4.9% of the 2015 GDP at current prices, aggregating 9.2%. The share of these two sectors has progressively increased to 9.2% in 2015 from 8.3% in 2011. Home ownership rate of resident households has progressively peaked to 92% in 2000 from 58.8% in 1980 and has slightly moderated to 90.3% in 2014. Nevertheless, Singapore has among the highest home ownership rates in the world.

Keywords: Singapore; Blue Chips; Large Caps; Straits Times Index; STI; Temasek; Stock Performance; Stock Investment; Stock Return; Singapore Banks; DBS; UOB; OCBC; Singapore Real Estate; CapitaLand; SingTel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G20 G30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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