The business is so great that government has turned cautious on the sustenance of the current phenomena.With the local economy continues to work itself out of the shadow of financial downturn and H1N1 flu, the Singapore property market has been doing brisk business.Past two years has seen a flurry of buying activities and bullish developers have been assaulting our senses with their incessant advertisements on a daily basis, all hawking for our attention on their properties.
There is no doubt that the experience of the mid-nineties 'boom and bust cycle is still fresh in the administration' s mind. To move with our experience, that the government is ready all the stops to ensure it would not be repeated in the near future.
There are actually a few tools at Singapore government's disposal to better handle any similar incident. Among them are land supply decision, money supply tightening and tax policies. We are about to tell you how this individual measure works and how effective it can put the overheated market under control.
As a result, speculation of newly built property would cut down drastically.Land Supply Decision - Government is the biggest land owner in this island and when they do decide to cut down land supply for development, it will have a direct impact on the property market. Developers would have nowhere to turn to for the building of their luxury properties and correspondingly minimize the new launches.
Credit crunch - popular story is that in the area of real estate that a comprehensive assessment of the credit market is in full swing. The maximum loan quantum is 90 percent of the value of the property. If the government takes a decision to make it to 80 percent or even lower, hit the entire market hard.
Capital Gains Tax - This is a tax derived from the profit obtained from the sales of property. When this taxation is applied, it will treat profit as income and subject to the prevailing tax rate at either individual or corporate level. Government introduced capital gains tax at the height of nineties property boom but has since abolished it. If this is brought back into the fray, it is expected demand would be slowed down significantly and will be effective to discourage speculation as profit would be reduced.
Property Tax - Another effective way to deal with an overheating market is to raise the property tax. Again based on reduced profit psychology, speculative activities could be significantly reduced due to the perceived small profit.
Double Stamp Duty - changes in legislation may require the buyer and the seller pay stamp duty. Currently, the stamp tax applies only to the buyer. When operating on both sides, it is hoped that the vendors were speculators / sell restrained free / commercial space.
But it is still early to tell if the current property interest is genuine and thus sustainable or if really another bubble in the making.These are just some of the measures that government can use in its attempt to put the property market under control. - 23210
There is no doubt that the experience of the mid-nineties 'boom and bust cycle is still fresh in the administration' s mind. To move with our experience, that the government is ready all the stops to ensure it would not be repeated in the near future.
There are actually a few tools at Singapore government's disposal to better handle any similar incident. Among them are land supply decision, money supply tightening and tax policies. We are about to tell you how this individual measure works and how effective it can put the overheated market under control.
As a result, speculation of newly built property would cut down drastically.Land Supply Decision - Government is the biggest land owner in this island and when they do decide to cut down land supply for development, it will have a direct impact on the property market. Developers would have nowhere to turn to for the building of their luxury properties and correspondingly minimize the new launches.
Credit crunch - popular story is that in the area of real estate that a comprehensive assessment of the credit market is in full swing. The maximum loan quantum is 90 percent of the value of the property. If the government takes a decision to make it to 80 percent or even lower, hit the entire market hard.
Capital Gains Tax - This is a tax derived from the profit obtained from the sales of property. When this taxation is applied, it will treat profit as income and subject to the prevailing tax rate at either individual or corporate level. Government introduced capital gains tax at the height of nineties property boom but has since abolished it. If this is brought back into the fray, it is expected demand would be slowed down significantly and will be effective to discourage speculation as profit would be reduced.
Property Tax - Another effective way to deal with an overheating market is to raise the property tax. Again based on reduced profit psychology, speculative activities could be significantly reduced due to the perceived small profit.
Double Stamp Duty - changes in legislation may require the buyer and the seller pay stamp duty. Currently, the stamp tax applies only to the buyer. When operating on both sides, it is hoped that the vendors were speculators / sell restrained free / commercial space.
But it is still early to tell if the current property interest is genuine and thus sustainable or if really another bubble in the making.These are just some of the measures that government can use in its attempt to put the property market under control. - 23210
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