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Average CBD Grade A office rents jumped 12.6% to hit 10-year high in Q2

Average CBD Grade A office rents jumped 12.6% to hit 10-year high in Q2

Rates in Beach Road/Bugis Area rose 18% to $9.18 psf pm.

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Banks' loan growth could hit 5% by end-2019

A slew of enbloc and infrastructure projects will boost lending activities.

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Singapore is expats' top pick for relocation: study

Healthcare and tech sectors are the most desirable industries, according to respondents.

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How The Great Room is riding on Asia's co-working wave

It targets established, value-sensitive corporates that make up the fastest growing segment in Asia.

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Love, Bonito to open largest physical store in Funan

The shop will have instagrammable spots, an express e-commerce counter, and on-demand stylists.

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Digital consumers power up Singapore's big three banks

DBS and OCBC generate twice or thice as much revenue from digital retail and SME customers than traditional customers, on average.

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Retail property investment sales jumped 52% to $961m in Q2

Chinatown Point was sold for $520m or $2,450 psf NLA.

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Headline inflation could average 0.9% in 2019

Sluggish retail sales and the appreciating SGD have limited price gains.

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NODX down 17.3% in June

Electronic NODX contracted 31.9% YoY.

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Singapore GDP growth to fall to 0.9% by end-2019 as technical recession risks loom

MAS might soon intervene and ease monetary policy.

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Billion-dollar office deals buoy property investments in Q2

The biggest deal was AEW’s $1b purchase of Chevron House.

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Hospitality sector's RevPAR to grow 2-3% in 2019

RevPAR for luxury hotels grew 3.3% YoY to $185 for 5M19.

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Singapore's fintech invasion has no end in sight

About 43% of fintechs in Southeast Asia choose Singapore as their home as growth prospects in the city strengthen.

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Can retail underdogs take a bigger bite of Singapore's online grocery pie?

Despite only holding less than 7% grocery market share in 2017, RedMart and FairPrice will dominate the market in few years time.

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What Singapore got right in urban mobility

It also has some points it can improve on, according to global policy experts.

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Singapore's infrastructure gap expected to be one of the world's smallest by 2040

By then, the country’s infrastructure gap is tipped to hit US$400m compared to the global gap of $19t.

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Virtual banks pose threat to Singapore's small and foreign lenders

However, the tech upstarts hardly pose a challenge to the Big Three.

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