The start of 2023 saw a slow start in Singapore’s real estate investment market, with only $4.2 billion in recorded sales in the first quarter, according to the global real estate company Knight Frank. This marked a 61% decrease when compared to first quarter of 2022. It is also the lowest q-o-q total since 2Q2020, when the government imposed the “circuit breaker” due to the pandemic.
Residential investment totaled $1.6 billion during the first quarter of 2023, with the notable collective sales for Meyer Park, Bagnall Court and Holland Tower amounting to $583.8 million. The sale of Holland Tower is the first successful residential en bloc transaction in the Core Central Region (CCR) since property cooling measures were imposed in December 2021, marking a return of investment interest in prime locations, according to Chia Mein Mein, head of capital markets (land & collective sale) at Knight …