Grace Leong

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Grace Leong

SINGAPORE – New private home sales slipped to 729 units in March from the 1,597 units sold in February, due to a lack of mega launches compared to a more active launch pipeline in the first two months of the year. Excluding executive condominiums, just 555 new units were launched in March, compared with the 1,694 units in February. As a result, month-on-month private new home sales fell 54.4 per cent in March, but were up 1.5 per cent year-on-year from the 718 units sold in March 2024.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Grace Leong

SINGAPORE – CleanHood, a new initiative to get schools and community businesses within estates to keep their neighbourhoods clean, was announced by Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu at the launch of the annual Keep Singapore Clean 2025 campaign in Sentosa on April 13.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Grace Leong

SINGAPORE – Subsales gained traction in 2024 as more opportunistic sellers cashed in on a strong price run-up in the past five years and sold their condominiums before completion, earning an average profit of around $270,000, data from OrangeTee Group showed. Typically, a condo project takes three to four years to complete. However, the pandemic spawned delays and disruptions in the construction industry, causing a number of projects to take a much longer time to finish.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Grace Leong

1 day agoWhat do Tina Turner, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, and James Baldwin have in common? They got the f--- out. They didn’t wait for America to get better. They packed up and left. Some left to escape racism. Others left to build lives where they could be seen as artists, thinkers, and human beings—not …

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Grace Leong

SINGAPORE - Businesses will urgently need to look at compliance, supply chain risk, and how best to engage with government officials in countries they operate, said the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) in the wake of sweeping US tariffs that took effect over the weekend rocking the global economy and sparking recession fears.