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Supermarkets lock horns for coveted HDB retail spaces

Smaller supermarket players such as Hao Mart are facing off against giants like Sheng Siong in a race to set up shop in new Housing and Development Board (HDB) supermarket spaces.

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Supermarkets lock horns for coveted HDB retail spaces

Smaller supermarket players such as Hao Mart are facing off against giants like Sheng Siong in a race to set up shop in new Housing and Development Board (HDB) supermarket spaces.

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Check out these hot co-living spaces in Singapore

Easycity offers rates for as low as $800 per month.

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Singapore's foreign workers left in limbo amidst tighter manpower rules

The foreign worker quota in the services sector will be cut as finance minister Heng notes that the growth in S-pass services holders hit a five-year high in 2018.

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Here's why Singapore couldn't top global transport satisfaction rankings

Almost 3 in 5 Singaporeans find it more stressful to use public transport.

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Business expansion created 26,500 jobs in 2018

ICT roles such as chief information officers, database designers & administrators and IT security specialists were in hot demand.

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Singapore is 3rd most vulnerable APAC country to Chinese trade decline

The city trails Hong Kong and Mongolia.

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Local buyers account for 76.6% of home purchases in 2018

Seven in 10 or 67.5% of the transactions were priced below $1.5m.

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Private residential property stock nearly hit 370,000 units in 2018

Big projects like Kingsford Waterbay and North Park Residences received their TOPs in Q4.

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Bike-sharing firms hit a dead end in Singapore

But homegrown startups like SG Bike and Anywheel are picking up the slack after the retreat of Chinese bike-sharing unicorns from the market.

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Auction listings surged 35% to 1,088 in 2018

It was spurred by the increase in residential and industrial listings, as well as mortgagee sales put up by banks.

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Condo purchases by foreign buyers crashed 20.9% to 1,212 units in 2018

Mainland Chinese transacted 4 in 10 condo purchases.

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Landed home sales fell 5.8% to 1,780 in 2018

310 homes were sold in District 19.

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Cash is still king in Singapore as reluctant elders shun mobile apps

Security concerns in using mobile banking apps rose from 34% in 2017 to 41% in 2018.

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Could an airport REIT finance Singapore's massive infrastructure ambitions?

Monetising the first three terminals could command market capitalisation near $10b.

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17% of the world's ultra-rich want new homes in Singapore

This is despite the 9.1% price growth in the city’s luxury properties.

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Hyflux woes see no end as PUB warns takeover of Tuaspring plant

Tuaspring struggled to keep the plant ‘reliably operational’ to deliver the required desalinated water.

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Singapore PMI down 0.3 point to 50.4 in February

It hit the sixth month of decline due to slower growth in new orders, exports, and factory output.

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