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Munshi Ahmed | Bloomberg | Getty Images (17 Mar) Singapore's new home sales jumped in February, but the gains likely don't signal an end of the sector's downtrend. February's 28 percent sales jump from a month earlier was largely due to developers launching only two projects in January, with one of those getting a "lukewarm"... 

Land now accounts for 60 per cent of total development costs in Singapore, Morgan Stanley says. Photo: AFP (18 March)   The decline in profit margins at Hong Kong developers is not unique to the city, as property firms on the mainland and in Singapore also face pressure on margins from the rising cost of land, construction... 

Have you ever wondered.... What percentage of the increase in the resident labour force of 260,800 from 2007 to June 2013 against the estimated 451,934 new citizens and new PRs granted in the 7 years were Singaporeans? Do you know that the real median income change from 2008 to 2013 was only 1.0 per cent per annum, for...