Tag: luxury homes

The past quarter has been pretty eventful for the property market. For instance, February recorded the highest number of million-dollar HDB resale flats sold in a month. And last month in March, we saw the highest sales of luxury homes sold in a month since November 2013.  546 units were sold in the Core Central…

Unlike most of his fellow tech billionaires — including a few here in Singapore — Apple CEO Tim Cook has never been one for ostentatious real estate. By all reports, he still lives in the relatively humble Palo Alto home he purchased for US$1.9 million in 2010, not long before he began his tenure in…

Musician, streetwear entrepreneur, potential 2024 US presidential candidate and self-professed “creative genius,” Kanye West has purchased a US$57.3 million house on California’s Malibu Beach, it was reported this week. The brutalist concrete residence, which was designed by top Japanese architect Tadao Ando, was built to the specifications of financier and art collector Richard Sachs, the…

Prices for luxury homes in Singapore haven’t been this low since the 2009 economic crisis. The probable culprit? Last year’s cooling measures: Prices for private residences fell 0.6 per cent as of last month, sharper than the 0.1 per cent observed over the previous quarter. Luxury homes plunged further than others, falling 2.9 per cent;…